claude-design-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/claude-design/SKILL.md

claude-design is a skill for Claude Code from e-brokenc0de/claude-design-mcp. It costs 141 tokens per session (2,367 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for controlling Claude Design, a design tool for creating UI screens, components, prototypes, and design systems, through an MCP server and a logged-in Chrome browser.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or change design systems, generate UI screens and components, manage design projects, retrieve design details, and export results.
Why use it?
It lets an agent create, inspect, revise, and export design work from a project while keeping the work in the repository workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

This is e-brokenc0de/claude-design-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-design-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-design-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to e-brokenc0de/claude-design-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/e-brokenc0de/claude-design-mcp/main/.claude/skills/claude-design/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/e-brokenc0de/claude-design-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,367 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 $0.00141 $0.02367
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01184
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00237

Measured 11d ago against content hash ea89b22898d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-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 11d 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.

.claude/skills/claude-design/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Design (via MCP)

The claude-design MCP server automates claude.ai/design — which has no public API — by attaching to a real Chrome over CDP and calling its internal RPC. It exposes clean tools (prefix mcp__claude-design__*) so you can build and pull design systems straight into a repo instead of clicking through the web app.

Before anything: the session must be authenticated

Every tool drives a logged-in Chrome. If a tool returns NOT_AUTHED (or anything mentions login), the CDP Chrome isn't signed into claude.ai. Tell the user to run, once:

cd <claude-design-mcp repo> && pnpm run chrome:cdp

…then log into claude.ai in the window that opens. The session persists, so this is a one-time step per machine (or after logout). Don't try to work around auth failures — surface this instruction.

Generation is asynchronous (a full design system takes ~5 min; small projects are faster). Never block waiting — start it, then either poll get_status, or watch in the background and get auto-woken when it finishes (see below).

Waiting for generation (background + auto-wake)

After generate, iterate, or send_message, don't sit and re-poll every few seconds — that burns turns. Two options:

  • Quick manual check: call get_status({ projectId })generating | ready. Good for a one-off "is it done yet?".

  • Background watch with automatic wake-up (preferred for long runs): run the watcher as a background command. The harness sends a completion notification the moment it exits, so you're woken exactly when generation settles — no polling in between:

    cd <claude-design-mcp repo> && \
      pnpm run watch:status -- --project <projectId>
    

    Run it with the agent's background execution (e.g. Bash run_in_background: true). It connects over CDP, watches the project's files until a change is seen and then nothing changes for ~40s, prints {"status":"ready", ...} and exits 0 (exits 2 with {"status":"timeout"} if it never settles). Kick it off right after the generate/send_message call. Flags: --timeout, --quiet, --interval (ms).

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 206 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A ea89b22898d6

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claude-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository e-brokenc0de/claude-design-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 2,367 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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