tailwind-design-system

tailwind-design-system is a skill for Claude Code from HigorAlves/orc. It costs 38 tokens per session (996 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for building shared interface styles with Tailwind CSS v4, a utility-based CSS framework. It covers reusable components, named design values, responsive layouts, accessibility, and themes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or standardize a Tailwind v4 component library, theme, responsive layout system, dark mode, or migration from Tailwind v3.
Why use it?
It helps teams keep visual patterns consistent across an application instead of styling each screen differently.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the orc plugin — 84 skills, 31 commands, 14 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or standardize a Tailwind v4 component library, theme, responsive layout system, dark mode, or migration from Tailwind v3.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/higoralves/orc/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 HigorAlves/orc --skill tailwind-design-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HigorAlves/orc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 84 skills, 31 commands, 14 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 996 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 $0.00038 $0.00996
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00398
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00100

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d459125476fa, 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.

orc/skills/tailwind-design-system/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tailwind Design System (v4)

Build production-ready design systems with Tailwind CSS v4: CSS-first configuration, design tokens, component variants, responsive patterns, accessibility, and a distinctive (non-generic) aesthetic.

Note: This skill targets Tailwind CSS v4 (2024+). For v3 projects, refer to the upgrade guide.

When to Use This Skill

  • Creating a component library with Tailwind v4
  • Implementing design tokens and theming with CSS-first configuration
  • Building responsive and accessible components
  • Standardizing UI patterns across a codebase
  • Migrating from Tailwind v3 to v4
  • Setting up dark mode with native CSS features
  • Designing interfaces that look intentionally crafted, not generic "AI slop"

Key v4 Changes (at a glance)

v3 Pattern v4 Pattern
tailwind.config.ts @theme in CSS
@tailwind base/components/utilities @import "tailwindcss"
darkMode: "class" @custom-variant dark (&:where(.dark, .dark *))
theme.extend.colors @theme { --color-*: value }
require("tailwindcss-animate") native @keyframes + @starting-style

Full migration checklist lives in references/advanced-patterns.md.

Core Concepts

  • Design token hierarchy — Brand tokens → Semantic tokens → Component tokens. Reference tokens via utilities (bg-primary), never hardcode colors.
  • Component architecture — Base styles → Variants → Sizes → States → Overrides. Use CVA for type-safe variants.
  • CSS-first config — All theme configuration lives in @theme blocks in CSS, not a JS/TS config file.
  • OKLCH colors — Prefer OKLCH for perceptual uniformity over HSL.
  • React 19 — ref is a regular prop; no forwardRef.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 61 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A d459125476fa

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tailwind-design-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository HigorAlves/orc (6 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 996 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 2026-09-03.

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