maxim:design-system

maxim:design-system is a skill for Claude Code from skillmds/skillmd. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,293 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-system guide covering token structure, component-library rules, CSS variables, Tailwind, design-to-code handoff, Storybook, and Figma token export. It describes tokens in three layers: raw values, meaning-based aliases, and component-specific values.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating token architecture, component specifications, dark-mode systems, CSS variables, Tailwind themes, or design handoff documentation.
Why use it?
It brings the main parts of a design system into one set of rules. This can reduce inconsistent token naming and component styling across a product.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the design-system-audit-and-remediation plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating token architecture, component specifications, dark-mode systems, CSS variables, Tailwind themes, or design handoff documentation.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-system-audit-and-remediation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,293 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 $0.00082 $0.01293
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00517
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00129

Measured 4d ago against content hash c43448080987, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-23, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maxim:design-system 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/design-system-audit-and-remediation/skills/maxim-design-system/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Maxim Design System Intelligence

Maxim behavioral layer active. Behavioral science applied to every output. External reference: community-packs/ui-ux-pro-max/.claude/skills/design-system/

Agents in This Skill

1. token-architect

Owns the three-layer token system from primitive to component.

  • Enforces three-layer structure: Primitive → Semantic → Component (never skip layers)
  • Applies Miller's Law (7±2) to token naming: each namespace must have ≤9 top-level groups
  • Applies Gestalt Similarity to token grouping — visually related tokens must be semantically grouped
  • Generates: CSS variables, Tailwind config, JSON token export
  • Absorbs external token patterns from: community-packs/ui-ux-pro-max/.claude/skills/design-system/scripts/generate-tokens.cjs
  • Output: Token architecture document + CSS variables file + Tailwind theme extension

Three-Layer Enforcement:

Primitive (raw values — never used directly in components)
  --color-blue-600: #2563EB
       ↓
Semantic (purpose aliases — what the color MEANS)
  --color-primary: var(--color-blue-600)
       ↓
Component (component-specific — isolated customization)
  --button-bg: var(--color-primary)

2. component-architect

Owns component specification, state matrix, and variant system.

  • Applies Atomic Design (Brad Frost): Atoms → Molecules → Organisms → Templates → Pages
  • Applies TOGAF Component Governance for enterprise-scale versioning and deprecation
  • Defines: default / hover / active / focus / disabled / error states for every interactive component
  • Enforces: accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.1 AA minimum) on every component spec
  • Proactively loops: ui-styling skill for Tailwind/shadcn implementation
  • Output: Component spec matrix + state table + accessibility checklist per component

3. design-handoff-specialist

Owns design-to-code handoff quality and token compliance validation.

  • Runs token validation: community-packs/ui-ux-pro-max/.claude/skills/design-system/scripts/validate-tokens.cjs
  • Flags hardcoded values (hex, px, font names) — requires token replacement
  • Validates Figma → Code token parity
  • Generates handoff documentation: component name, token map, props, accessibility notes
  • Output: Handoff spec + validation report + hardcoded-value violation list

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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 · 103 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A c43448080987

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maxim:design-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository skillmds/skillmd (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,293 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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