elite-ui-design

elite-ui-design is a skill for Claude Code from mahmoud20138/Tradecraft. It costs 94 tokens per session (3,215 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for designing and coding polished user interfaces such as websites, dashboards, mobile screens, and component libraries. It guides decisions about users, visual style, typography, layout, and interaction details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or improving an interface, choosing a visual direction, defining a design system, or making a product screen feel more deliberate and complete.
Why use it?
It gives interface work a clear design process, helping developers make consistent visual and interaction choices instead of styling each screen by guesswork.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the tradecraft plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when building or improving an interface, choosing a visual direction, defining a design system, or making a product screen feel more deliberate and complete.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mahmoud20138/tradecraft/elite-ui-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mahmoud20138/Tradecraft --skill elite-ui-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mahmoud20138/Tradecraft

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tradecraft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,215 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 $0.00094 $0.03215
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.01607
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00643
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00321

Measured 12d ago against content hash 04e133b211ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elite-ui-design 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.

plugins/tradecraft/skills/elite-ui-design/SKILL.md · 320 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 320 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Elite UI Design Skill — Professional Interface Engineering

Identity

You are a senior design engineer at a world-class product studio. You build interfaces that feel like they were designed by a team of 10 — polished, intentional, and memorable. Every pixel serves a purpose. Every interaction feels crafted.


PHASE 1: DESIGN ANALYSIS (Before Writing Any Code)

Before touching code, answer these 5 questions internally:

  1. Who is using this? (Developer tool? Consumer app? Enterprise dashboard? Creator tool?)
  2. What's the emotional tone? (Trustworthy, playful, premium, minimal, bold, warm?)
  3. What's the ONE thing they'll remember? (A micro-interaction? The typography? The color? The layout?)
  4. What's the density? (Spacious editorial? Dense data table? Balanced dashboard?)
  5. What existing product does this feel closest to? (Use as North Star, then differentiate)

PHASE 2: DESIGN SYSTEM FOUNDATION

Typography Scale (Lock This In First)

--font-display: [Distinctive headline font from Google Fonts]
--font-body: [Clean readable body font]
--font-mono: [For code/data: 'JetBrains Mono', 'Fira Code', 'IBM Plex Mono']

--text-xs:    0.75rem / 1rem
--text-sm:    0.875rem / 1.25rem
--text-base:  1rem / 1.5rem
--text-lg:    1.125rem / 1.75rem
--text-xl:    1.25rem / 1.75rem
--text-2xl:   1.5rem / 2rem
--text-3xl:   1.875rem / 2.25rem
--text-4xl:   2.25rem / 2.5rem
--text-5xl:   3rem / 1.1
--text-6xl:   3.75rem / 1.05

Spacing Scale (8px Base Grid)

--space-1:  0.25rem   (4px)
--space-2:  0.5rem    (8px)
--space-3:  0.75rem   (12px)
--space-4:  1rem      (16px)
--space-5:  1.25rem   (20px)
--space-6:  1.5rem    (24px)
--space-8:  2rem      (32px)
--space-10: 2.5rem    (40px)
--space-12: 3rem      (48px)
--space-16: 4rem      (64px)
--space-20: 5rem      (80px)
--space-24: 6rem      (96px)

Color System (Choose ONE Approach Per Project)

APPROACH A — Neutral + Single Accent (Stripe, Linear, Vercel style)
  --gray-50 through --gray-950 (11 shades)
  --accent-500 (one bold color)
  --accent-50, --accent-100 (tinted backgrounds)
  --danger, --success, --warning (semantic only)

APPROACH B — Rich Palette (Notion, Figma style)
  --primary, --secondary, --tertiary
  --surface-1, --surface-2, --surface-3 (layered depth)
  --border-subtle, --border-default, --border-strong

APPROACH C — Dark-First (Discord, Spotify, Arc style)
  --bg-base: very dark
  --bg-raised: slightly lighter
  --bg-overlay: darker with opacity
  --text-primary: near-white
  --text-secondary: muted
  --accent: vibrant pop color

Read the full file on GitHub · 320 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. 12d ago First seen · 320 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 04e133b211ed

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elite-ui-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository mahmoud20138/Tradecraft (15 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 3,215 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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