A guide for creating documentation for design tokens, which are named values for colors, type, spacing, shadows, and similar interface choices.

Use it to build style guides with visual swatches, scales, usage rules, code examples, and references from CSS, JSON, or JavaScript tokens.

It turns scattered token files into a reference that designers and developers can understand and use consistently.

token-docs — Skill for Claude Code by dylantarre

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 token-docs

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 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,874 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00035	$0.03874
Opus 5	$0.00017	$0.01937
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00775
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00387

Measured 10d ago against content hash c46630b730ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

token-docs 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.

skills/documentation/token-docs/SKILL.md · 452 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 452 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Token Documentation Generator

Overview

Generate comprehensive documentation for design tokens including visual swatches, usage guidelines, code examples, and cross-reference tables. Create living documentation that stays in sync with token values.

When to Use

Documenting a new token system
Creating a design system style guide
Generating token reference for developers
Building visual documentation pages

Quick Reference: Documentation Sections

Section	Content	Audience
Overview	System philosophy, naming conventions	All
Color Tokens	Swatches, contrast info, usage	Designers, Devs
Typography	Font stacks, scale, line heights	Designers, Devs
Spacing	Scale visualization, use cases	Devs
Shadows	Visual examples, elevation guide	Designers, Devs
Radius	Corner examples, component mapping	Devs
Breakpoints	Device targets, media queries	Devs

The Process

Gather token data: Import from CSS, JSON, or JS files
Structure sections: Organize by category
Add visuals: Swatches, scales, examples
Write guidelines: When and how to use each token
Include code: Copy-paste examples for each format
Cross-reference: Link related tokens and components

Documentation Templates

Color Token Documentation

# Color Tokens

Our color system uses OKLCH for perceptual uniformity, ensuring consistent
visual steps across the entire scale.

## Naming Convention

`--color-{name}-{step}`

- **name**: Color category (primary, gray, success, etc.)
- **step**: Lightness value (50-950, lower = lighter)

## Primary

Our brand color, used for primary actions and key UI elements.

| Token | Value | Preview | Use Case |
|-------|-------|---------|----------|
| `--color-primary-50` | oklch(97% 0.01 250) | ![#eff6ff](swatch) | Subtle backgrounds |
| `--color-primary-100` | oklch(93% 0.02 250) | ![#dbeafe](swatch) | Hover states (light) |
| `--color-primary-500` | oklch(55% 0.15 250) | ![#3b82f6](swatch) | **Primary brand color** |
| `--color-primary-600` | oklch(45% 0.15 250) | ![#2563eb](swatch) | Hover states (dark) |
| `--color-primary-900` | oklch(20% 0.10 250) | ![#1e3a8a](swatch) | Text on light backgrounds |

### Accessibility

| Combination | Ratio | WCAG |
|-------------|-------|------|
| primary-900 on white | 9.4:1 | AAA |
| primary-500 on white | 4.5:1 | AA |
| white on primary-500 | 4.5:1 | AA |
| white on primary-600 | 5.8:1 | AA |

### Usage

```css
/* Primary actions */
.btn-primary {
  background-color: var(--color-primary-500);
  color: white;
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 452 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.

10d ago First seen · 452 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A c46630b730ba

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token-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository dylantarre/design-system-skills (41 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 3,874 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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