design-vocabulary

design-vocabulary is a skill for Claude Code from sukirman1901/frontend-expert. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,971 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for naming visual and layout ideas from informal descriptions. It translates phrases such as a floating card over blur or a zig-zag layout into standard design terms and short definitions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone describes a UI effect or layout without knowing its usual name. It helps identify terms for structures such as sidebars, full-width sections, overlapping layers, and alternating rows.
Why use it?
It makes vague design discussions easier to understand and search for. Using a shared term reduces confusion during implementation and handoff.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the frontend-expert plugin — 33 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when someone describes a UI effect or layout without knowing its usual name. It helps identify terms for structures such as sidebars, full-width sections, overlapping layers, and alternating rows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sukirman1901/frontend-expert/design-vocabulary
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add sukirman1901/frontend-expert --skill design-vocabulary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sukirman1901/frontend-expert

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install frontend-expert, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,971 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 $0.00073 $0.01971
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00986
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00197

Measured 11d ago against content hash 140a42d96c3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-vocabulary 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 11d 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/design-vocabulary/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Vocabulary

Overview

Bridge the gap between casual descriptions and precise design terms. When a user (or you) describes a UI concept loosely, look it up here before implementing.

When to use

  • User describes a UI element informally ("yang ngambang itu", "efek kaca")
  • You need the precise term to search references/ or implementation patterns
  • Communicating design decisions in a handoff or audit

When to skip

  • User already uses the correct term
  • Pure code fix with no design concept involved

Lookup table

Layout & Structure

Description (loose) Term Definition
Cards in different sizes grid Bento grid / Masonry Asymmetric grid where items have varied sizes
Zig-zag text and image Alternating layout Rows alternate image-left/image-right
Content in the center, nothing on sides Centered container / Max-width wrapper Content constrained to a max-width, centered
Two columns, one narrow one wide Sidebar layout / Holy grail Classic sidebar + main content split
Full-width edge-to-edge Full-bleed Content extends to viewport edges
Overlapping elements Z-stack / Overlapping composition Elements layered via absolute/grid overlap
Split screen half and half Split hero / 50-50 layout Two equal panels side by side
Sticky thing that follows scroll Sticky element position: sticky — stays in view within parent
Content that pins while other scrolls Scroll-linked pinning One panel fixed while adjacent content scrolls
Cards that can be dragged to reorder Drag-and-drop sortable Reorderable list/grid via drag interaction

Components & Patterns

Description (loose) Term Definition
Popup that asks "are you sure?" Confirmation dialog / Alert dialog Modal requiring explicit confirm/cancel
Small notification that auto-hides Toast / Snackbar Temporary status message, auto-dismisses
Menu that appears on right-click Context menu Action menu anchored to pointer position
Box floating near a button Popover / Tooltip Non-modal overlay anchored to a trigger
Menu from the side Drawer / Sheet / Sidebar panel Slide-in panel from screen edge
Bottom sheet on mobile Bottom sheet Drawer that slides up from bottom on mobile
Dot on an icon showing count Badge / Notification badge Small count/status indicator on an element
Expandable section with arrow Accordion / Disclosure Collapsible content section with toggle
Tabs but vertical Vertical tabs / Tab rail Tab navigation stacked vertically
Stepper showing progress Stepper / Wizard progress Multi-step form progress indicator
Chips you can select/remove Tag / Chip / Pill Compact element for input, filter, or display
Search with dropdown suggestions Combobox / Autocomplete Input + filtered suggestion dropdown
Toggle that slides Switch / Toggle Binary on/off control with sliding thumb
Skeleton boxes before content loads Skeleton screen / Placeholder Animated loading placeholders mimicking layout
Lightbox for images Lightbox / Image modal Full-screen overlay for viewing images
Infinite scroll Infinite scroll / Pagination by scroll Load more items when nearing bottom
Breadcrumb trail Breadcrumbs Hierarchical navigation trail (Home > Category > Item)
Floating button bottom-right FAB (Floating Action Button) Persistent primary action floating on page
Card with image on top Media card / Card with hero Card component with prominent top image
Data table with sorting Data table / Data grid Table with sort, filter, pagination features
Command palette (Cmd+K) Command palette / Command bar Quick-action search overlay

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 11d ago First seen · 149 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 140a42d96c3d

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design-vocabulary is a skill published in the GitHub repository sukirman1901/frontend-expert (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,971 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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