tailwind-design-system

tailwind-design-system is a skill for Claude Code from giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,526 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building a shared interface design system with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui. It covers design tokens, themes, and reusable components so an application can keep the same visual rules throughout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define colors, fonts, spacing, borders, and shadows; configure CSS-based themes; and wrap shadcn/ui components into a consistent component library.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated styling decisions and helps prevent different parts of an application from drifting apart. It also provides a structured way to support themes such as light and dark mode.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the developer-kit-typescript plugin — 25 skills, 3 commands, 13 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to define colors, fonts, spacing, borders, and shadows; configure CSS-based themes; and wrap shadcn/ui components into a consistent component library.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit/tailwind-design-system
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 giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit --skill tailwind-design-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install developer-kit-typescript, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 3 commands, 13 agents.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,526 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.01010
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00505
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00253

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 053e93a9f46e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tailwind-design-system 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 1mo 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.

plugins/developer-kit-typescript/skills/tailwind-design-system/SKILL.md · 275 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tailwind CSS & shadcn/ui Design System

Overview

Expert guide for creating and managing a centralized Design System using Tailwind CSS (v4.1+) and shadcn/ui. This skill provides structured workflows for defining design tokens, configuring themes with CSS variables, and building a consistent UI component library based on shadcn/ui primitives.

Relationship with other skills:

  • tailwind-css-patterns covers utility-first styling, responsive design, and general Tailwind CSS usage
  • shadcn-ui covers individual component installation, configuration, and implementation
  • This skill focuses on the system-level orchestration: design tokens, theming infrastructure, component wrapping patterns, and ensuring consistency across the entire application

When to Use

  • Setting up a new design system from scratch with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui
  • Defining design tokens (colors, typography, spacing, radius, shadows) as CSS variables
  • Configuring globals.css with a centralized theming system (light/dark mode)
  • Wrapping shadcn/ui components into design system primitives with enforced constraints
  • Building a token-driven component library for consistent UI
  • Migrating from a JavaScript-based Tailwind config to CSS-first configuration (v4.1+)
  • Establishing color palettes with oklch format for perceptual uniformity
  • Creating multi-theme support beyond light/dark (e.g., brand themes)

Instructions

Step 1: Initialize Design System Configuration

Run these commands to set up the project:

# Check if Tailwind is installed
npx tailwindcss --version

# For Tailwind v4 (recommended)
npx @tailwindcss/vite@latest init   # or: npm install -D tailwindcss @tailwindcss/vite

# Initialize shadcn/ui CLI
npx shadcn@latest init

# Install core shadcn/ui components
npx shadcn@latest add button card input -y

Validation checkpoint: After setup, verify with:

ls src/components/ui/        # Should list installed components
cat src/app/globals.css       # Should contain @tailwind directives

Read the full file on GitHub · 275 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. 1mo ago First seen · 275 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 053e93a9f46e

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tailwind-design-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit (363 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,526 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-10.

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