Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to IncomeStreamSurfer/paperclip-surfers. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IncomeStreamSurfer/paperclip-surfers/master/.claude/skills/design-guide/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IncomeStreamSurfer/paperclip-surfersWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/incomestreamsurfer/paperclip-surfers/design-guide)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/incomestreamsurfer/paperclip-surfers/design-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/incomestreamsurfer/paperclip-surfers/design-guide/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/incomestreamsurfer/paperclip-surfers/design-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/incomestreamsurfer/paperclip-surfers/design-guide.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00105 | $0.03017 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00053 | $0.01509 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00603 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00302 |
Grade A, and why
design-guide 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 12d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to design-guide — 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 352 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Paperclip Design Guide
Paperclip's UI is a professional-grade control plane — dense, keyboard-driven, dark-themed by default. Every pixel earns its place.
Always use with: frontend-design (visual polish) and web-design-guidelines (web best practices).
1. Design Principles
- Dense but scannable. Maximum information without clicks to reveal. Whitespace separates, not pads.
- Keyboard-first. Global shortcuts (Cmd+K, C, [, ]). Power users rarely touch the mouse.
- Contextual, not modal. Inline editing over dialog boxes. Dropdowns over page navigations.
- Dark theme default. Neutral grays (OKLCH), not pure black. Accent colors for status/priority only. Text is the primary visual element.
- Component-driven. Prefer reusable components that capture style conventions. Build at the right abstraction — not too granular, not too monolithic.
2. Tech Stack
- React 19 + TypeScript + Vite
- Tailwind CSS v4 with CSS variables (OKLCH color space)
- shadcn/ui (new-york style, neutral base, CSS variables enabled)
- Radix UI primitives (accessibility, focus management)
- Lucide React icons (16px nav, 14px inline)
- class-variance-authority (CVA) for component variants
- clsx + tailwind-merge via
cn()utility
Config: ui/components.json (aliases: @/components, @/components/ui, @/lib, @/hooks)
3. Design Tokens
All tokens defined as CSS variables in ui/src/index.css. Both light and dark themes use OKLCH.
Colors
Use semantic token names, never raw color values:
| Token | Usage |
|---|---|
--background / --foreground |
Page background and primary text |
--card / --card-foreground |
Card surfaces |
--primary / --primary-foreground |
Primary actions, emphasis |
--secondary / --secondary-foreground |
Secondary surfaces |
--muted / --muted-foreground |
Subdued text, labels |
--accent / --accent-foreground |
Hover states, active nav items |
--destructive |
Destructive actions |
--border |
All borders |
--ring |
Focus rings |
--sidebar-* |
Sidebar-specific variants |
--chart-1 through --chart-5 |
Data visualization |
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 352 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 07781469e7a3
design-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository IncomeStreamSurfer/paperclip-surfers (74 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 3,017 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to design-guide, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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