chromatic-diff

chromatic-diff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daangn/seed-design. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,769 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A diagnostic workflow for explaining why a Chromatic visual test changed. Chromatic is a service that compares screenshots of UI stories across builds.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for investigating changed Chromatic builds, locating affected Storybook stories, and deciding whether a difference is a real change or a flaky test.
Why use it?
It turns a picture difference into a likely cause by comparing the rendered page, structure, styles, and design tokens from both builds.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for investigating changed Chromatic builds, locating affected Storybook stories, and deciding whether a difference is a real change or a flaky test.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daangn/seed-design/chromatic-diff
About the project

SEED is a design system that provides shared visual tokens, styling recipes, and UI components for React, iOS, Android, and Lynx, with Figma integration. It is used to build consistent products across platforms; the catalogue add-ons support agents working with its components, tools, documentation, and development workflows.

daangn/seed-design · 1,186 stars · on GitHub · seed-design.io

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 daangn/seed-design --skill chromatic-diff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daangn/seed-design

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,769 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 $0.00026 $0.02769
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.01108
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00554
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00277

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 910fe53caff1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chromatic-diff 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/api.ts, scripts/preflight.ts, scripts/proxy.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/chromatic-diff/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chromatic Diff Investigation

Chromatic tells you that a snapshot changed. It does not tell you why. This skill closes that gap: it resolves a Chromatic URL into the two builds being compared, puts both published Storybooks on localhost, and renders the same story from each so the difference can be read as structure, computed style, and token values rather than pixels.

Working from the rendered page rather than the snapshot image matters, because the useful answers are named things — "the dark-theme surface token changed", "this element gained a wrapper", "both builds render identically, so the snapshot is flaky". A pixel diff cannot say any of those.

How far you are allowed to go

Read this before the workflow. The steps below assume three things are present, and which of them this session actually has decides how much of the workflow exists for you:

What is missing How far this skill goes
CHROMATIC_TOKEN Nowhere. Nothing else authenticates this API. Say it is missing, point at references/token.md, stop.
Bun Nowhere. Say Bun is not installed, stop.
a chrome-devtools driver, meaning the MCP tools or the CLI Steps 1 and 2. Report those, name the gap, stop.
nothing Steps 1 through 5.

Finishing the investigation is not the goal; a trustworthy answer is.

One row admits an exception. Bun installed but unreachable from PATH is an environment quirk rather than a missing capability, so finding the binary and calling it by absolute path is fine, provided the answer says you did it. Step 0 detects the situation and prints OFF PATH into the env: line for exactly that reason. Bun genuinely absent from the machine is the row above.

Do not route around a missing piece

Two workarounds sit within reach, and neither is the fallback:

  • Playwright, Puppeteer, or headless Chrome launched from a shell — step 4's checks are written against the chrome-devtools tool surface, and an improvised driver drops them without saying so.
  • Chromatic's own comparison images — the one substitution that changes what the answer rests on, so it is refused whatever else is present. A run that stopped reports what it has instead of filling the gap with pixels.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 2mo ago Changed · -141 tokens per session 910fe53caff1
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 149 lines · 167 tokens per session scan A 48ccc6bfe608

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chromatic-diff is a skill published in the GitHub repository daangn/seed-design (1,186 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,769 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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