Agent skill

Claude Designer

by instructa in instructa/agent-skills

Use Claude Code directly from Astra's current task to design or implement UI/UX and frontend work, with Astra owning sequencing, review, and integration.

No licenceAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Claude Designer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add instructa/agent-skills --skill claude-designer -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install instructa/agent-skills claude-designer --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/codex/claude-designer .claude/skills/claude-designer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
claude-designer
GitHub stars
139
Token cost
~966 tokens
SKILL.md length
498 words
Files
4 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
17
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Use Claude Code directly from Astra's current task to design or implement UI/UX and frontend work, with Astra owning sequencing, review, and integration.

  • The user invokes $claude-designer
  • SKILL.md covers Choose the sequence, Call Claude directly and Review and integrate
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Requests this workflow

What it does

Claude Designer is an agent skill from instructa/agent-skills. Use Claude Code directly from Astra's current task to design or implement UI/UX and frontend work, with Astra owning sequencing, review, and integration. Use when the user invokes $claude-designer or requests this workflow.

Its SKILL.md is about 970 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `README.md`, `agents/openai.yaml` and `references/direct-claude-workflow.md`).

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering UI design. The repository describes itself as: A curated collection of agent-skills.

When your agent uses it

  • The user invokes $claude-designer
  • Requests this workflow

Example prompts

  • “/claude-designer”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d49c149. 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

Claude Designer loads about 966 tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 498 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~60
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~966
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.8k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 498 words (~966 tokens).

“Astra handles the workflow in the current task and calls Claude Code directly. Do not create or route through an intermediary Codex task. This skill supports existing interfaces and new interfaces; it does not prescribe a framework.”

— opening of SKILL.md by instructa
name
claude-designer

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/codex/claude-designer of instructa/agent-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • README.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/direct-claude-workflow.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d49c149

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Questions about Claude Designer

What does Claude Designer do?

Use Claude Code directly from Astra's current task to design or implement UI/UX and frontend work, with Astra owning sequencing, review, and integration. Claude Designer is an agent skill from instructa/agent-skills. Use Claude Code directly from Astra's current task to design or implement UI/UX and frontend work, with Astra owning sequencing, review, and integration.

When should I use Claude Designer?

Claude Designer fits situations like: the user invokes $claude-designer; requests this workflow.

How do I install Claude Designer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add instructa/agent-skills --skill claude-designer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/codex/claude-designer in instructa/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/claude-designer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Claude Designer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add instructa/agent-skills --skill claude-designer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/codex/claude-designer in instructa/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/claude-designer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Claude Designer 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 instructa/agent-skills --skill claude-designer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/claude-designer, .gemini/skills/claude-designer, .github/skills/claude-designer and .opencode/skills/claude-designer in your project.

What does Claude Designer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Claude Designer is instructions for the agent only.

Does Claude Designer 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 Claude Designer 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 Claude Designer use?

No licence was found for Claude Designer or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Claude Designer use?

About 966 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Claude Designer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Claude Designer: Banner Design System (nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill, 134k stars), UI Styling (Ohh-889/skyroc, 795 stars), LobeHub Interactive Prototype (lobehub/lobehub, 83k stars) and Make Interfaces Feel Better (samuelclay/NewsBlur, 7.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Claude Designer?

instructa (a GitHub organization) maintains it in instructa/agent-skills, which has 139 GitHub stars. The repository holds 17 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 28, 2026.

Source: instructa/agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.