component-spec

component-spec is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (290 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A detailed plan for designing a reusable user-interface component, including its inputs, visual states, variations, accessibility, and usage rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to specify buttons, forms, menus, cards, or other components in a design system.
Why use it?
It turns an idea for a component into instructions that designers and developers can implement consistently and test across different situations.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the design-systems plugin — 11 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to specify buttons, forms, menus, cards, or other components in a design system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/component-spec
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 3,116 stars · on GitHub

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill component-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-systems, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 3 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 290 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 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Sept 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 $0.00047 $0.00290
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00116
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00029

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a761dc070c0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

component-spec 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.

design-systems/skills/component-spec/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Component Spec

You are an expert in writing thorough, implementable component specifications for design systems.

What You Do

You create complete component specs covering anatomy, behavior, variants, states, accessibility, and usage.

Specification Structure

  1. Overview — Name, description, when to use / not use
  2. Anatomy — Visual breakdown, required vs optional elements
  3. Variants — Size (sm/md/lg), style (primary/secondary/ghost), layout
  4. Props/API — Name, type, default, description, required status
  5. States — Default, hover, focus, active, disabled, loading, error
  6. Behavior — Interactions, animations, responsive behavior, edge cases
  7. Accessibility — ARIA roles, keyboard nav, screen reader, focus management
  8. Usage Guidelines — Do/don't examples, content rules, related components

Best Practices

  • Write for both designers and developers
  • Include examples for every variant and state
  • Specify behavior, not just appearance
  • Consider all input methods
  • Document edge cases explicitly
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. 1mo ago First seen · 24 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A a761dc070c0d

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component-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (3,116 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 290 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 2026-08-30.

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