dev-frontend-design

dev-frontend-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from christopherlouet/claude-base. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,620 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing distinctive frontend interfaces with a deliberate visual direction before writing the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating landing pages, visual components, dashboards, or other interfaces that need a defined art direction.
Why use it?
It helps avoid generic-looking interfaces by making choices about typography, colour, layout, and visual style explicit first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/christopherlouet/claude-base/dev-frontend-design
Any agent
npx skills add christopherlouet/claude-base --skill dev-frontend-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherlouet/claude-base

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 1,620 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00045 $0.01620
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00810
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00324
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00162

Measured yesterday against content hash 65b26ff42299, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-frontend-design scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/dev-frontend-design/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Frontend Design with Art Direction

Principle

AI-generated interfaces all look alike. Inter/Roboto typography, blue/purple palette, rounded cards, same visual rhythm. To stand out, you must commit to an art direction before writing any code.

Mandatory workflow

1. Check the direction in CLAUDE.md

Read the project's CLAUDE.md to find a Style: directive:

## Design Direction
Style: terminal    # or cockpit, vitality, editorial, glass, signal

If found, strictly apply the direction (see rule .claude/rules/design-style.md).

2. If no direction is defined — ASK

Before coding, ask the user:

No art direction is defined in CLAUDE.md. Before coding, choose a direction:

  • terminal: monospace, black/neon green, sharp edges (for dev tools, web CLI)
  • cockpit: dense, multi-panels, real-time indicators (for dashboards, monitoring)
  • vitality: colorful, animated, generously rounded (for B2C apps, gamified)
  • editorial: serif, airy, paper/ivory (for blogs, long form)
  • glass: glassmorphism, gradients, depth (for premium modern apps)
  • signal: minimal, gray/white, dense utilitarian (for productivity tools)

Fonts — what to ban

Forbidden (overused by AI):

  • Inter, Roboto, Arial, Space Grotesk
  • Helvetica (unless explicit editorial direction)

Prefer depending on the direction:

Direction Recommended fonts
terminal JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, IBM Plex Mono, Berkeley Mono
cockpit DM Sans, Geist, IBM Plex Sans + Geist Mono for numbers
vitality Nunito, Plus Jakarta Sans, Bricolage Grotesque, Instrument Serif
editorial Playfair Display, Lora, Merriweather, Fraunces + Inter-like sans-serif
glass Geist, SF Pro, Neue Haas Grotesk
signal Geist Mono, IBM Plex Mono, system-ui

IMPORTANT: If no direction is chosen and the user refuses to choose one, use Geist (modern neutral) but NEVER Inter/Roboto.

Colors — banish the generic

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 159 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 65b26ff42299

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dev-frontend-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository christopherlouet/claude-base (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,620 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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