ui-design

A design-planning skill for deciding how an interface should look and work before it is built. It covers layout, typography, colors, visual hierarchy, specifications, and prototypes for web or mini-program interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan interface layouts, choose visual styles, write design specifications, create prototypes, or define the structure developers should build.
Why use it?
It helps turn an unclear visual direction into agreed design rules before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tencentcloudbase/cloudbase-skills/ui-design
Any agent
npx skills add TencentCloudBase/cloudbase-skills --skill ui-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TencentCloudBase/cloudbase-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,591 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00030 $0.03591
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01795
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00718
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00359

Measured today against content hash 570ef126f69e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ui-design scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 today.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **macOS / Linux**: `curl -L --fail -o assets/images/logo.png "https://example.com/logo.png"` (add `--create-dirs` if the parent folder doesn't exist; `wget` works too)
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to ui-design — 2 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/cloudbase/references/ui-design/SKILL.md · 341 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 341 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sibling skills (local only)

Sibling CloudBase skills ship beside this skill. Use local relative paths such as ../auth-tool-cloudbase/SKILL.md.

If a referenced sibling skill file is missing from this environment, ask the user to install the full CloudBase plugin (or the missing skill). Do not HTTP-fetch remote skill or protocol markdown into the agent context.

Activation Contract

Use this first when

  • The request is to decide visual direction, produce a design specification, create a prototype, or make layout, typography, color, and visual hierarchy choices for an interface.
  • The implementation should follow a deliberate aesthetic rather than directly coding an already-approved design.

Read before writing code if

  • The response must choose typography, color, spacing, layout strategy, or other visual rules before code exists.
  • The user asks for "design", "prototype", "look and feel", or "style" rather than straight implementation.

Then also read

  • Web implementation -> ../web-development/SKILL.md
  • Mini program implementation -> ../miniprogram-development/SKILL.md

Do NOT use for

  • Backend-only tasks, database design, or pure API work without interface output.
  • Straight implementation of an already-approved UI without new design decisions.
  • Generic frontend coding requests where the visual direction is already settled.

Common mistakes / gotchas

  • Writing JSX, WXML, or CSS before outputting the design specification.
  • Falling back to generic AI layouts instead of an explicit aesthetic direction.
  • Jumping into implementation when the design intent is still unclear.
  • Ignoring platform constraints after the visual concept is defined.

Minimal checklist

When to use this skill

Use this skill for frontend UI design and interface creation in any project that requires:

  • Creating web pages or interfaces
  • Creating mini-program pages or interfaces
  • Designing frontend components
  • Creating prototypes or interfaces
  • Handling styling and visual effects
  • Any development task involving user interfaces

Read the full file on GitHub · 341 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. today Changed 570ef126f69e
  2. 3d ago First seen · 341 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 439838c7e6f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ui-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository TencentCloudBase/cloudbase-skills (30 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 3,591 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to ui-design, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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