color-scale

color-scale is a skill for Claude Code from dylantarre/design-system-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,118 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A color-palette generator that turns a brand color into an 11-step scale, from very light to very dark. It can also create matching neutral and meaning-based colors such as success or warning colors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building color tokens for a new interface, light and dark themes, or a Tailwind, CSS, or JSON color system.
Why use it?
It removes the need to choose every shade by hand while keeping a project’s colors consistent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the design-system-skills plugin — 29 skills shipped together

Good fit Building color tokens for a new interface, light and dark themes, or a Tailwind, CSS, or JSON color system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dylantarre/design-system-skills/color-scale
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 dylantarre/design-system-skills --skill color-scale
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dylantarre/design-system-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-system-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for color-scale

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,118 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 $0.00049 $0.01118
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00559
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00112

Measured 12d ago against content hash ab17ab302e09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

color-scale 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (algorithm.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/tokens/color-scale/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Color Scale Generator

Overview

Generate perceptually uniform 11-step color scales (50-950) from any base color. Includes auto-generated neutral and semantic colors harmonized with the brand.

When to Use

  • Starting a new project needing a color system
  • Adding brand colors to an existing palette
  • Building light/dark theme tokens
  • Converting a single hex to a full scale

Quick Reference

Step Lightness Typical Use
50 97% Subtle backgrounds
100 93% Hover states on light
200 87% Borders, dividers
300 78% Disabled states
400 65% Placeholder text
500 55% Primary brand color
600 45% Hover on dark
700 37% Active states
800 27% Headings
900 20% Body text
950 14% High contrast text

The Process

  1. Get input: Ask for base color (hex preferred) and color name (e.g., "primary")
  2. Ask format: CSS custom properties, Tailwind config, or JSON tokens?
  3. Ask color system (default OKLCH):
    • OKLCH - Perceptually uniform, modern standard (recommended)
    • HSL - Hue, Saturation, Lightness (wide browser support)
    • RGB - Red, Green, Blue (universal compatibility)
    • LCH - Lightness, Chroma, Hue (perceptual, CSS Color 4)
    • HEX - Hexadecimal notation (maximum compatibility)
  4. Generate scale: Create 11 steps with consistent chroma/saturation
  5. Add neutrals: Generate neutral scale using same hue, minimal saturation
  6. Add semantics: Generate success, warning, error, info harmonized with brand
  7. Output: Provide complete token set in requested format

Color Systems

System Format Example Best For
OKLCH oklch(55% 0.15 250) Modern browsers, perceptual accuracy
HSL hsl(220 80% 55%) Wide support, intuitive adjustments
RGB rgb(59 130 246) Universal, legacy systems
LCH lch(55% 60 250) Perceptual, CSS Color Level 4
HEX #3b82f6 Maximum compatibility

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 117 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A ab17ab302e09

Subscribe to this mod's changes

color-scale is a skill published in the GitHub repository dylantarre/design-system-skills (43 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,118 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 2026-08-30.

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