pn-design-system

pn-design-system is a skill for Cursor from perniemann/pnCore. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,096 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating and maintaining a design system: shared rules for colors, spacing, typography, themes, and component styles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define tokens, support light and dark themes, create spacing and type scales, and audit components for consistency.
Why use it?
It reduces one-off visual choices and keeps an interface consistent as it grows. It uses CSS variables and reusable design tokens to make changes easier to manage.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin.

Part of the pn-core plugin — 133 skills, 19 commands, 9 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to define tokens, support light and dark themes, create spacing and type scales, and audit components for consistency.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/perniemann/pncore/pn-design-system
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 perniemann/pnCore --skill pn-design-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/perniemann/pnCore

Made for: Cursor.

Or install pn-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills, 19 commands, 9 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,096 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 $0.00054 $0.01096
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00548
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00110

Measured 6d ago against content hash c3b2ffac6ad8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pn-design-system 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 6d 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.

packages/pn-core-mcp/content/skills/frontend/pn-design-system/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design system skill

When to use

  • Defining or refactoring design tokens
  • Setting up CSS variable architecture
  • Creating or enforcing spacing and typography scales
  • Implementing light/dark or multi-theme support
  • Auditing components for consistency
  • Preventing one-off colors, spacing, or font sizes

Token hierarchy

  1. Primitive tokens: Raw values (e.g. --color-blue-500: #3b82f6, --space-4: 1rem, --font-sans: 'Inter', sans-serif). No semantic meaning.
  2. Semantic tokens: Map primitives to intent (e.g. --color-primary: var(--color-blue-500), --spacing-md: var(--space-4), --font-body: var(--font-sans)).
  3. Component tokens: Component-specific overrides (e.g. --button-bg: var(--color-primary), --card-padding: var(--spacing-lg)). Prefer semantic over primitive in components.

CSS variable naming conventions

  • Prefix by category: --color-, --space-, --font-, --radius-, --shadow-, --duration-, --ease-.
  • Scale suffixes: Use numeric or semantic scale (e.g. --space-1 through --space-12, or --space-xs, --space-sm, --space-md, --space-lg, --space-xl).
  • Semantic names: Prefer --color-text-primary over --color-gray-900 in component usage; reserve primitives for token definitions.
  • No one-offs: Avoid inline values like color: #3b82f6 or margin: 13px; use tokens.

Spacing scale

  • Define a consistent scale (e.g. 4px base: 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96).
  • Map to tokens: --space-1, --space-2, etc.
  • Use for margin, padding, gap. Avoid arbitrary values.

Typography scale

  • Define type scale (e.g. 12, 14, 16, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48).
  • Map to tokens: --text-xs, --text-sm, --text-base, --text-lg, --text-xl, etc.
  • Include line-height and letter-spacing where needed.
  • Use clamp() or fluid typography for responsive scaling when appropriate.

Base styles: prefers-reduced-motion (required)

When defining global/base CSS (e.g. globals.css, base.css), always add:

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 84 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A c3b2ffac6ad8

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pn-design-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository perniemann/pnCore (0 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,096 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 2026-09-03.

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