check-design-parity-figma

check-design-parity-figma is a skill for Claude Code from southleft/skills-for-figma. It costs 171 tokens per session (1,003 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of figma-check-design-parity, MIT.

A checker that compares a component's design in Figma, a collaborative design tool, with the values rendered by its code. It reports a 0–100 match score, differences, severity, and suggested fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check sizes, colors, spacing, typography, and other component properties against a Figma node before release.
Why use it?
It helps find design-to-code drift: changes or mistakes that make the implemented component differ from the approved design.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the skills-for-figma plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check sizes, colors, spacing, typography, and other component properties against a Figma node before release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/southleft/skills-for-figma/check-design-parity-figma
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 southleft/skills-for-figma --skill check-design-parity-figma
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/southleft/skills-for-figma

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-for-figma, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 171 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,003 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 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 $0.00171 $0.01003
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00100

Measured 12d ago against content hash 09d7dcae7214, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-design-parity-figma 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check-parity.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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 figma-check-design-parity — 14 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/check-design-parity-figma/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

check-design-parity-figma — design vs code drift checker

Pull a Figma node's real specs and diff them against a codeSpec (what your implementation actually renders). Returns a weighted parity score, per-property discrepancies with severity, and suggested fixes. This is the inverse of code generation: get_design_context turns a design into code; this skill confirms the code didn't drift away from the design.

All design reads go through use_figma, so it works on any Figma plan.

Skill boundaries

  • use_figma rules — load the official figma-use skill first; it is the full Figma Plugin API reference. Essentials these scripts rely on: plain JS with top-level await + return (no IIFE, no figma.closePlugin(); console.log is not returned), inputs inlined as const at the top of each script, colors in 0–1 range, load fonts before any text op, await figma.getNodeByIdAsync(...), and atomic errors (a failed script applies nothing — read the error, fix, retry).
  • Generating code from a design → that's the native get_design_context; this skill validates, not generates.
  • CODE-side a11y to feed codeSpec.accessibility → use scan-code-accessibility-figma (--map-to-codespec emits exactly that object).
  • Design-side WCAG lint → use lint-design-figma.

Workflow

  1. Assemble the codeSpec. Gather the values your component renders into the codeSpec object (references/parity-scoring.md has the full shape). You only need to fill the sections you want compared — visual, spacing, typography, accessibility. Tip: scan-code-accessibility-figma --map-to-codespec builds codeSpec.accessibility automatically.
  2. Read the design specs. Set NODE_ID and paste your codeSpec into scripts/check-parity.js. Run it via use_figma (skillNames: "check-design-parity-figma"). It extracts the node's fills, strokes, corner radius, opacity, padding/gap, and text properties, then diffs them against the codeSpec.
  3. Read the scorecard. summary.parityScore is max(0, 100 − (critical×15 + major×8 + minor×3 + info×1)). discrepancies[] lists each mismatch with category, property, severity, designValue, codeValue, and a suggestion.
  4. Decide which side to fix. Each discrepancy says what design has vs what code has. Update code to match the design, or push the design to match an intentional code change (via manage-variables-figma / figma-use), then re-run to confirm the score rose.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 48 lines · 171 tokens per session scan A 09d7dcae7214

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check-design-parity-figma is a skill published in the GitHub repository southleft/skills-for-figma (14 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 171 tokens to every session and 1,003 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to figma-check-design-parity, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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