frontend-design

frontend-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from douglance/sdlc-plugin. It costs 25 tokens per session (2,519 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building or restyling a polished web interface with deliberate visual direction and production-quality details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create user-facing web pages and components, choose an art direction, define consistent styling, design interactions and failures, and verify the rendered result.
Why use it?
It helps prevent generic layouts and overlooked states by requiring attention to users, brand context, design tokens, accessibility, performance, and visual review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sdlc plugin — 30 skills, 1 plugin shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/douglance/sdlc-plugin/frontend-design
Any agent
npx skills add douglance/sdlc-plugin --skill frontend-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/douglance/sdlc-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills, 1 plugin.

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agentmods badge for frontend-design

README.md
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,519 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00025 $0.02519
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01260
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00504
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00252

Measured 4d ago against content hash 59cb65c6bd3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frontend-design 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 4d 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/frontend-design/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create an interface that feels authored by a strong human designer, not averaged from template patterns. In order:

  1. Understand the context — purpose, users, framework, performance budget, accessibility requirements, brand anchors (adjectives, references, taboos). Check the project's existing design system / component library before authoring custom markup. Ask only for what blocks correct execution.
  2. Commit to a specific art direction — derive it from the subject, then execute it with precision. Bold maximalism and refined minimalism both work; intentionality is mandatory. Do not force novelty through arbitrary extremity, and do not let unrelated briefs converge on the same theme, fonts, palette, layout, assets, or energy.
  3. Invent a signature element — one unforgettable hook that is functional, not decorative.
  4. Define design tokens before layout — all styling flows from tokens.
  5. Build to the hard rules below (typography, color, layout, motion, texture) with every interaction state and failure path designed.
  6. Run the final quality gate — if any check fails, the output is invalid. Then verify visually per the visual-design skill: render, screenshot, judge the whole composition.

Deliver: an art-direction brief (direction, type pairing, palette logic, motion grammar, material choice), complete runnable code matching the requested scope, and extension notes on growing tokens/components/states without breaking coherence.

Art directions (inspiration only — never a menu to rotate through)

Editorial magazine (asymmetric grids, typographic authority, dramatic whitespace) · Neo-brutalist industrial (hard edges, utilitarian labels, raw materials) · Luxury refined (restraint, premium materials, invisible complexity) · Retro-futurist CRT (scanlines, angular geometry, phosphor glow) · Organic tactile (paper grain, irregular shapes, handmade warmth) · Punk zine (collage energy, raw texture, deliberate imperfection) · Bauhaus precision (geometric discipline, functional clarity, primary colors) · Psychedelic surreal (controlled chaos, vivid contrast, fluid forms).

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 4d ago First seen · 138 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 59cb65c6bd3b

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frontend-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository douglance/sdlc-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 2,519 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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