design-system-patterns

design-system-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from recomposesh/recompose. It costs 42 tokens per session (890 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building design systems: shared rules and reusable components for colors, typography, spacing, themes, and interface behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create design tokens, theme switching, component libraries, multi-brand styles, documentation, or Figma-to-code workflows.
Why use it?
It helps keep interfaces consistent across pages, brands, platforms, and light or dark themes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/recomposesh/recompose/design-system-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add recomposesh/recompose --skill design-system-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/recomposesh/recompose

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 890 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00042 $0.00890
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00089

Measured 3d ago against content hash 618355f0e6c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-system-patterns 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/design-system-patterns/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design System Patterns

Master design system architecture to create consistent, maintainable, and scalable UI foundations across web and mobile applications.

When to Use This Skill

  • Creating design tokens for colors, typography, spacing, and shadows
  • Implementing light/dark theme switching with CSS custom properties
  • Building multi-brand theming systems
  • Architecting component libraries with consistent APIs
  • Establishing design-to-code workflows with Figma tokens
  • Creating semantic token hierarchies (primitive, semantic, component)
  • Setting up design system documentation and guidelines

Core Capabilities

1. Design Tokens

  • Primitive tokens (raw values: colors, sizes, fonts)
  • Semantic tokens (contextual meaning: text-primary, surface-elevated)
  • Component tokens (specific usage: button-bg, card-border)
  • Token naming conventions and organization
  • Multi-platform token generation (CSS, iOS, Android)

2. Theming Infrastructure

  • CSS custom properties architecture
  • Theme context providers in React
  • Dynamic theme switching
  • System preference detection (prefers-color-scheme)
  • Persistent theme storage
  • Reduced motion and high contrast modes

3. Component Architecture

  • Compound component patterns
  • Polymorphic components (as prop)
  • Variant and size systems
  • Slot-based composition
  • Headless UI patterns
  • Style props and responsive variants

4. Token Pipeline

  • Figma to code synchronization
  • Style Dictionary configuration
  • Token transformation and formatting
  • CI/CD integration for token updates

Quick Start

// Design tokens with CSS custom properties
const tokens = {
  colors: {
    // Primitive tokens
    gray: {
      50: "#fafafa",
      100: "#f5f5f5",
      900: "#171717",
    },
    blue: {
      500: "#3b82f6",
      600: "#2563eb",
    },
  },
  // Semantic tokens (reference primitives)
  semantic: {
    light: {
      "text-primary": "var(--color-gray-900)",
      "text-secondary": "var(--color-gray-600)",
      "surface-default": "var(--color-white)",
      "surface-elevated": "var(--color-gray-50)",
      "border-default": "var(--color-gray-200)",
      "interactive-primary": "var(--color-blue-500)",
    },
    dark: {
      "text-primary": "var(--color-gray-50)",
      "text-secondary": "var(--color-gray-400)",
      "surface-default": "var(--color-gray-900)",
      "surface-elevated": "var(--color-gray-800)",
      "border-default": "var(--color-gray-700)",
      "interactive-primary": "var(--color-blue-400)",
    },
  },
};

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 116 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 618355f0e6c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-system-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository recomposesh/recompose (26 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 890 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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