design-system-governance

design-system-governance is a skill for Claude Code from tan-yong-sheng/ai-vision-mcp. It costs 28 tokens per session (3,713 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for assessing how mature and consistently used a design system is. A design system is a shared set of interface components, styles, and rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate design-system adoption, component duplication, custom-versus-shared component use, governance gaps, and design-debt trends.
Why use it?
It helps reveal duplicated components, weak adoption, missing governance, and growing design debt. It also provides maturity levels and measures such as reuse and documentation coverage.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the design-eval plugin — 5 skills, 5 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to evaluate design-system adoption, component duplication, custom-versus-shared component use, governance gaps, and design-debt trends.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tan-yong-sheng/ai-vision-mcp/design-system-maturity-governance
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 tan-yong-sheng/ai-vision-mcp --skill design-system-maturity-governance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tan-yong-sheng/ai-vision-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-eval, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 5 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,713 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 $0.00028 $0.03713
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01857
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00743
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00371

Measured 12d ago against content hash a7c6e6e53f59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-system-governance 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.

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-eval/skills/design-system-maturity-governance/SKILL.md · 574 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 574 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design System Governance

Deep guidance for assessing design system maturity, adoption health, and governance effectiveness.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Evaluating design system adoption and governance health
  • Assessing design system maturity level (1-4 scale)
  • Analyzing component duplication and consolidation opportunities
  • Calculating custom vs system component ratios
  • Identifying adoption barriers and governance gaps
  • Tracking design debt trends and metrics
  • Making strategic governance recommendations

Design System Maturity Model

Level 1: Ad-hoc (No System)

Characteristics:

  • No formal design system exists
  • 100% custom components created per project
  • No governance process or standards
  • High maintenance burden and inconsistency
  • Designers/developers work independently

Metrics:

  • Design system adoption: 0%
  • Component reuse rate: <10%
  • Unique component count: Very high (100+)
  • Custom component ratio: 100%
  • Documentation coverage: <20%

Transition To Level 2:

  • Define core design principles
  • Create baseline component library
  • Document existing patterns
  • Establish governance committee
  • Communicate vision to teams

Level 2: Inconsistent (Emerging System)

Characteristics:

  • Design system exists but adoption is spotty (30-60%)
  • Mix of system components and custom variations
  • Informal governance process
  • Growing maintenance burden
  • Teams aware of system but don't consistently use it

Metrics:

  • Design system adoption: 30-60%
  • Component reuse rate: 20-40%
  • Unique component count: High (50-80)
  • Custom component ratio: 50-70%
  • Documentation coverage: 40-60%

Adoption Barriers (Typical):

  • System doesn't cover all use cases
  • Inconvenient process for requesting new components
  • Lack of clear governance process
  • Poor documentation or discoverability
  • Team doesn't see value in consistency

Transition To Level 3:

  • Expand component coverage (close gaps)
  • Establish component request process
  • Create clear governance guidelines
  • Improve documentation and discoverability
  • Enforce token usage in CI/CD
  • Provide team training and support

Read the full file on GitHub · 574 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 · 574 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A a7c6e6e53f59

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design-system-governance is a skill published in the GitHub repository tan-yong-sheng/ai-vision-mcp (78 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 3,713 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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