use-design

use-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from the-sid-dani/second-brain-os. It costs 98 tokens per session (555 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workspace command that changes which brand design rules are active by copying that brand’s palette, typography, and layout file into the project root.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to switch to a named brand style, see available brands, or preserve customized design settings while changing the active system.
Why use it?
It avoids changing design settings by hand and gives design-related tools one consistent source of rules.

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/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os/use-design
Any agent
npx skills add the-sid-dani/second-brain-os --skill use-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-sid-dani/second-brain-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 555 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00098 $0.00555
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00056

Measured 5d ago against content hash ea671fa8d57b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/use-design/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

use-design — swap the active design system

The design-* skills read ./DESIGN.md at the workspace root for their tokens (palette, typography, layout rules). This skill swaps that file for a different brand from the design-system catalog.

Resolve <workspace.root> and <workspace.resources> from the Configuration section in root CLAUDE.md before using any path below.

Steps

  1. Resolve the brand argument. The invocation is /use-design <brand> (e.g. /use-design stripe). If no brand is given, or the brand doesn't match a folder, list what's available and stop:

    ls <workspace.root>/<workspace.resources>/design-systems/
    

    Match case-insensitively and accept close variants (linearlinear-app). If the match is ambiguous, show the candidates and ask.

  2. Verify the source exists at <workspace.root>/<workspace.resources>/design-systems/<brand>/DESIGN.md. If the folder exists but has no DESIGN.md, say so — don't invent tokens.

  3. Preserve the current root DESIGN.md if it has been customized: before overwriting, check whether root DESIGN.md differs from every catalog brand. If it matches a catalog brand, it's safe to overwrite (the catalog still has it). If it matches nothing, it's custom — copy it to <workspace.root>/<workspace.resources>/design-systems/custom-<YYYY-MM-DD>/DESIGN.md first and tell the user.

  4. Copy the brand file to the workspace root:

    cp <workspace.root>/<workspace.resources>/design-systems/<brand>/DESIGN.md ./DESIGN.md
    
  5. Confirm in one line: which brand is now active, and remind that all design-* skills pick it up on their next invocation.

Boundaries

  • Never edit the catalog files under design-systems/ — they're the library; only root DESIGN.md changes.
  • This skill swaps tokens only. It does not restyle existing artifacts — re-run the relevant design-* skill to regenerate them under the new brand.
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. 5d ago First seen · 38 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A ea671fa8d57b

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use-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-sid-dani/second-brain-os (2 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 555 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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