Userinterface Wiki
raphaelsalaja/userinterface-wiki
UI/UX best practices for web interfaces. An agent skill from raphaelsalaja/userinterface-wiki.
Designing interfaces with a deliberate point of view: plan before pixels, avoid the generic-default look, typography and colour discipline, a quality floor that is not negotiable.
Install Frontend Design
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill frontend-design -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator frontend-design --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design .claude/skills/frontend-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "frontend-design" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design into .claude/skills/frontend-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frontend-design", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-designType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill frontend-design -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator frontend-design --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design .agents/skills/frontend-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "frontend-design" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design into .agents/skills/frontend-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frontend-design", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill frontend-design -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator frontend-design --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design .cursor/skills/frontend-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "frontend-design" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design into .cursor/skills/frontend-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frontend-design", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git --path local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill frontend-design -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator frontend-design --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design .gemini/skills/frontend-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "frontend-design" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design into .gemini/skills/frontend-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frontend-design", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator frontend-designInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill frontend-design -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design .github/skills/frontend-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "frontend-design" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design into .github/skills/frontend-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frontend-design", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill frontend-design -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator frontend-design --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design .opencode/skills/frontend-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "frontend-design" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design into .opencode/skills/frontend-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frontend-design", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
frontend-design- GitHub stars
- 217
- Token cost
- ~773 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 432 words
- Files
- 1
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Designing interfaces with a deliberate point of view: plan before pixels, avoid the generic-default look, typography and colour discipline, a quality floor that is not negotiable.
- Improving web UI
- SKILL.md covers Pass 1: plan before pixels, Pass 2: build and self-critique, Anti-generic checklist and Quality floor (not negotiable), plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Tasks that involve Frontend development
What it does
Frontend Design is an agent skill from damianvtran/local-operator. Designing interfaces with a deliberate point of view: plan before pixels, avoid the generic-default look, typography and colour discipline, a quality floor that is not negotiable. Use when creating or improving web UI.
Its SKILL.md is about 770 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Frontend & Design, covering Frontend development and Typography. The repository describes itself as: An open-source AI agent hub for your own machine: build organizations of collaborating agents that message each other, run in the background around the clock, and share your… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Improving web UI
- Tasks that involve Frontend development
- Tasks that involve Typography
Example prompts
- “/frontend-design”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 05e4c97. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Frontend Design loads about 773 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 432 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from damianvtran/local-operator at commit 05e4c97, republished under its MIT licence (© damianvtran). 432 words, ~773 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- frontend-design
- description
- Designing interfaces with a deliberate point of view: plan before pixels, avoid the generic-default look, typography and colour discipline, a quality floor that is not negotiable. Use when creating or improving web UI.
Frontend design
A deliberate point of view, then construction, then adversarial self-review. Generic is a decision too, and usually the wrong one.
Pass 1: plan before pixels
Write down, before building:
- The audience and the ONE job of the screen.
- The primary action, and what the screen has to carry (real strings, real data volumes).
- The states: loading, empty, error, populated.
- Type plan: one scale (4 to 6 sizes, 2 to 3 weights). Colour plan: one accent, a neutral base, semantic roles (surface, border, text, danger). Say why each choice fits the audience.
Then attack the plan: describe what the default or template version of this screen would look like (hero, gradient, uniform card grid?). Remove or justify every piece of it that crept in. If the plan would work for any product, it is not a plan.
Pass 2: build and self-critique
- Build the states as designed. The empty state is part of the design, not a fallback.
- Capture frames at narrow, standard, and wide (harness
browsertool where available) and critique them against the plan: hierarchy, alignment, rhythm, legibility. - Fix and recapture until the frames match the plan. Then look once more for what you stopped seeing.
Anti-generic checklist
| Tell | Fix |
|---|---|
| Everything is a card in a uniform grid | Vary weight: some content is prose, some is data; not all containers are equal |
| Default gradient hero, centred everything | Choose one focal element; align to a grid on purpose |
| Three icon-title-blurb columns | Use the real content shape, or one strong statement with supporting detail |
| Filler copy ("empower your workflow") | Say what the control does, in the user's vocabulary |
| One font size everywhere | A scale, used consistently |
| Colour from a palette dump | One accent; colour for meaning, not decoration |
| Decoration that carries no meaning | Delete it; whitespace is a design element |
| Stock imagery that says nothing | Product truth, or nothing |
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Quality floor (not negotiable)
Ships without these or it does not ship:
- Responsive from the narrowest supported width.
- Focus-visible on every interactive element; keyboard order matches the visual order.
- Contrast: 4.5:1 normal text, 3:1 large text and meaningful UI borders.
- Reduced motion respected; motion earns its place.
- Real loading, empty, error, and populated states; no layout jump on load.
- Copy written for the user, no placeholders, no internal vocabulary. Checks:
skill://design-qa.
Red flags
- Designing to a single screenshot; the empty and error screens are left for "later".
- "It looks clean" with no plan, no narrow-width frame, and no state coverage.
- Importing a trend wholesale (glass effects, neon gradients) with no link to the brief.
- Polishing visuals while the quality floor is unmet.
© damianvtran, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design of damianvtran/local-operator.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 05e4c97
Compare with similar skills
Frontend Design next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontend Design this skilldamianvtran/local-operator | 217 | — | ~773 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Userinterface Wikiraphaelsalaja/userinterface-wiki | 907 | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Gridgeistohmiler/gridgeist | 115 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Frontend Designudecode/plate | 17k | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Bryl Minimal Designbryllim/bryl-minimal-design | 115 | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Using Ouds Web Version Major MinorOrange-OpenSource/Orange-Boosted-Bootstrap | 222 | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Frontend Design
What does Frontend Design do?
Designing interfaces with a deliberate point of view: plan before pixels, avoid the generic-default look, typography and colour discipline, a quality floor that is not negotiable. Frontend Design is an agent skill from damianvtran/local-operator. Designing interfaces with a deliberate point of view: plan before pixels, avoid the generic-default look, typography and colour discipline, a quality floor that is not negotiable.
When should I use Frontend Design?
Frontend Design fits situations like: improving web UI; tasks that involve Frontend development; tasks that involve Typography.
How do I install Frontend Design in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill frontend-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design in damianvtran/local-operator) into .claude/skills/frontend-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Frontend Design in Codex?
Run `npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill frontend-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (local_operator/skills/builtin/frontend-design in damianvtran/local-operator) into .agents/skills/frontend-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Frontend Design in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill frontend-design -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/frontend-design, .gemini/skills/frontend-design, .github/skills/frontend-design and .opencode/skills/frontend-design in your project.
What does Frontend Design need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Frontend Design is instructions for the agent only.
Does Frontend Design access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Frontend Design safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Frontend Design use?
Frontend Design is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Frontend Design use?
About 773 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Frontend Design?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Frontend Design: Userinterface Wiki (raphaelsalaja/userinterface-wiki, 907 stars), Gridgeist (ohmiler/gridgeist, 115 stars), Frontend Design (udecode/plate, 17k stars) and Bryl Minimal Design (bryllim/bryl-minimal-design, 115 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Frontend Design?
damianvtran (a GitHub user) maintains it in damianvtran/local-operator, which has 217 GitHub stars. The repository was last updated on October 11, 2026.
Source: damianvtran/local-operator on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.