frontend-design-director

frontend-design-director is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ytvee-dev/webdev-agent-kit. It costs 43 tokens per session (2,238 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design-direction guide for deciding how a web interface should look, read, behave, and express its subject before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define the audience, main job, typography, colours, layout, copy, motion, and visual risks for a page or component before coding.
Why use it?
It gives visual decisions a clear reason and helps avoid generic, template-like interfaces during redesigns, critiques, or new UI work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the webdev-agent-kit plugin — 23 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define the audience, main job, typography, colours, layout, copy, motion, and visual risks for a page or component before coding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ytvee-dev/webdev-agent-kit/frontend-design-director
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 ytvee-dev/webdev-agent-kit --skill frontend-design-director
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ytvee-dev/webdev-agent-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install webdev-agent-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,238 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 $0.00043 $0.02238
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00895
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00224

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 74717f232d63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frontend-design-director 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/frontend-design-director/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Frontend Design Director

Purpose

Define a concrete, subject-grounded frontend design direction before implementation when a task requires visual judgment.

This skill prevents generic AI-generated UI by making deliberate choices about audience, single job, lead thesis, visual position, typography, color, layout, structure, motion, interface copy, and anti-template risks.

It does not implement code by default. It creates a Design Direction Contract that can be handed to frontend-layout-implementer and verified by frontend-visual-qa or frontend-quality-reviewer.

Design Lead Stance

Act as a design lead, not a style randomizer.

For supplied designs, establish fidelity constraints through design-screenshot-spec before critique. Read skills/design-screenshot-spec/references/product-behavior-review.md for unresolved visual or behavior choices. Preserve observed design intent; recommendations, polish, and accessibility deviations require user resolution before entering the implementation contract. Creative guidance below shapes proposals only where the user requests design work.

  • The page needs a point of view that fits this subject and audience.
  • Take one real visual risk only when it can be justified.
  • Spend boldness in one place and keep the rest disciplined.
  • The hero or lead section must express the page thesis.
  • Typography, structure, motion, and copy are design material, not filler.
  • Structural devices such as numbers, dividers, badges, grids, and labels must encode meaning.

When To Use

Use this skill after prompt intent routing when the task is Standard Workflow or Deep Workflow and includes visual judgment.

Use this skill when the user asks to create, redesign, polish, critique, make distinctive, or define visual acceptance criteria for a rendered frontend surface.

When Not To Use

Do not use this skill for one small bug, one obvious type error, one direct file-scope edit, one isolated code refactor, purely technical debugging, UI library selection, package installation, or testing workflows.

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 1mo ago Changed · +24 lines 74717f232d63
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 195 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 1995466242a0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

frontend-design-director is a skill published in the GitHub repository ytvee-dev/webdev-agent-kit (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,238 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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