IBM-design-analysis

IBM-design-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from skillmds/skillmd. It costs 135 tokens per session (6,896 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A visual design guide for building IBM-style marketing pages with Carbon Design System rules. It defines colors, IBM Plex Sans typography, borders, spacing, and square shapes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or implement IBM-branded landing pages, buttons, cards, forms, and page layouts.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when making a page look consistent with IBM’s enterprise design language. It also helps prevent unrelated visual choices such as rounded controls, gradients, or extra accent colors.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cloud-devops plugin — 23 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan or implement IBM-branded landing pages, buttons, cards, forms, and page layouts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skillmds/skillmd/ibm-design-analysis
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 skillmds/skillmd --skill ibm-design-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skillmds/skillmd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloud-devops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills.

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Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,896 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 $0.00135 $0.06896
Opus 5.5 $0.00054 $0.02758
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.01379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00690

Measured 4d ago against content hash f6846fc9d5aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-23, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

IBM-design-analysis 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 4d 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.

plugins/cloud-devops/skills/ibm-design-analysis/SKILL.md · 551 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 551 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

IBM's marketing system is a faithful application of Carbon Design System — IBM's open-source enterprise design system. The dominant surface is {colors.canvas} pure white with {colors.surface-1} light gray for elevation, charcoal {colors.ink} (#161616) for text, and IBM Blue {colors.primary} (#0f62fe) as the single brand accent.

The defining choice is flat geometry: every CTA, every card, every input, every container uses square corners ({rounded.none} 0px) with thin 1px borders. There are no rounded pills, no soft shadows, no atmospheric gradients. The system is engineered, not stylized.

IBM Plex Sans carries the entire type hierarchy. Display sizes (76 / 60 / 42px) run at weight 300 — IBM's signature light display treatment that makes 76px feel calmer than competing brands' 700-weight display. Body type sits at weight 400 with letter-spacing: 0.16px (a Carbon precision detail) and line-height 1.50. The voice reads as careful, technical, and trustworthy.

The system reaches for color rarely — IBM Blue marks links, primary CTAs, and the rare full-bleed CTA banner. Charcoal carries every other surface that isn't white. The result is enterprise gravitas without the enterprise stiffness: rigorous, light-weighted, and intentionally restrained.

Key Characteristics:

  • Carbon Design System — IBM's marketing chrome IS Carbon. Buttons are square, inputs are square-with-bottom-rule, corners stay at 0px.
  • Light-weight display type: Plex Sans at weight 300 for 42–76px headlines is the brand's typographic signature.
  • One accent color: {colors.primary} IBM Blue carries every link, primary CTA, and CTA banner. There is no second brand color.
  • White canvas + light gray ({colors.surface-1}) + charcoal ({colors.ink}) cover 95% of surfaces.
  • Footer inverts to charcoal ({colors.inverse-canvas} #161616) — the only dark surface above the page break.
  • Card hierarchy is carried by 1px hairlines and surface change, never by drop shadow.
  • letter-spacing: 0.16px on body is a Carbon precision detail — the small positive tracking is part of the brand voice.
  • Page rhythm: utility bar → top nav → hero with light-weight headline → feature card grid → customer logo marquee → enterprise feature row → training section → newsletter / sign-in CTA → dark footer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 551 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. 4d ago First seen · 551 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A f6846fc9d5aa

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IBM-design-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository skillmds/skillmd (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 6,896 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-19.

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