design-philosophy

design-philosophy is a skill for Claude Code from connerkward/ckw-design-skill. It costs 42 tokens per session (397 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for directing the visual style of frontend work, especially high-concept projects and campaigns. It helps define a named artistic movement and express it through layout, color, materials, scale, rhythm, and visual hierarchy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a visual philosophy, write a design manifesto, or guide an unmistakable art-like frontend aesthetic.
Why use it?
It gives an artistic project a clear visual direction instead of leaving each design choice disconnected or generic. It also keeps text brief so the design carries more of the message.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ckw-design plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a visual philosophy, write a design manifesto, or guide an unmistakable art-like frontend aesthetic.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/connerkward/ckw-design-skill/design-philosophy
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.

Any agent
npx skills add connerkward/ckw-design-skill --skill design-philosophy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/connerkward/ckw-design-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ckw-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for design-philosophy

README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 397 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.00397
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 9d ago against content hash 724369f28494, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-philosophy 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 9d ago.

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.

design-philosophy/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Design philosophy

Apply with design for high-concept work, campaigns, or when the user asks for a visual philosophy, manifesto, or art-like aesthetic. This skill guides creating a named movement and expressing it visually.

Visual philosophy (when creating "art" or high-concept work)

  1. Name the movement (1–2 words): e.g. "Brutalist Joy," "Chromatic Silence," "Metabolist Dreams."
  2. Articulate in 4–6 paragraphs how the philosophy manifests through: space and form; color and material; scale and rhythm; composition and balance; visual hierarchy. Avoid redundancy; each aspect once.
  3. Craftsmanship: Stress that the work should look meticulously crafted, labored over with care, the product of deep expertise — "painstaking attention," "master-level execution." Repeat this framing.
  4. Minimal text: Information lives in design, not paragraphs. Text sparse and essential; integrated as visual element.
  5. Creative space: Be specific about direction but concise so the executor can make high-level interpretive choices with the same level of craft.

For philosophy examples, see reference.md. The numbered checklist above is the canonical generation procedure.

Deducing the subtle reference

Before building: identify one subtle conceptual thread from the request. The topic is a subtle, niche reference embedded in the work — not literal, always sophisticated. Someone familiar with the subject should feel it intuitively; others experience a strong abstract composition. Weave it into form, color, and composition. "Jazz quote" principle: only those who know catch it; everyone benefits.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 24 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 724369f28494

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-philosophy is a skill published in the GitHub repository connerkward/ckw-design-skill (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 397 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 2026-08-31.

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