rico-design-md

rico-design-md is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ricocc/rico-skills. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,516 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns a website into design-system documents, such as DESIGN.md, design tokens, CSS variables, or theme files. Design tokens are named values for colors, spacing, fonts, and similar visual rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a website's brand and interface, extract tokens and CSS variables, create a DESIGN.md or preview page, or convert between supported design-document formats.
Why use it?
It helps developers capture a site's visual language in reusable, structured files instead of guessing or copying styles inconsistently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to analyze a website's brand and interface, extract tokens and CSS variables, create a DESIGN.md or preview page, or convert between supported design-document formats.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ricocc/rico-skills/rico-design-md
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 ricocc/rico-skills --skill rico-design-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ricocc/rico-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,516 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 $0.00127 $0.02516
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01258
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00503
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00252

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9674ddb72f3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rico-design-md 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.

skills/rico-design-md/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Get Design MD

Convert any website into design system documents, or convert between formats.

Do's

  • Read the reference example first. Before generating any format, read the matching file in references/themes-github/ to match structure exactly. This prevents format drift.
  • Use semantic token names. Name tokens by role (ink, surface-1, accent-blue) not by appearance (vapor-white, charcoal-canvas) — unless the descriptive name is the brand's own.
  • Capture full CSS syntax for shadows. Write rgba(255,255,255,0.1) 0 0.5px 0 0.5px, not "subtle shadow". Downstream consumers need parseable values.
  • Document every observed component state. Hover, focus, active, selected — each state changes CSS properties. Missing states mean incomplete implementation.
  • Verify color values against screenshots. CSS inspection can miss overlay effects, gradient blends, and browser-specific rendering. Cross-check with visual evidence.
  • Provide open-source font substitutes. Proprietary fonts (GT Walsheim, Söhne) need alternatives (Mona Sans, Inter, DM Sans) for anyone implementing the design.
  • Include $description in tokens.json. Each token needs a human-readable description explaining its intended use — this is the DTCG standard and prevents misuse.
  • Write brand voice as design critique. The overview paragraph should read like a designer describing the brand's visual personality, not a feature list.

Don'ts

  • Don't invent placeholder values. If a token category is missing from the source (e.g., no shadows observed), skip it and note the gap. Fabricated values break trust.
  • Don't mix tokens from multiple themes. If a site has light and dark modes, ask the user which to document. If the dark mode is visually distinct (e.g., Linear, Supabase), offer to generate a separate dark/ subdirectory with its own 4 files. Never blend tokens from both themes into one document.
  • Don't use generic Do's/Don'ts in DESIGN.md. Every rule must reference a specific token or property. "Use good contrast" is useless; "Reserve accent-blue for hyperlinks and focus rings only" is actionable.
  • Don't omit letter-spacing and line-height. Typography tokens without these are incomplete — tracking and leading define the brand voice as much as font-size.
  • Don't flatten complex shadows into single values. Layered shadows (light-edge + drop) must be preserved as-is, not simplified to a single box-shadow.
  • Don't skip the brand voice paragraph. It's the design rationale that guides future decisions. Without it, the document is just a token dump.

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 12d ago First seen · 220 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 9674ddb72f3e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rico-design-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository ricocc/rico-skills (272 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,516 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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