design-stylecards

design-stylecards is a skill for Claude Code from yonatangross/orchestkit. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,214 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A catalogue of named visual recipes containing exact values for shadows, glass effects, gradients, meshes, and type scales. Each recipe also explains when to use it and when to avoid it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when styling elevation, glass-like surfaces, border gradients, mesh backgrounds, or other specific visual treatments in a project.
Why use it?
It replaces vague instructions such as “make it look polished” with repeatable values that can be reviewed and reused across interface work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the ork plugin — 107 skills, 36 commands, 36 agents, 32 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when styling elevation, glass-like surfaces, border gradients, mesh backgrounds, or other specific visual treatments in a project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/design-stylecards
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 yonatangross/orchestkit --skill design-stylecards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ork, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 107 skills, 36 commands, 36 agents, 32 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,214 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 22
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 16
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00086 $0.01214
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00121

Measured yesterday against content hash 01e8c600c4cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-stylecards 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 yesterday.

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/ork/skills/design-stylecards/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Stylecards

Specs beat vibes. A stylecard is a named aesthetic recipe with exact values — the difference between "add a nice shadow" (reinvented differently every session) and elevation/md (identical every time, reviewed once, versioned forever).

design-stylecards list                      # Catalog index
design-stylecards elevation/md              # Show one recipe
design-stylecards apply glass/dark to src/components/Panel.tsx

Why declarative recipes

Pipeline skills (design-to-code, design-context-extract) answer how to produce design output. Stylecards answer what good looks like — as literal values an agent pastes, not adjectives it interprets. Inspired by MengTo/Skills' stylecard micro-skills (MIT), consolidated into one catalog to avoid manifest sprawl.

Workflow

1. Resolve the request to a recipe

Read("references/stylecards.md")   # The catalog — always read before choosing
# Match the user's intent to ONE recipe by its Use-When line.
# No match → say so and offer the closest two; never freehand values.

2. Show or apply

  • Show: print the recipe verbatim — values, Use-When, Avoid. No paraphrasing values.
  • Apply: edit the target file using the recipe's exact values. Adapt only the syntax (Tailwind arbitrary class ↔ plain CSS ↔ CSS custom property), never the numbers.

3. Respect the recipe's Avoid block

Every recipe ends with falsifiable Avoid rules (e.g. "never stack two elevation recipes on one element"). Violating an Avoid rule to satisfy a user request requires saying so explicitly.

Catalog index

Full recipes with exact values: references/stylecards.md.

Recipe Use when
elevation/sm md lg Layered neutral shadows — compact controls / cards / hero surfaces
glass/dark Frosted glass panel on a dark backdrop
border/gradient 1px gradient border without a wrapper hack
background/mesh 2–3 hue radial mesh page background
type/editorial Display + body + mono role split with tracking values
motion/budget The four allowed durations + the one-signature-moment rule

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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.

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. yesterday Changed 01e8c600c4cd
  2. 3d ago Changed 09d7cd7d834f
  3. 7d ago First seen · 120 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A c4bede3bdf82

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-stylecards is a skill published in the GitHub repository yonatangross/orchestkit (229 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,214 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.