design-tokens

design-tokens is a skill for Claude Code from julianoczkowski/designer-skills. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,792 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design-token generator that creates shared settings for a user interface, such as colors, spacing, font sizes, and component styles. It can produce CSS variables or a Tailwind configuration with light and dark themes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a project or setting up a design system to define color palettes, spacing scales, typography, light and dark modes, and component-level styling rules.
Why use it?
Shared settings keep an interface visually consistent and make broad design changes easier than editing values separately in every component.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the designer-skills plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting a project or setting up a design system to define color palettes, spacing scales, typography, light and dark modes, and component-level styling rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/julianoczkowski/designer-skills/design-tokens
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 julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill design-tokens
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/julianoczkowski/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designer-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,792 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 30 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 30 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00068 $0.01792
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00896
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00179

Measured 13d ago against content hash 951eb7680b1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-tokens 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 13d 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.

design-tokens/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

This skill generates the foundational design tokens for a project. Run this after the design brief and before building any components. Every component built after this references these tokens instead of hardcoding values.

Example prompts

  • "Set up design tokens for this project"
  • "Generate a token system based on Dieter Rams"
  • "I need a spacing scale and color palette before I start building"
  • "Create tokens that match our brief"

Process

  1. Check what already exists. Before generating anything, scan the codebase for:

    • CSS variable definitions (:root, [data-theme], custom property files)
    • Tailwind config (tailwind.config.js, tailwind.config.ts) and any theme extensions
    • Theme provider files (Material UI createTheme, Chakra extendTheme, shadcn globals.css)
    • Design token JSON files (Style Dictionary format, Figma token exports)
    • Any tokens.css, variables.css, theme.css, or similarly named files
    • package.json for UI framework dependencies (tailwindcss, @mui/material, @chakra-ui/react, etc.)

    If tokens already exist, extend them rather than replacing. Identify gaps (missing dark mode, incomplete spacing scale, no motion tokens) and fill those.

  2. Read the brief. Look for a design brief at .design/*/DESIGN_BRIEF.md. If multiple subfolders exist, use the most recently modified one, or ask the user which feature they are working on. If a philosophy is named, use the parameters from /frontend-design to derive token values. If no brief exists, ask the user what direction they want.

  3. Generate tokens in the format that matches the project's tech stack:

    • Tailwind project → extend tailwind.config.js and write to globals.css
    • CSS/HTML project → write to a tokens.css file
    • CSS-in-JS project → write to a theme.ts or theme.js file
    • If unclear, default to CSS custom properties (most portable)
  4. Always generate both light and dark mode palettes. Use [data-theme="dark"] or prefers-color-scheme media query. Both palettes should feel intentional for the chosen philosophy, not just inverted values.

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 13d ago First seen · 197 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 951eb7680b1c

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design-tokens is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianoczkowski/designer-skills (551 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,792 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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