What is design-polish?

A targeted pass for improving the small visual and interaction details of an existing user interface without changing its structure.

Use it to polish type scales, spacing, focus states, hover and active states, micro-interactions, motion timing, and issues identified by a design critique.

It addresses inconsistent typography, spacing, focus behavior, hover feedback, motion, and other visible design problems without requiring a layout rewrite.

design-polish — Skill for Claude Code by hamzaPixl

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 hamzaPixl/pixl-ai --skill design-polish

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzaPixl/pixl-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pixl-crew, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 93 skills, 14 agents, 6 hooks.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,468 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	$0.00073	$0.01468
Opus 5	$0.00036	$0.00734
Sonnet 5	$0.00015	$0.00294
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00147

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4ae574bab887, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-polish 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.

packages/crew/skills/design-polish/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Surgical polish pass on existing UI. Fixes the small-but-visible details that separate "fine" from "crafted": type scale rhythm, spacing consistency, focus states, micro-interactions, hover feedback, and banned anti-patterns. Structure stays intact — no layout rewrites, no component reshaping. Use /design-distill first if the UI is overdesigned; use /design-variants if you need a new direction.

Required References

Read before starting:

references/frontend/design/typography.md — type scale and rhythm
references/frontend/design/spatial-design.md — spacing, density, alignment
references/frontend/design/interaction-design.md — hover/focus/active/disabled states
references/frontend/design/motion-design.md — micro-interaction timing and easing
references/frontend/design/anti-patterns.md — banned patterns to replace

Step 1: Load Findings

Two entry modes:

From /design-critique — read DESIGN-CRITIQUE.md if present, take P0/P1 fix items
Direct — scan the target file(s) for polish opportunities using the references above

Build a concrete todo list of surgical edits (each mapped to a file:line).

Step 2: Surgical Edits (in order)

Apply edits one category at a time, re-reading the file after each group:

2.1 Anti-pattern removal

Gradient text → solid brand color with proper font weight
text-gray-* on colored backgrounds → tokenized contrast color
Side-stripe borders → removed or replaced with subtle top accent
Emoji-as-icon → SVG icons (use /svg-icon-creation if none exist)
Default Inter-only → pair a display font (see typography.md)

2.2 Typography rhythm

Verify scale steps: text-sm, text-base, text-lg, text-xl, text-2xl, text-4xl, text-6xl — skip irregular stops
Line-height: tighten display text to leading-[1.05], keep body at leading-relaxed
Letter-spacing: tracking-tight on headings 3xl+, tracking-normal on body, tracking-wide on eyebrows/labels
Font weight: hero 600-700, section titles 500-600, body 400, labels 500

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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.

11d ago First seen · 138 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 4ae574bab887

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-polish is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzaPixl/pixl-ai (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,468 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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