design-md

design-md is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from S3YED/appie-kit. It costs 14 tokens per session (1,831 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of design-md, MIT.

A format for describing a brand's visual identity with design tokens—exact values for things such as colors, spacing, and type—plus written guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for writing, validating, comparing, and exporting DESIGN.md files for consistent interfaces across projects.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a shared design reference and can check accessibility contrast, compare versions, and export tokens for other tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/s3yed/appie-kit/design-md
Any agent
npx skills add S3YED/appie-kit --skill design-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/S3YED/appie-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for design-md

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/s3yed/appie-kit/design-md.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/s3yed/appie-kit/design-md)
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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,831 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00014 $0.01831
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00915
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00183

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6338f959dd6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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

This is a copy

91% identical to design-md — 18 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/content/design-md/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DESIGN.md Skill

DESIGN.md is Google's open spec (Apache-2.0, google-labs-code/design.md) for describing a visual identity to coding agents. One file combines:

  • YAML front matter — machine-readable design tokens (normative values)
  • Markdown body — human-readable rationale, organized into canonical sections

Tokens give exact values. Prose tells agents why those values exist and how to apply them. The CLI (npx @google/design.md) lints structure + WCAG contrast, diffs versions for regressions, and exports to Tailwind or W3C DTCG JSON.

When to use this skill

  • User asks for a DESIGN.md file, design tokens, or a design system spec
  • User wants consistent UI/brand across multiple projects or tools
  • User pastes an existing DESIGN.md and asks to lint, diff, export, or extend it
  • User asks to port a style guide into a format agents can consume
  • User wants contrast / WCAG accessibility validation on their color palette

For purely visual inspiration or layout examples, use popular-web-designs instead. For process and taste when designing a one-off HTML artifact from scratch (prototype, deck, landing page, component lab), use claude-design. This skill is for the formal spec file itself.

File anatomy

---
version: alpha
name: Heritage
description: Architectural minimalism meets journalistic gravitas.
colors:
  primary: "#1A1C1E"
  secondary: "#6C7278"
  tertiary: "#B8422E"
  neutral: "#F7F5F2"
typography:
  h1:
    fontFamily: Public Sans
    fontSize: 3rem
    fontWeight: 700
    lineHeight: 1.1
    letterSpacing: "-0.02em"
  body-md:
    fontFamily: Public Sans
    fontSize: 1rem
rounded:
  sm: 4px
  md: 8px
  lg: 16px
spacing:
  sm: 8px
  md: 16px
  lg: 24px
components:
  button-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.tertiary}"
    textColor: "#FFFFFF"
    rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
    padding: 12px
  button-primary-hover:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.primary}"
---

## Overview

Architectural Minimalism meets Journalistic Gravitas...

## Colors

- **Primary (#1A1C1E):** Deep ink for headlines and core text.
- **Tertiary (#B8422E):** "Boston Clay" — the sole driver for interaction.

## Typography

Public Sans for everything except small all-caps labels...

## Components

`button-primary` is the only high-emphasis action on a page...

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 2d ago First seen · 199 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 6338f959dd6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository S3YED/appie-kit (7 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,831 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to design-md, differing in 18 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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