design-system

design-system is a skill for Claude Code from vmobifystudio/app-dev-team. It costs 72 tokens per session (579 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for building and extending a shared design system: named values for colours and spacing, semantic tokens, reusable components and defined component states.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define design tokens, document components and review interface changes across screens.
Why use it?
It prevents one-off styling and inconsistent components, making broad changes such as dark mode or rebranding easier to manage.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the app-dev-team plugin — 32 skills, 27 commands, 30 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps define design tokens, document components and review interface changes across screens.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vmobifystudio/app-dev-team/design-system
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 vmobifystudio/app-dev-team --skill design-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vmobifystudio/app-dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install app-dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 27 commands, 30 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 579 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 $0.00072 $0.00579
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00232
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00058

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f5bd945b638c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-system 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 1mo 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/design-system/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design system

A design system is not a document, it is a constraint that holds at build time. Tokens nobody is forced to use are a colour list.

Three layers, in this order

  1. Primitive — the raw values. blue-600 #2563EB, space-4 16, dur-fast 150ms. No screen ever references a primitive directly.
  2. Semantic — what it means. text/primary, surface/elevated, semantic/error, motion/enter. Screens reference these and only these.
  3. Component — what a component uses. button/primary/background → semantic/action.

Skipping layer 2 is the failure: a dark mode, a rebrand or a contrast fix then edits every screen.

The rules

  • A hardcoded colour, spacing, radius, duration or font size in a screen is a defect, not a style preference. Name it or use the token that already exists.
  • Every semantic token names its dark-mode value at the same time. A token added light-only is a dark-mode bug already merged.
  • A new component needs a reason the existing ones cannot compose it. Write the reason in docs/14-components.md. "It looked different in the mock" is not one.
  • Every component declares its states — default, pressed, disabled, loading, error, empty where applicable — and its minimum touch target (44pt iOS / 48dp Android).
  • Contrast is checked when the token is defined, not when accessibility is audited. Text pairs meet 4.5:1, large text and non-text 3:1. A token failing contrast never ships and is never "fixed downstream".

Extending versus forking

Before adding anything, in this order: use the existing component → extend it with a prop → compose two existing ones → add a new one. Stop at the first that works. The third is where most teams stop too early and the fourth is where design systems die.

Output

Tokens go in docs/13-design-tokens.md, components in docs/14-components.md. Both are single-owner files — product-designer writes them, everyone reads them. An IC that needs a change asks; it does not edit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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. 1mo ago First seen · 46 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A f5bd945b638c

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design-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository vmobifystudio/app-dev-team (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 579 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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