paper-design

paper-design is a skill for Claude Code from tdimino/claude-code-minoan. It costs 119 tokens per session (1,458 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A connection between Paper Design, a visual tool for building web interfaces, and React projects. It also includes a React library of ready-made visual effects called shaders.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read and edit Paper designs, convert them to React and Tailwind code, import HTML/CSS, and synchronize design tokens. The shader library provides effects such as gradients, glass, liquid metal, rays, halftone, and grain.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of copying designs into code or recreating coded interfaces in the design tool. It keeps design tokens and visual effects closer to the implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to read and edit Paper designs, convert them to React and Tailwind code, import HTML/CSS, and synchronize design tokens. The shader library provides effects such as gradients, glass, liquid metal, rays, halftone, and grain.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/paper-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tdimino/claude-code-minoan --skill paper-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tdimino/claude-code-minoan

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,458 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 4
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00119 $0.01458
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00729
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00146

Measured 10d ago against content hash d63ae2492f16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-design 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/health-check.py, scripts/setup.sh), 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.

skills/design-media/paper-design/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read and write designs in Paper via MCP. Paper is a DOM-based design tool — designs are HTML/CSS structures that Claude reads and writes natively.

Prerequisites

Paper Desktop must be running before starting Claude Code. The app auto-starts an MCP server at http://127.0.0.1:29979/mcp. Run python3 ~/.claude/skills/paper-design/scripts/health-check.py to verify connection. If the MCP server is not registered, run bash ~/.claude/skills/paper-design/scripts/setup.sh.

Paper vs Pencil

Use Paper for design-to-code, code-to-design, and rapid prototyping (native DOM). Use Pencil for reusable design systems, existing .pen files, and presentations. Full comparison: references/paper-vs-pencil.md

Paper Shaders

Paper also ships a standalone React shader library — @paper-design/shaders-react — used independently of the MCP workflow. Install with npm i @paper-design/shaders-react and import named components like MeshGradient, FlutedGlass, LiquidMetal, HalftoneCMYK, GodRays. 30+ shaders across three categories (Image Filters, Logo Animations, Effects). Zero dependencies beyond React.

Reach for Paper Shaders when the goal is to use a designer-tuned effect as a React component with named props. Reach for threejs-particle-canvas, grainient, or rocaille-shader when the goal is custom particle systems, grainient.supply-style page aesthetics, or pointer-reactive DOM distortion — those skills have different strengths. Shaders authored in Paper-the-tool export as the matching React component via get_jsx; prop names map 1:1 onto the sliders in each shader panel.

Full catalog, per-category tables, and integration notes: references/shaders.md.

Workflow

Every Paper interaction follows four phases: Orient, Create, Verify, Export.

1. Orient

Read document state before making changes. Call get_basic_info for file name, page name, artboard list. Call get_tree_summary with an optional depth limit for structure overview. Call get_selection when the user says "this element" or "the selected thing."

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 10d ago First seen · 89 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A d63ae2492f16

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paper-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository tdimino/claude-code-minoan (41 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 1,458 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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