design-movements

design-movements is a skill for Claude Code from HermeticOrmus/design-mastery-claude-code. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,761 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of design-movements, MIT.

A guide to historical design movements such as Bauhaus, Swiss International Style, Art Deco, and Memphis. It explains how these styles developed, what they communicate, and how they continue to influence visual work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting a visual direction, explaining design choices, connecting style to culture, or thinking about how design trends may change.
Why use it?
It helps you choose an aesthetic deliberately, understand why a style feels a certain way, and avoid using historical references without understanding their context.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the design-mastery plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when selecting a visual direction, explaining design choices, connecting style to culture, or thinking about how design trends may change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hermeticormus/design-mastery-claude-code/design-movements
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 HermeticOrmus/design-mastery-claude-code --skill design-movements
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HermeticOrmus/design-mastery-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-mastery, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,761 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 100% 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 $0.00045 $0.02761
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01380
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00552
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00276

Measured 9d ago against content hash 48f16c1fb763, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-movements 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to design-movements — 0 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.

skills/design-movements/SKILL.md · 433 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 433 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Movements

Every movement is a reaction. Understanding the chain of reactions helps you predict what comes next and choose directions intentionally.

When to Use This Skill

  • Choosing an aesthetic direction for a project
  • Understanding why certain styles feel the way they do
  • Connecting visual choices to cultural meaning
  • Predicting trend cycles
  • Avoiding accidental historical misuse

The Lineage

Arts & Crafts (1850s) ─→ Art Nouveau (1890s) ─→ Art Deco (1920s)
                                                      │
                                                      ↓
                        Bauhaus (1919-33) ←────── Modernism
                              │
                              ↓
              Swiss International Style (1950s)
                              │
              ┌───────────────┼───────────────┐
              ↓               ↓               ↓
        Corporate         Psychedelic     Postmodernism
        Modernism         (1960s)         (1970s)
         (1960s)              │               │
              │               ↓               ↓
              │          Punk/New Wave   Memphis Group
              │           (1970s)         (1980s)
              │               │               │
              └───────────────┴───────────────┘
                              │
                              ↓
                    Grunge/Deconstructivism (1990s)
                              │
              ┌───────────────┼───────────────┐
              ↓               ↓               ↓
          Web 2.0        Flat Design    Contemporary
        Skeuomorphism     (2010s)       Eclecticism
         (2000s)              │          (2020s)
              │               │               ↑
              └───────────────┴───────────────┘

Movements in Depth

Arts and Crafts (1850-1910)

Origin: England → Global Reaction To: Industrial Revolution's dehumanizing mass production Core Belief: Handcraft has moral value

Read the full file on GitHub · 433 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. 9d ago First seen · 433 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 48f16c1fb763

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design-movements is a skill published in the GitHub repository HermeticOrmus/design-mastery-claude-code (12 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,761 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to design-movements, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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