spacing-scale

spacing-scale is a skill for Claude Code from dylantarre/design-system-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (880 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A spacing-token generator for defining consistent distances between elements, such as margins, padding, and grid gaps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating or standardizing layout spacing, and exporting the values as CSS variables, Tailwind configuration, or JSON tokens.
Why use it?
It replaces unrelated, hand-picked spacing values with a repeatable scale based on a starting value and growth ratio.

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 Creating or standardizing layout spacing, and exporting the values as CSS variables, Tailwind configuration, or JSON tokens.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dylantarre/design-system-skills/spacing-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 spacing-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.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 880 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 $0.00042 $0.00880
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00440
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00088

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3bfef5e9c3c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spacing-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/spacing-scale/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spacing Scale Generator

Overview

Generate consistent spacing scales using a base value and ratio. Creates exponentially distributed values centered around a base unit for harmonious layouts.

When to Use

  • Setting up spacing tokens for a new project
  • Standardizing padding and margin values
  • Creating a gap/grid system
  • Migrating from arbitrary spacing to tokens

Quick Reference

Naming Style Example Names Best For
T-shirt xs, sm, md, lg, xl Semantic, readable
Numeric 100, 200, 300... Precise, extensible
Unit When to Use
px Fixed layouts, pixel-perfect designs
rem Scalable, respects user font settings
em Component-relative spacing

The Process

  1. Get base value: Default 4px or 0.25rem (common base unit)
  2. Get ratio: How much each step grows (1.5 is balanced, 2 is dramatic)
  3. Ask steps: How many spacing values (8-12 is typical)
  4. Ask naming: T-shirt sizes (xs, sm, md, lg) or numeric (100, 200, 300)?
  5. Ask unit: px, rem, or em?
  6. Ask format: CSS, Tailwind, or JSON?
  7. Generate: Create scale centered on base, expanding in both directions

Common Ratios

Ratio Character Example (base 4px)
1.25 Tight 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
1.5 Balanced 1.8, 2.7, 4, 6, 9, 13.5
1.618 Golden 1.5, 2.5, 4, 6.5, 10.5, 17
2 Dramatic 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32

Output Formats

CSS Custom Properties:

:root {
  --spacing-xs: 2px;
  --spacing-sm: 4px;
  --spacing-md: 8px;
  --spacing-lg: 16px;
  --spacing-xl: 32px;
}

Tailwind Config:

module.exports = {
  theme: {
    spacing: {
      'xs': '2px',
      'sm': '4px',
      'md': '8px',
      'lg': '16px',
      'xl': '32px',
    }
  }
}

JSON Tokens:

{
  "spacing": {
    "xs": "2px",
    "sm": "4px",
    "md": "8px",
    "lg": "16px",
    "xl": "32px"
  }
}

Algorithm

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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 · 110 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 3bfef5e9c3c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spacing-scale is a skill published in the GitHub repository dylantarre/design-system-skills (42 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 880 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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