designer-onboarding

designer-onboarding is a skill for Claude Code from murphytrueman/design-system-ops. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An onboarding-guide skill for helping a new designer learn a team’s design system—a shared set of reusable interface rules and components. It covers tools, design principles, team practices, and a first contribution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create first-day guides for designers joining a team that uses tools such as Figma libraries, documentation platforms, and component packages. It also helps explain how to contribute to the design system.
Why use it?
It turns scattered documentation and assumed knowledge into a step-by-step path a newcomer can follow independently. This helps prevent skipped setup steps and confusion about where to get help.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the design-system-ops plugin — 40 skills, 14 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to create first-day guides for designers joining a team that uses tools such as Figma libraries, documentation platforms, and component packages. It also helps explain how to contribute to the design system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/murphytrueman/design-system-ops/designer-onboarding
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add murphytrueman/design-system-ops --skill designer-onboarding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/murphytrueman/design-system-ops

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-system-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 14 commands.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,325 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
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Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00070 $0.02325
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01162
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00465
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00232

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5c8b13be0458, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

designer-onboarding 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.

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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/designer-onboarding/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Designer onboarding

A skill for creating a practical onboarding guide for a designer joining a team that uses a design system. Output covers system philosophy, tooling setup, contribution norms, and a first contribution path — structured so a new team member can follow it without additional help.

Context

Onboarding documentation has a failure mode: it gets written for the person creating it, not the person reading it. It assumes context, skips steps that feel obvious to anyone who already knows the system, and leaves the new team member with a list of things to read rather than a path to follow.

The goal is an onboarding guide that a new designer could follow alone on their first day and feel oriented rather than overwhelmed. That means it has to be honest about what the system is and what it is not, explicit about where to get help, and structured so that early wins come before deep context.

Step 1: Gather the system context

Ask for or confirm:

  • The design system name and the organisation or product context it serves
  • The tooling stack: Figma library, documentation platform, component package, contribution tools
  • The team structure: who owns the system, who the new designer's main contacts are
  • The key contribution norms: what the process is for using components, raising gaps, and contributing new work
  • Any known rough edges or caveats a new designer should know upfront

If specific details are not available (e.g. specific Figma library link), use placeholders clearly marked for the team to complete before the guide is published.

Small-system note (fewer than 5 components): For systems with fewer than 5 components, the onboarding guide should be shorter and more personal. The "what the system covers" section can be a brief list rather than a conceptual overview — with 3 components, name them. The "your first two weeks" timeline can compress to a first week, since there is less to explore. Replace the "when the system does not have what you need" section with a more prominent one: "what the system covers and what it does not" — at this size, the gaps are as important as the coverage, and a new designer should know both from day one. Emphasise human relationships over documentation: "Ask [name] to pair with you on your first task using the system" is more effective than "explore the documentation platform" when the documentation platform has three entries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 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 · 203 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 5c8b13be0458

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designer-onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository murphytrueman/design-system-ops (178 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,325 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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