Document Design

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Make a proposal
• Tasks that involve PDF
• Tasks that involve Newsletters

Example prompts

• “Use the document-design skill to create print-ready HTML that exports to PDF. An agent skill from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism”
• “/document-design”

Requirements

• Node.js

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Print-first design: All documents target 8.5" × 11" letter size with proper margins
2. 2Brand compliance: Use colors and fonts from brand configuration
3. 3Sentence case by default: Unless brand config specifies "title" case
4. 4Clean exports: Documents must render correctly when printed to PDF

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e3e2172. 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

  Ships script files (JavaScript, from the files we listed), which the agent can run.

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • fonts.googleapis.com

  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

Document Design loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 34 tokens; SKILL.md has 595 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~34

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.9k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~2.9k

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

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 jamditis/claude-skills-journalism at commit e3e2172, republished under its MIT licence (© jamditis). 595 words, ~1,868 tokens.

name

document-design

description

Creates print-ready HTML that exports to PDF. Use to make a proposal, report, one-pager, newsletter, slides, or flyer.

---
brand:
  name: "Organization Name"
  tagline: "Tagline"
  website: "https://example.com"
  email: "contact@example.com"

colors:
  primary: "#CA3553"
  secondary: "#000000"
  background: "#FFFFFF"
  text: "#2d2a28"
  muted: "#666666"

fonts:
  heading: "Playfair Display"
  body: "Source Sans 3"

style:
  headingCase: "sentence"
  useOxfordComma: true
---

:root {
    --primary: [colors.primary];
    --secondary: [colors.secondary];
    --background: [colors.background];
    --text: [colors.text];
    --muted: [colors.muted];

    /* Derived colors */
    --primary-dark: [darken primary by 15%];
    --gray-100: #f5f4f2;
    --gray-200: #e8e6e3;
}

@page {
    size: 8.5in 11in;
    margin: 0;
}

@media print {
    body {
        -webkit-print-color-adjust: exact !important;
        print-color-adjust: exact !important;
    }
    .page {
        page-break-after: always;
        page-break-inside: avoid;
    }
}

.page {
    width: 8.5in;
    height: 11in;
    padding: 0.5in 0.75in;
    padding-bottom: 1in; /* Space for footer */
    position: relative;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    overflow: hidden;
}

.page-footer {
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0.4in;
    left: 0.75in;
    right: 0.75in;
    font-size: 9pt;
    border-top: 1px solid var(--gray-200);
    padding-top: 0.1in;
    background: var(--background);
}

.page {
    display: grid;
    grid-template-rows: auto 1fr auto;
    overflow: hidden;
}

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=[heading-font]:wght@400;600;700&family=[body-font]:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap');

body {
    font-family: '[body-font]', Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11pt;
    line-height: 1.6;
    color: var(--text);
}

h1, h2, h3 {
    font-family: '[heading-font]', Georgia, serif;
    font-weight: 700;
}

.section-title {
    font-size: 26pt;
    color: var(--secondary);
    margin-bottom: 0.25in;
}

.section-title::after {
    content: '';
    display: block;
    width: 0.5in;
    height: 3px;
    background: var(--primary);
    margin-top: 0.12in;
}

<header class="cover-header">
    <div class="logo-bar">
        <div class="logo-primary">[brand.name]</div>
    </div>
    <div class="cover-title-block">
        <div class="cover-eyebrow">[Document type] • [Date]</div>
        <h1 class="cover-title">[Title in configured case]</h1>
    </div>
</header>

.budget-table thead {
    background: var(--secondary);
    color: white;
}

.budget-table tbody tr:last-child {
    background: var(--primary);
    color: white;
    font-weight: 700;
}

.highlight-box {
    background: linear-gradient(135deg, var(--primary) 0%, var(--primary-dark) 100%);
    color: white;
    padding: 0.3in;
}

© jamditis, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 17 other files (references) in pdf-playground/skills/document-design of jamditis/claude-skills-journalism.

• SKILL.md
• agents/openai.yaml
• brands/ccm.yaml
• brands/default.yaml
• brands/example-newsroom.yaml
• controls/control-panel.css
• controls/control-panel.js
• controls/playground-wrapper.html
• controls/prompt-generator.js
• controls/template-maps/README.md
• controls/template-maps/proposal.js
• references/css-patterns.md
• templates/event-template.html
• templates/newsletter-template.html
• templates/onepager-template.html
• … and 3 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e3e2172