What is gpui-kit-design-guides?

A set of required design rules for GPUI Kit desktop applications, covering screens, layouts, components, colors, interactions, motion, and interface text.

Use it before designing or changing a GPUI Kit screen, including data-heavy views, overlays, spacing, and interaction states.

It helps keep changes consistent with the application's established visual and interaction rules.

How wheregmis/threadlane configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to wheregmis/threadlane. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wheregmis/threadlane/main/.agents/skills/gpui-kit-design-guides/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wheregmis/threadlane

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 833 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00099	$0.00833
Opus 5.5	$0.00040	$0.00333
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00020	$0.00167
Haiku 4.5	$0.00010	$0.00083

Measured 2mo ago against content hash de874a5a8db4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gpui-kit-design-guides 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 2mo 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.

.agents/skills/gpui-kit-design-guides/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GPUI Kit Design Guides

The guide is references/design-guides.md. It is a requirement, not inspiration. Read the guide file itself before doing UI work. Do not answer from this page, from an existing screen in the codebase, or from training data.

If the file is missing, fetch https://gpui-kit.com/docs/design-guides.md. The guide is a verbatim copy of that page, so its link to ./coding-guides.md means the Coding Guides in the gpui-kit skill (or https://gpui-kit.com/docs/coding-guides.md).

How to read it

Read the whole guide for a new screen or a redesign. For a narrow change, read "Design thesis" and "Start from the task" first, then the section for the change. Sections, in order (grep -n '^## ' references/design-guides.md):

Section	Read when
Design thesis	Always
Learning from Shadcn	Choosing what to borrow from web component libraries
Start from the task	Always; task hierarchy, interaction promise, what to leave out
Visual language	Color, typography, spacing, radius, borders, elevation, density, icons
Layout patterns	Window structure, sidebars, toolbars, panels, forms, resizable regions
Components and composition	Picking a component, composing parts, when to build a new one
Interaction states	Hover, focus, pressed, selected, disabled, loading, validation, danger
Feedback and overlays	Dialog, sheet, popover, menu, notification, tooltip, dismissal, focus
Motion	Any animation or transition
Designing data-heavy interfaces	Tables, lists, trees, dashboards, dense inspectors
Interface language	Any user-facing text: labels, buttons, titles, errors, empty states
Internationalization and platform fit	Multi-locale copy, Chinese terminology, macOS/Windows conventions
Guidance for AI-generated interfaces	Always when an agent produces UI
Accessibility checklist	Before finishing
Design review checklist	Before finishing; run every item against the work

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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.

references/design-guides.md 46 KB

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.

2mo ago First seen · 61 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A de874a5a8db4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gpui-kit-design-guides is a skill published in the GitHub repository wheregmis/threadlane (24 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 833 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 2026-09-05.

Design and UX

gpui-kit-design-guides next to 6 skills from other repositories
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gpui-kit-design-guideswheregmis/threadlane	Skill	24	2d ago	MIT	A	99	Claude Code, Codex
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visual-ralphYeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex	Skill	34k	3d ago	MIT	A	52	Codex
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accessibilitymicrosoft/hve-core	Skill	1.6k	yesterday	MIT	A	47	Claude Code

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