dark-mode-design-expert

dark-mode-design-expert is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (7,871 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing dark user interfaces, including themes inspired by weather, skies, and oceans, with attention to readability, accessibility, and different screen types.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan dark color systems, theme switching, atmospheric styling, OLED-friendly interfaces, battery-conscious themes, and accessible dark components.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common dark-mode problems such as weak contrast, unclear layers, excessive glare, and themes that do not adapt well between light and dark settings.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the dark-mode-design-expert plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan dark color systems, theme switching, atmospheric styling, OLED-friendly interfaces, battery-conscious themes, and accessible dark components.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/dark-mode-design-expert
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 curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill dark-mode-design-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dark-mode-design-expert, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,871 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00047 $0.07871
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.03936
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01574
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00787

Measured 11d ago against content hash afb26737fba4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dark-mode-design-expert 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 11d 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.

.claude/skills/dark-mode-design-expert/SKILL.md · 875 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 875 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dark Mode Design Expert

Master dark mode UI design with atmospheric theming, WCAG accessibility, and cross-platform best practices. Specializes in weather/sky/ocean-inspired color systems that adapt to time of day and environmental conditions.

When to Use This Skill

Activate on:

  • "dark mode", "dark theme", "night mode"
  • "theme switching", "light/dark toggle"
  • "atmospheric UI", "weather theme", "sky gradient"
  • "OLED optimization", "battery-friendly dark"
  • "elevation in dark mode", "surface layering"
  • "prefers-color-scheme", "color-scheme CSS"
  • "contrast ratios dark mode", "accessibility dark theme"

NOT for:

  • General color palette creation → color-theory-palette-harmony-expert
  • Typography and font selection → typography-expert
  • Component library architecture → design-system-creator
  • Contrast auditing of specific colors → color-contrast-auditor

The Science of Dark Mode

Why Dark Mode Exists

Factor Light Mode Dark Mode Winner
OLED Battery 100% baseline 39-47% savings at max brightness Dark
Low Light Comfort Eye strain, fatigue Reduced glare Dark
Bright Environment Better readability Washed out Light
Astigmatism Users Easier to read Halation effect Light
Focus/Immersion Standard Content pops forward Dark
Sleep Hygiene Blue light exposure Reduced blue light Dark

Key Insight: Dark mode isn't universally better—it's contextually better. The best systems respect user preference AND adapt to environment.

Contrast Requirements (WCAG 2.1)

Element Type Minimum Ratio Target Ratio Notes
Body text 4.5:1 7:1+ AAA preferred for readability
Large text (≥24px) 3:1 4.5:1+ Headlines, hero text
UI components 3:1 4.5:1+ Borders, icons, focus rings
Disabled elements None required 2.5:1 UX consideration
Decorative None required - Pure aesthetic elements

Read the full file on GitHub · 875 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 875 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A afb26737fba4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dark-mode-design-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (219 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 7,871 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 2026-08-30.

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