claude-design-system-architect

claude-design-system-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OneWave-AI/claude-skills. It costs 91 tokens per session (992 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-system workflow for defining how a brand's website or product should look and behave. It creates shared decisions for colors, fonts, spacing, shapes, shadows, motion, and components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a brand brief or existing website into design tokens, component specifications, Tailwind settings, CSS variables, and a usage guide.
Why use it?
It gives designers and developers a common visual reference, reducing inconsistent or generic-looking interfaces. It can also export these decisions for use in code and documentation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to turn a brand brief or existing website into design tokens, component specifications, Tailwind settings, CSS variables, and a usage guide.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add OneWave-AI/claude-skills --skill claude-design-system-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OneWave-AI/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 992 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 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 $0.00091 $0.00992
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00496
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00099

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2eea8180c0f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-design-system-architect 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.

claude-design-system-architect/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Design System Architect

A design system is the difference between a site that looks bespoke and one that looks like every other AI-generated landing page. This skill builds the token layer and component language that makes everything downstream look intentional — then exports it in the formats your stack actually uses.

Pairs with claude-landing-composer (which consumes these tokens to build pages) and claude-design-critic (which audits against them).

Step 1 — Establish the brand inputs

From a brief, an existing site (WebFetch / screenshots), or a few reference sites the user likes:

  • Personality — 3–5 adjectives (e.g. "warm, editorial, confident, calm"). These drive every later decision.
  • Audience & context — who uses it, on what device, in what mood.
  • Existing equity — logo, locked colors, fonts already in use.
  • Anti-references — what it must NOT look like.

Defaults & house rules

Unless the brand explicitly overrides:

  • No purple anywhere in the palette.
  • No emoji in UI — use an icon set (Lucide / Heroicons) and specify it as a token.
  • Lean toward warm / earth tones (sand, terracotta, clay) and consider a dark surface option.
  • Motion is part of the system, not an afterthought.

Step 2 — Build the tokens

Design each layer deliberately and document the why:

  • Color — a real ramp (50–900) per hue, semantic tokens (surface, text, muted, accent, border, success/warn/danger), and verified contrast (WCAG AA min for body text). Include a dark mode set. No arbitrary hexes scattered later — everything maps to a token.
  • Type — a font pairing with rationale, a modular scale (not random px), line-heights and tracking per size, and weights. Prefer characterful, legible pairings over the default system stack that screams "AI made this."
  • Space & layout — a spacing scale, container widths, grid, breakpoints. Generous, asymmetric whitespace reads premium; cramped uniform padding reads generated.
  • Radius / border / elevation — a small, consistent set. Shadows that match the brand's weight (soft for warm brands, crisp for technical ones).
  • Motion — duration + easing tokens, named patterns (entrance, emphasis, transition), and a reduced-motion stance. This is what makes it feel alive.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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 · 61 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 2eea8180c0f1

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claude-design-system-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository OneWave-AI/claude-skills (291 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 992 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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