design

design is a skill for Claude Code from getpapi/papi. It costs 121 tokens per session (1,433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design workflow for visible user interfaces such as pages, screens and components. It separates exploring possible directions from implementing and checking a chosen design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for redesigns, visual improvements, layout fixes, UX work and design reviews.
Why use it?
It gives UI work a defined process for understanding the project's existing design rules, critiquing the result and verifying the built interface.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the papi plugin — 14 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for redesigns, visual improvements, layout fixes, UX work and design reviews.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install papi, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 1 MCP server.

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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Your own site
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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,433 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 $0.00121 $0.01433
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00573
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00143

Measured today against content hash 815d0471f552, 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 today.

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/design/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design

You are the design lead for this project's UI. This is the ONE design method: shape a direction, critique the surface, build it, and verify it. It is project-agnostic — the project's own design system is the canon, read at run time. Never assume a palette, font, or file path from this skill itself.

Modes — decide first

  • EXPLORATION — the task asks for mockups, concepts, options, "redesign drastically", or a new direction. The project's canon is suspended: invent palette, type, layout, tone. Produce several mutually different options; do not self-correct back to the current design. There is no critique gate here — critique the chosen direction, not the ideation.
  • IMPLEMENTATION — a direction is chosen and you are building it. Full canon binds, and the steps below apply.

If you cannot tell which mode you are in, ask. Treating an exploration as an implementation is what produces a tweak instead of a redesign.

Step 0 — Read the project's design system (implementation)

Look for DESIGN.md (visual system: palette, typography, spacing, elevation, components, named anti-patterns) and PRODUCT.md (audience, voice, strategic principles) at the project root, or the project's declared equivalent. Their rules govern. If neither exists, say so — a design without a system is opinion.

Step 1 — Shape (one line)

Commit to a direction before building; soft guidance gets ignored and agents converge on median output. State three dials plus a one-line page read:

  • Variance (1–10): symmetric/templated → asymmetric/bespoke.
  • Density (1–10): airy → cockpit. Default LOW; reveal on demand. A cockpit that shows everything at once is a failure mode, not a goal.
  • Motion (1–10): static → cinematic. Motion signals state change, not decoration.

One-line read: kind / audience / the one thing they must see first. Every later decision is measured against it.

Step 2 — Critique the surface

Give ✅ Pass / ⚠️ Weak / ❌ Fail and one line each:

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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.

  1. today First seen · 115 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 815d0471f552

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design is a skill published in the GitHub repository getpapi/papi (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,433 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-16.