design-system

design-system is a skill for Claude Code from Zate/cc-plugins. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,595 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of visual rules for making software diagrams clear and accessible. It covers colors, layout, typography, and other presentation choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating SVG, Mermaid, Excalidraw, or D2 diagrams to guide color choices, composition, labels, and accessibility.
Why use it?
It helps diagrams communicate structure and meaning consistently instead of using colors and layouts only for decoration.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the diagrams plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating SVG, Mermaid, Excalidraw, or D2 diagrams to guide color choices, composition, labels, and accessibility.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zate/cc-plugins/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 Zate/cc-plugins --skill design-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zate/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install diagrams, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,595 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 $0.00054 $0.02595
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01038
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00519
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00260

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 74da706813ad, 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.

plugins/diagrams/skills/design-system/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Diagram Design System

Universal design principles for professional-quality diagrams. These rules apply regardless of output format (SVG, Mermaid, Excalidraw, D2). Format-specific skills handle syntax; this skill handles aesthetics and composition.

Color

Palette Size

Use 3-5 colors plus grays per diagram. Maximum 7 distinct colors. Beyond that, humans cannot distinguish and remember meanings. If you need more categories, use shade variations within a hue family rather than adding new hues.

Semantic Color Conventions

Use color to convey meaning, not decoration. These associations are widely understood in software engineering:

Concept Color Light Theme Hex Use For
Platform / Core Blue #2563EB Primary system components, APIs, services
Data / Storage Blue (darker) #1E40AF Databases, data stores, caches
Success / Healthy Green #16A34A Active states, successful flows, admin
Security / Error Red #DC2626 Threats, errors, denied paths, trust boundaries
Warning / Caution Amber #D97706 Deprecations, risks, attention needed
Compute / Processing Purple #7C3AED Processing nodes, AI/ML, observability
External / Third-Party Teal #0891B2 External systems, integrations, users
Inactive / Deprecated Gray #6B7280 Disabled, archived, low-priority
Infrastructure Slate #475569 Foundational platform, network

Color-Blind Safe Palette

8% of males have color vision deficiency. Always follow these rules:

  1. Never rely on color alone -- pair with shape, pattern, label, or icon
  2. Avoid red-green adjacency without additional differentiation
  3. Preferred safe palettes:
    • IBM: #648FFF, #785EF0, #DC267F, #FE6100, #FFB000
    • Wong: #E69F00, #56B4E9, #009E73, #F0E442, #0072B2, #D55E00, #CC79A7

Contrast (WCAG AA)

  • Normal text on backgrounds: contrast ratio >= 4.5:1
  • Large text (18px+ or 14px bold): >= 3:1
  • Non-text elements (borders, icons, chart segments): >= 3:1 against adjacent colors
  • White text on gradient fills (#0052CC, #006644, #5243AA) meets AA
  • Never place mid-tone text on mid-tone backgrounds

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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. 1mo ago First seen · 239 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 74da706813ad

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design-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zate/cc-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,595 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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