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.
npx skills add cuellarfr/design-skills --skill design-elevationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cuellarfr/design-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cuellarfr/design-skills/design-elevation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cuellarfr/design-skills/design-elevation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cuellarfr/design-skills/design-elevation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00122 | $0.02757 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00061 | $0.01378 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00551 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00276 |
Grade A, and why
design-elevation 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Design Elevation System
This skill transforms functional visual outputs into polished, professional designs by applying systematic design thinking and refinement protocols.
Design Philosophy
Follow Alla Kholmatova's design systems framework: every design decision is either a functional pattern (what users interact with — structure, layout, components) or a perceptual pattern (how it feels — color, typography, spacing, motion). Both layers must be intentional.
Canonical Design Tokens: Tailwind CSS
All design decisions should map to Tailwind CSS as the shared design language. This means:
- Colors from Tailwind's palette (gray, blue, emerald, amber, rose, violet, etc.)
- Spacing from Tailwind's scale (1 = 0.25rem/4px, 2 = 0.5rem/8px, 4 = 1rem/16px, etc.)
- Typography from Tailwind's type scale (text-xs through text-9xl)
- Border radius from Tailwind's system (rounded-sm through rounded-2xl)
- Shadows from Tailwind's elevation (shadow-sm through shadow-2xl)
When writing CSS or HTML, use Tailwind utility classes. When defining design tokens for other formats (presentations, documents), translate Tailwind values into the target medium.
Activation Protocol
When creating ANY visual output:
- Start with function — Create a working version first
- Define functional patterns — What does the user interact with? What's the structure? Use
references/grid-systems.md - Define perceptual patterns — How should it feel? What's the personality? Use
references/elevation-protocol.md - Apply interrogation — Question every default choice using
references/design-interrogation.md - Elevate with techniques — Use specific moves from
references/technique-catalog.md - Polish data visualizations — If any charts/data, apply
references/data-visualization.md - Final check — Ensure output feels hand-crafted, not templated
Functional Patterns by Output Type
For Presentations (PPTX)
- Start with information hierarchy, not decoration
- Apply grid systems from
references/grid-systems.md - One idea per slide — if it needs two ideas, it needs two slides
- Build complexity gradually across the slide sequence
What ships with it
14 files 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.
- references/carbon-design-system.md 18 KB
- references/color-systems.md 11 KB
- references/data-visualization.md 17 KB
- references/design-exemplars.md 13 KB
- references/design-interrogation.md 7.3 KB
- references/elevation-protocol.md 9.9 KB
- references/grid-systems.md 8.9 KB
- references/lightning-design-system.md 39 KB
- references/modus-design-system.md 16 KB
- references/polaris-design-system.md 40 KB
- references/spacing-systems.md 9.7 KB
- references/spectrum-design-system.md 32 KB
- references/technique-catalog.md 11 KB
- references/typography-scales.md 7.8 KB
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 220 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A cdda464e0ec5
design-elevation is a skill published in the GitHub repository cuellarfr/design-skills (54 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,757 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.
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