Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to nikzlabs/shipit. 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/nikzlabs/shipit/main/.agents/skills/design-language/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nikzlabs/shipitWrote 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/nikzlabs/shipit/design-language)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikzlabs/shipit/design-language"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikzlabs/shipit/design-language/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/nikzlabs/shipit/design-language"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikzlabs/shipit/design-language.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00041 | $0.02592 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.01037 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00518 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00259 |
Grade A, and why
design-language 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Design Language
ShipIt uses semantic design tokens (CSS custom properties) for all colors. Themes are token overrides applied via a class on <html>. All UI code references tokens — never raw Tailwind color classes.
Concrete color values live in per-theme CSS files under src/client/themes/. Each file defines one theme's token values. src/client/index.css imports them and contains shared rules (animations, scrollbars, syntax highlighting). Theme state is managed by useTheme() in src/client/hooks/useTheme.ts (persisted to localStorage key shipit-theme).
src/client/themes/
light.css ← :root { --color-bg-primary: ...; }
dark.css ← .dark { --color-bg-primary: ...; }
To add a new theme: create a new CSS file in themes/, import it in index.css, register the name in useTheme(). No component changes needed.
Color Tokens
Never use raw Tailwind color classes like bg-gray-950 or text-blue-500 in components — use bg-[var(--color-bg-primary)].
| Token | Purpose |
|---|---|
--color-bg-primary |
Page/app background |
--color-bg-secondary |
Sidebar, secondary panels |
--color-bg-tertiary |
Cards, inputs, code blocks |
--color-bg-elevated |
Dropdowns, modals, popovers |
--color-bg-overlay |
Backdrop behind modals |
--color-bg-hover |
Hover state for interactive surfaces |
--color-bg-active |
Active/pressed state |
--color-text-primary |
Body text, headings |
--color-text-secondary |
Descriptions, timestamps |
--color-text-tertiary |
Placeholders, disabled |
--color-text-inverse |
Text on filled backgrounds |
--color-text-link |
Clickable text links |
--color-border-primary |
Panel borders, dividers |
--color-border-secondary |
Input borders |
--color-border-focus |
Focused input ring |
--color-accent |
Primary buttons, active tabs |
--color-accent-hover |
Primary button hover |
--color-accent-text |
Text on accent backgrounds |
--color-accent-subtle |
Tinted backgrounds, badges |
--color-success |
Connected, passed, deployed |
--color-success-subtle |
Success background |
--color-error |
Failed, disconnected, destructive |
--color-error-subtle |
Error background |
--color-warning |
In-progress, caution |
--color-warning-subtle |
Warning background |
--color-info |
Informational, typing |
--color-info-subtle |
Info background |
--color-pr |
PR open/merged indicator |
--color-folder |
Folder icon in file tree |
--color-autofix |
Auto-fix toggle/indicator |
--color-context-ok |
Context meter 0–60% |
--color-context-mid |
Context meter 60–80% |
--color-context-high |
Context meter 80–90% |
--color-context-full |
Context meter 90%+ |
--color-scrollbar-thumb |
Scrollbar thumb |
--color-scrollbar-thumb-hover |
Scrollbar thumb on hover |
--font-size-code |
Monospace / code block font size |
--duration-fast |
Color transitions, exits |
--duration-normal |
Enter animations, layout shifts |
--duration-slow |
Loading spinners |
--ease-default |
Default easing |
--ease-out |
Enter animations |
--ease-in |
Exit animations |
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines 2fd9677a8330
- 1mo ago First seen · 155 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 6274f65d2a09
design-language is a skill published in the GitHub repository nikzlabs/shipit (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,592 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.
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