Design

Design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from frhscopex/design-skill-os. It costs 42 tokens per session (12,820 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of Design, MIT.

A structured guide to visual and digital design, based on ten design books. It covers topics such as typography (how text is styled), color, layout, branding, logos, websites, and user experience.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or review brands, logos, websites, layouts, written visual stories, and other design work. It also includes checklists and guidance for creative work.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a broad design reference instead of leaving visual decisions undefined. This helps turn vague design goals into more considered choices.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan or review brands, logos, websites, layouts, written visual stories, and other design work. It also includes checklists and guidance for creative work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frhscopex/design-skill-os/design-skill
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 frhscopex/design-skill-os --skill design-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frhscopex/design-skill-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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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 12,820 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.12820
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.05128
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.02564
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.01282

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 571c9bf03403, 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/accessibility.py, scripts/data_gen.py, scripts/search.py, …), 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to Design — 47 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

src/design-skill/SKILL.md · 992 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 992 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Skill — Master Curriculum

Synthesized from: How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (Millman), Graphic Design School (Dabner/Calvert/Casey), Designing Brand Identity (Wheeler/Meyerson), Principles of Logo Design (Bokhua), Design Is Storytelling (Lupton), Steal Like an Artist (Kleon), Web Design in a Nutshell (O'Reilly), Palette Perfect (Wager), The Designer's Dictionary of Color (Adams), Thinking with Type (Lupton).


Table of Contents

  1. Design Thinking & Philosophy
  2. Research & Discovery
  3. Typography
  4. Color Theory & Application
  5. Composition & Layout
  6. Branding & Identity Systems
  7. Logo Design
  8. Storytelling & Narrative Design
  9. Web & Digital Design
  10. Image & Photography
  11. Print Production
  12. Packaging Design
  13. Wayfinding & Environmental Design
  14. Motion & Interaction Design
  15. UX & Human-Centered Design
  16. Creative Process & Ideation
  17. Professional Practice
  18. Design History & Movements
  19. Design Ethics & Responsibility
  20. Toolkit & Checklists
  21. AI Execution & Agentic Framework
  22. The "Master Designer" Prompt Template
  23. Red Team & Self-Critique Protocol

1. Design Thinking & Philosophy

1.1 What Design Actually Is

Design is not decoration. It is the deliberate act of giving form to communication so that it functions, resonates, and endures.

Read the full file on GitHub · 992 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 2mo ago First seen · 992 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 571c9bf03403

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Design is a skill published in the GitHub repository frhscopex/design-skill-os (57 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 12,820 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to Design, differing in 47 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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