design

design is a skill for Claude Code from Tradebaas/Groundwork. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-system and writing guide for establishing a project's visual style, interface approach, and brand voice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define the visual foundation, choose a component library or custom approach, set voice guidelines, and record the design decisions behind the finished product.
Why use it?
It gives interface work a documented direction and keeps the product's appearance and wording consistent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the vibe plugin — 13 skills, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to define the visual foundation, choose a component library or custom approach, set voice guidelines, and record the design decisions behind the finished product.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tradebaas/groundwork/design
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 Tradebaas/Groundwork --skill design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tradebaas/Groundwork

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vibe, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 3 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,709 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 $0.00106 $0.01709
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00684
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00171

Measured 16d ago against content hash 749d909ce3bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 16d 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/vibe/skills/design/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

design: nothing ships looking or sounding like a default

docs/DESIGN.md sections 1 and 2 and docs/design/VOICE.md carry the durable principles and the owner's standing taste. DESIGN.md section 3 is written from the built world, after the finish review (step 4), never before: a rulebook written ahead of the build gets defended against reality instead of describing it. docs/PRODUCT.md beside DESIGN.md holds what the brief does not own: platform, brand commitments, evidence on hand, accessibility needs. A fact that stands in both files will disagree with itself later, so PRODUCT.md points at the brief for scope, users and purpose.

No DESIGN.md or VOICE.md in this project? Say so, ask the two questions in step 1, and write both files from the answers before any interface work; a project without a design system gets one the first time it needs one.

1. Ask the owner: only what is theirs

  1. Brand reality: existing logo, colors, fonts, brand guide? If yes, that is binding: collect the files into docs/design/reference/ and carry them as a brand commitment. If no, nothing is blocked; the direction round derives a brand with the owner.
  2. Voice: product language (NL/EN/...), register (je/u/you), and whether this audience changes the standing voice default in VOICE.md.

Feel, accent, temperature and visual references are not asked here. They are the substance of the direction round in step 3, where the owner sees them rendered instead of described.

2. Choose the UI foundation: one source of truth for all UI

Before anything is made, exactly one foundation is fixed for this project's UI: a component library themed with the owner's brand, or a bespoke system of the project's own tokens and components. Bespoke is right when the look is part of the product's value, the brand requirements are strong, or the owner wants zero UI dependencies.

Do the research and arrive with one recommendation in a short paragraph: what it is, why it fits this product, what it costs, and the one real alternative beside it with what would have to be true to prefer it (bespoke is the named alternative to every library, and vice versa). Verify the candidate's maintenance, licence and accessibility from its official docs, live, never model memory. docs/design/reference/ui-library-showcase.html holds one page per common React library plus the bespoke option; say it exists and open it on request, never hand it over as homework.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 16d ago Changed · -87 lines · +106 tokens per session 749d909ce3bf
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +45 lines 5d1d0b596df8
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 152 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e83274d540d5

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design is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tradebaas/Groundwork (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,709 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.