apply-aesthetic

apply-aesthetic is a skill for Claude Code from plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills. It costs 102 tokens per session (690 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for applying a chosen visual style to a design by translating it into the project's design tokens, which are shared values such as colours and spacing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Applying styles such as editorial minimal, brutalist, dark-tech, or named systems such as Apple, Stripe, or Material.
Why use it?
It helps turn a requested look or brand direction into consistent design settings.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable.

Part of the ux-ui-agent-skills plugin — 26 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Applying styles such as editorial minimal, brutalist, dark-tech, or named systems such as Apple, Stripe, or Material.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills/apply-aesthetic
About the project

UX/UI Agent Skills is a set of instructions, design tokens, reusable components, accessibility rules, and design-system references that guide Claude in producing interface designs and code. It is intended for developers and designers who want framework-independent, token-based UI work with accessibility checks. The catalogue entries package these UX, UI, component, and validation workflows as Claude Code skills and related add-ons.

plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills · 3,108 stars · on GitHub · plugin87.github.io

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 plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill apply-aesthetic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ux-ui-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 690 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 6 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 7 Oct 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 $0.00102 $0.00690
Opus 5.5 $0.00041 $0.00276
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00069

Measured 12d ago against content hash e5262b590eb0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apply-aesthetic 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/skills/apply-aesthetic/SKILL.md · 28 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 28 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Apply Aesthetic

Step 0: is the kit here? This skill reads files from the kit. Check once: ls ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo KIT_OK || echo KIT_MISSING On KIT_MISSING only the skill folders were installed, which is what npx skills add does. Say so plainly, point the user at npx ux-ui-agent-skills init or the plugin install, and stop. Do not guess the contents of a file you could not open.

Choose and apply a design direction without breaking accessibility.

Steps

  1. Brief Inference first (mandatory). Before any tokens, name it: industry/domain, audience & tone, the one mood adjective the result must earn, motion depth, and the layout-family sequence (${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../taste/design-taste.md → Brief Inference + Variance Mandate). Generating before deciding = slop.
  2. Pick a direction in ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../taste/aesthetic-systems.md:
    • An archetype (recipe mapped to our tokens), or
    • A named library system: browse with python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../scripts/design_systems.py list (or search <term> / show <name>). Then run node ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../scripts/library.mjs get <name> and read the DESIGN.md at the path it prints. An npm install carries the index and no spec, so this is what fetches it (checked against the sha256 the kit ships); where the spec is already on disk it fetches nothing. If it prints refused, say the spec could not be fetched and pick from an archetype instead; never write a spec from memory.
  3. Apply the Library Contract (in aesthetic-systems.md): re-point semantic.* tokens to the chosen system's color roles; map typography/spacing/radius/shadow/motion to ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens/*.json.
  4. Verify contrast of every mapped color pair (${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../scripts/contrast.py / a11y-audit). A brand value that fails must be adjusted. Taste never overrides POUR.
  5. Add motion per ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../taste/motion-choreography.md; run the pre-flight aesthetic check in design-taste.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 28 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 Changed · +1 tokens per session e5262b590eb0
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines 42a15efeb515
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 22 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 7380c8932f5f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apply-aesthetic is a skill published in the GitHub repository plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills (3,108 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 690 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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