designing-frontend

designing-frontend is a skill for Claude Code from dork-labs/dorkos. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,055 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for making frontend design decisions with the Calm Tech visual language, including spacing, hierarchy, motion, and interface density.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan screens, review designs, and decide how content areas, control surfaces, typography, spacing, and visual depth should work.
Why use it?
It gives teams a shared way to judge what an interface should feel and look like before implementation details are chosen.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the flow plugin — 32 skills, 43 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan screens, review designs, and decide how content areas, control surfaces, typography, spacing, and visual depth should work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dork-labs/dorkos/designing-frontend
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 dork-labs/dorkos --skill designing-frontend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dork-labs/dorkos

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 43 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,055 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 $0.00045 $0.03055
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01528
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00611
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00305

Measured 10d ago against content hash 927fff75855d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

designing-frontend 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 10d 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.

.agents/skills/designing-frontend/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Frontend Design: Calm Tech Design Language

This skill guides design thinking and decision-making for frontend interfaces. It focuses on the what and why of design, not the implementation details.

For implementation (how to code it): Use the styling-with-tailwind-shadcn skill.

Design Philosophy: Calm Tech

Our design system embraces "Calm Tech" — interfaces that feel sophisticated, spacious, and effortless.

Core Principles

  1. Clarity over decoration — Every element earns its place
  2. Soft depth over flat — Subtle shadows and layers create hierarchy without noise
  3. Generous space on content surfaces — Breathing room makes content shine; control surfaces run dense (see below)
  4. Micro-delight — Thoughtful animations that feel tactile and responsive

Two Spatial Modes

"Generous space" is a content rule. Control surfaces follow density instead.

Content surface Control surface
Examples Pages, cards, empty states, reading views Sidebars, toolbars, list panes, menus, table rows
Body text 15–16px 13px, metadata 11px
Row height 28–32px (4px-grid multiples)
Inset 16–24px and up 16px total, panel edge to first glyph
Panel width 240–280px for nav sidebars

The test: does the user operate this surface many times an hour, or read it? Operating wants density; reading wants air.

Density is not noise — a compact nav fits about 1.5x more items in the same space and reads calmer, because the eye travels less. The failure this rule prevents is real: "generous space" read without the nuance produced a sidebar with a 30px left inset (12px container + 8px section + 10px row). Budget the inset once. Never stack container + section + row padding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 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. 10d ago First seen · 276 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 927fff75855d

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designing-frontend is a skill published in the GitHub repository dork-labs/dorkos (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,055 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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