design

design is a skill for Codex from dyeoman2/tanstack-start-template. It costs 88 tokens per session (953 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for building and restyling TanStack Start pages and React components while following the repository’s existing patterns. It covers page layouts, visual systems, interactions, and browser-based checking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refine marketing pages, dashboards, admin screens, logged-in app views, layouts, spacing, responsive behavior, and interaction states.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague design requests into consistent decisions without breaking the project’s routing, styling, or reusable interface components.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to refine marketing pages, dashboards, admin screens, logged-in app views, layouts, spacing, responsive behavior, and interaction states.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dyeoman2/tanstack-start-template/design
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 dyeoman2/tanstack-start-template --skill design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dyeoman2/tanstack-start-template

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 953 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 $0.00088 $0.00953
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00381
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00095

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 536289a026f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

.codex/skills/design/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design

Use this skill to turn vague frontend requests into repo-compatible design decisions. Apply the article's emphasis on clear art direction, explicit constraints, strong hierarchy, and browser verification without replacing the repo's existing routing, token, shadcn, or copy patterns.

Workflow

  1. Read references/repo-ui-patterns.md before changing page-level layout, tokens, or visual tone.
  2. Classify the surface before coding:
    • marketing or auth
    • authenticated app, admin, or operational workspace
  3. Write a compact internal brief with:
    • visual thesis
    • content plan
    • interaction thesis
    • hard constraints
  4. Keep the first viewport organized around one clear composition. Do not default to a generic grid of disconnected cards unless the surface is truly data-dense.
  5. Implement with existing route, feature, and UI primitive boundaries.
  6. Verify in the browser and refine spacing, hierarchy, responsive behavior, and states after the first pass.

Surface Rules

Marketing and Auth

  • Allow more visual expressiveness than the app shell.
  • Prefer one strong composition above the fold: headline, supporting proof, and one primary action.
  • Use real product copy, not design commentary.
  • Add imagery only when it clarifies the offer. Decorative texture alone is not a visual anchor.
  • Preserve the repo's existing public-route pattern when creating or reshaping top-level marketing pages.

App, Admin, and Operations

  • Default to utility copy over marketing copy.
  • Start with the working surface itself: KPIs, filters, tables, status, tasks, or current context.
  • Do not add a hero section unless the user explicitly asks for one.
  • Give each section one job: orient, explain status, show data, or enable action.
  • Keep motion sparse and purposeful. Orientation and clarity come before flourish.

Repo Guardrails

  • Preserve the existing shadcn and Tailwind variable approach. Extend the system before inventing a new one.
  • Prefer composing from ~/components/ui/* before creating new primitives.
  • Reuse cn() and existing variant patterns for class composition.
  • Keep global token work in src/styles/app.css. Prefer adjusting CSS variables or section-level styling over hard-coded one-off palettes.
  • Avoid global font swaps, dramatic visual rebrands, or wholesale restyling unless the user explicitly asks for them.
  • Preserve TanStack Start route boundaries, pending states, and error boundaries.
  • Keep UI components pure. Put business logic in hooks, Convex hooks, or server modules.
  • Use ~/ aliases and static imports.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 82 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 536289a026f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design is a skill published in the GitHub repository dyeoman2/tanstack-start-template (26 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 953 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-01.

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