agentic-design-systems

agentic-design-systems is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thedesignproject/agent-skills. It costs 136 tokens per session (2,528 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for designing component libraries that AI coding agents can understand through structured information about components, options, design tokens, relationships, and mistakes to avoid. A component library is a shared collection of interface building blocks such as buttons and dialogs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, updating, or checking a component library intended for AI use, including adding machine-readable metadata to an existing library.
Why use it?
It helps an AI agent choose existing components and their correct options instead of inventing inconsistent interface patterns.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when creating, updating, or checking a component library intended for AI use, including adding machine-readable metadata to an existing library.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thedesignproject/agent-skills/agentic-design-systems
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 thedesignproject/agent-skills --skill agentic-design-systems
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thedesignproject/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,528 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00136 $0.02528
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01264
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00253

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2658d07d93a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-design-systems 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 9d 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/agentic-design-systems/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agentic Design Systems

When this skill triggers, you're helping the user build, extend, or audit a component library whose primary consumer is an AI agent. The bar: given a prose request like "Build a confirmation modal with a destructive action," an agent picks the right component, the right variant, and the right tokens — without inventing patterns.

This skill gives you the schema, the workflow, and the principles. Adapt it to where the user is.


Diagnose first

Before producing anything, figure out which mode applies:

  • Greenfield — user is starting a new system intended for agent consumption. Walk through the build workflow. Start with the schema and one worked component (Button is canonical); don't try to scaffold everything at once.
  • Retrofitting — user has a component library and wants to make it agent-readable. Skip workspace setup. Add meta.types.ts, then write a .meta.ts per component, then build the index and validator. Anti-patterns first (see Step 5).
  • Auditing — user has metadata already. Score each component against the four pillars and the validator checks. Flag missing relationships, prose anti-patterns, raw global tokens, and ungrounded variant axes.
  • Single component — user wants to add or fix one component. Generate the full file set in Step 3. Metadata ships with the component or it doesn't ship.

If the prompt is ambiguous, ask one targeted question — don't guess.


The four pillars

Treat every component as the intersection of four things. Most metadata schemas only model the first; that's why agents misuse the components.

Pillar What it answers Failure mode if missing
Props What you set (always present)
Variants Which combination to pick Agent picks invalid combinations
Relationships Where the component fits structurally and a11y-wise Agent generates code that compiles but is structurally wrong
Tokens (component-scoped) Which design values bind to this component Agent invents colors and spacing

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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. 9d ago First seen · 208 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 2658d07d93a7

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agentic-design-systems is a skill published in the GitHub repository thedesignproject/agent-skills (86 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 2,528 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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