create-design-md

create-design-md is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ibelick/ui-skills. It costs 66 tokens per session (3,249 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A DESIGN.md document that records the visual rules and interface patterns of a product or website. It gives coding agents lasting guidance about the design language, such as how the interface should look and behave.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a repository’s or public website’s visual system, including relevant design tokens, component ownership, and guidance supported by the available evidence.
Why use it?
It preserves useful design context that may otherwise be lost when an agent starts work. This helps future interface changes stay consistent with the existing product.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to document a repository’s or public website’s visual system, including relevant design tokens, component ownership, and guidance supported by the available evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ibelick/ui-skills/create-design-md
About the project

UI Skills is a collection of skills and lessons for design engineers working on user interfaces. Developers and coding agents use it through a command-line interface or MCP tools to browse and retrieve design-engineering guidance. The catalogue add-ons contain selected UI skills and an instruction for using them.

ibelick/ui-skills · 8,248 stars · on GitHub · ui-skills.com

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 ibelick/ui-skills --skill create-design-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ibelick/ui-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,249 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 21 Jul 2026
  • Snyk pass 21 Jul 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 114
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 223
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 229
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 239
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00066 $0.03249
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.01625
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00650
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00325

Measured 9d ago against content hash adba4fa94a9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-design-md 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.

skills/create-design-md/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create DESIGN.md

Create a DESIGN.md for one product or coherent website. Record the design language that governs it, not every value that happens to exist.

Boundaries

  • Modify only DESIGN.md. Do not change product source, dependencies, configuration, or generated files.
  • Use the DESIGN.md format contract below. Do not invent a competing schema.
  • Do not copy every discovered token or component into the document.
  • Do not convert repetition, local styling, or visual preference into product intent.

1. Choose the mode

Repository mode

Use when a local product repository is available. Create or update DESIGN.md at the root of the selected product.

If the repository contains multiple deployable products, select the one named by the user. If the request does not identify one and ownership is ambiguous, ask before writing.

Repository evidence may establish normative values, token names, component ownership, and documented rationale.

URL mode

Use when the user provides a public URL without its source repository. Create a reconstructed DESIGN.md draft in the current workspace.

URL mode requires rendered browser access. Inspect the DOM, computed styles, and publicly loaded stylesheets at desktop and mobile widths. Screenshots may support interpretation but cannot establish exact values by themselves.

Inspect the supplied page and shared chrome. For a site-wide request, sample up to three same-origin pages that represent distinct templates.

URL evidence may establish only observable visual patterns and computed values. It cannot establish internal token names, component ownership, undocumented rationale, or whether a pattern is intentionally canonical.

If rendered inspection is unavailable, ask for screenshots or source files. Do not create a DESIGN.md from copy, metadata, or HTML structure alone.

Choose repository mode whenever source is available. A supplied URL may verify rendered presentation but does not replace repository evidence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 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 · 255 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A adba4fa94a9c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-design-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository ibelick/ui-skills (8,248 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 3,249 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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