designer

designer is a skill for Claude Code from donald-ada/workinggenius. It costs 79 tokens per session (2,235 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-planning skill for user interfaces that settles the visual direction before implementation and records the chosen style in DESIGN.md.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when work includes an interface that people will see. It helps compare an existing style or reference with the desired change, settle the design language, and document it.
Why use it?
It prevents an interface from defaulting to an arbitrary look and makes the visual decisions explicit before developers build the pixels.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the workinggenius plugin — 23 skills, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when work includes an interface that people will see. It helps compare an existing style or reference with the desired change, settle the design language, and document it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/donald-ada/workinggenius/designer
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 donald-ada/workinggenius --skill designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/donald-ada/workinggenius

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workinggenius, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,235 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 $0.00079 $0.02235
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00894
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00447
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00224

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 99d8ed60b165, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

designer 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 1mo 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.

skills/designer/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Designer

UI built without a style conversation wears the model's default aesthetic — the look it would produce for any product, chosen for none. Taste is the fork that belongs most completely to the user's world, and the one the momentum of building never stops to ask about.

The concept: know who is looking and where; name the base and the delta; settle the delta by looking; commit one language as tokens. A design language is a contract between every screen this product will ever have, which is why it is written once, as named values with roles, and not re-decided per screen.

The discipline

  • Audience and context come before taste. Who uses this, on what, for how long, in what state of mind — a nurse glancing at a phone between patients, an analyst at a desk for eight hours — decides density, type size, motion budget and contrast before anyone has an opinion about colors. Ask it first, in one exchange, because a delta chosen against the wrong audience is a beautiful mistake.

  • Then the base — and how much of it survives. An existing surface, a brand guide, a style the user names, or nothing. Nothing is the ordinary case, not the gap to fill: with no base, the directions are drawn from the problem itself (below), because a template reached for when nobody asked for one is a default wearing a name. The 13 shipped bases in this skill's bases/ folder (minimal, editorial, neobrutalism, glassmorphism, neumorphism, bento, mono, retro, neon, paper, premium, corporate, claymorphism; vendored MIT from awesome-design-skills, trimmed to their foundations and tokens) are the fast path when the user names one of those looks: delta zero is adopting, one exchange about the base and no directions drawn. The floor and the critic still run, because a shipped base's tokens are not guaranteed to pass (mono's text on its surface is 3.82:1). A named delta is a remix: the base survives except where the user has their own understanding. Cost follows the delta; a shipped base is a starting token set, and the language is the delta written down.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 1mo ago Changed 99d8ed60b165
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines · +10 tokens per session dd8ffecda05f
  3. 1mo ago Changed 3ff7b2a501ca
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  5. 2mo ago Changed · +59 lines · +17 tokens per session d34a39aeac21
  6. 2mo ago First seen · 21 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A cdda03370b1f

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designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository donald-ada/workinggenius (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 2,235 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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