frontend-design-deslop

frontend-design-deslop is a skill for Claude Code from samber/cc-skills. It costs 172 tokens per session (4,294 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design workflow for building distinctive websites and applications based on the project’s purpose, audience, brand personality, typography, colors, layout, and interaction details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design landing pages, SaaS products, dashboards, online shops, presentations, documentation sites, and portfolios.
Why use it?
It helps avoid generic-looking interfaces by choosing a clear visual direction before implementing the UI.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the cc-skills plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design landing pages, SaaS products, dashboards, online shops, presentations, documentation sites, and portfolios.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/samber/cc-skills/frontend-design-deslop
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 samber/cc-skills --skill frontend-design-deslop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samber/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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Per session 172 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,294 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 2 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 2 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 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 $0.00172 $0.04294
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.02147
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00859
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00429

Measured 6d ago against content hash 653c74f73b29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frontend-design-deslop 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.

skills/frontend-design-deslop/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Questions: Ask the user through the environment's question tool — never as plain-text prose. One question at a time, 2–4 tappable options, wait for the answer. If the environment has no question tool, ask in prose with the same options, one at a time.

frontend design deslop

AI-generated UI looks generic for two reasons:

  1. No constraints. The model samples the statistical median of 2019-2024 web code — Tailwind UI's bg-indigo-500, Inter, rounded cards, soft shadows. You cannot out-prompt a vacuum.
  2. Designing before knowing what you're designing. A corporate landing page, a creative portfolio, a developer-tool landing page, an analytics dashboard, and an ecommerce product page share almost no design DNA — a beautiful aesthetic that fights the artifact's job is its own slop.

The fix is a discipline borrowed from brand design: strategy drives design, never aesthetics first.

  1. Commit to words first — what this is, who it serves, the adjectives it must feel like.
  2. Translate those words into a typography and color system.
  3. Build from tokens.
  4. Apply the craft layer (layout, components, motion, iconography, imagery, dark mode, accessibility).
  5. Audit.

Target the convergence mechanism, not a frozen blocklist; the slop fingerprint shifts over time (purple gradients in 2022, cream backgrounds and italic-serif heroes in 2026).

This skill does two jobs at once: it de-slops the default AI look, and it designs applications well. A distinctive theme on top of careless components, weak layout, or thoughtless motion still reads as amateur. The mechanisms behind every choice live in references/design-theory.md (hierarchy, Gestalt, CRAP, signal-vs-noise, affordances, the interaction laws); read it once so the rest is reasoning rather than rule-following.

Asking questions (CRITICAL)

Every single user question must go through the question tool (see the Questions: directive above) — never as plain-text prose. The bank is generous; the asking is selective. Do not interrogate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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. 6d ago Changed · +39 lines · -51 tokens per session 653c74f73b29
  2. 11d ago First seen · 133 lines · 223 tokens per session scan A 6919b3c9ee46

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frontend-design-deslop is a skill published in the GitHub repository samber/cc-skills (209 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 172 tokens to every session and 4,294 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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