Official agent skill

Icons

by JetBrains in JetBrains/intellij-community

Create or review IntelliJ New UI SVG icons and theme variants.

OfficialCustom licenceAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Icons

skills CLI
$ npx skills add JetBrains/intellij-community --skill icons -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install JetBrains/intellij-community icons --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/JetBrains/intellij-community.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/icons .claude/skills/icons && 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
icons
GitHub stars
21k
Token cost
~3.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,418 words
Files
3
Skills in repo
39
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Create or review IntelliJ New UI SVG icons and theme variants.

  • Works in 9 steps: Always ship two SVGs — one for the light… → Only use colors from the canonical… → One canvas size per icon role. See Icon… → …
  • Tasks that involve Icons and illustration
  • SKILL.md covers Golden rules, Icon roles, Where the SVGs live and SVG skeleton, plus 5 more sections
  • Reaches w3.org

What it does

Icons is an agent skill from JetBrains/intellij-community, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Create or review IntelliJ New UI SVG icons and theme variants.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `examples.md` and `palette.md`).

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering Icons and illustration. It works with JetBrains IDEs. The repository describes itself as: IntelliJ IDEA & IntelliJ Platform.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Icons and illustration

Example prompts

  • “/icons”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Always ship two SVGs — one for the light theme (e.g. addFile.svg) and one for the dark theme with the _dark suffix (addFile_dark.svg)…
  2. Only use colors from the canonical palette. See palette.md. Picking a one-off color breaks theming and contrast.
  3. One canvas size per icon role. See Icon roles. Do not invent new sizes or pad with empty space — IntelliJ scales the canvas as a single…
  4. No raster, no gradients, no filters, no embedded fonts. Path geometry only (, , , , , ). Text must be converted to outlines.
  5. Use fill="none" on the root and set fill / stroke explicitly per shape — never rely on CSS or currentColor`.
  6. Strokes use stroke-width="1", stroke-linecap="round", stroke-linejoin="round" (or stroke-miterlimit="10" for hard joins). Heavier strokes…
  7. Pixel-grid align: keep stroke axes on half-pixel centers (x.5) and fills on whole pixels so the icon stays crisp at 1× rendering.
  8. Preserve the Apache 2.0 copyright comment as line 1. Match the year of contribution.
  9. File names use camelCase matching the action/node ID and stay ASCII-only.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cbaf50b. 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 (its code samples are json and svg).

    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:

    • w3.org

    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

Icons loads about 3.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 17 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,418 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~17
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.1k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,418 words (~3,060 tokens).

“Guidance for authoring SVG icons for the New UI.”

— opening of SKILL.md by JetBrains, Custom licence
name
icons

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files in .agents/skills/icons of JetBrains/intellij-community.

  • SKILL.md
  • examples.md
  • palette.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cbaf50b

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Review UI DesignColourCloudSky/review-ui-design-skill119—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Solar Iconssaoudi-h/solar-icons186—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Icons

What does Icons do?

Create or review IntelliJ New UI SVG icons and theme variants. Icons is an agent skill from JetBrains/intellij-community, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Create or review IntelliJ New UI SVG icons and theme variants.

When should I use Icons?

Icons fits situations like: tasks that involve Icons and illustration.

How do I install Icons in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add JetBrains/intellij-community --skill icons -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/icons in JetBrains/intellij-community) into .claude/skills/icons in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Icons in Codex?

Run `npx skills add JetBrains/intellij-community --skill icons -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/icons in JetBrains/intellij-community) into .agents/skills/icons in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Icons 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 JetBrains/intellij-community --skill icons -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/icons, .gemini/skills/icons, .github/skills/icons and .opencode/skills/icons in your project.

What does Icons need to run?

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

Does Icons access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: w3.org; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Icons 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 Icons use?

Icons has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Icons use?

About 3.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 12k 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 Icons?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Icons: Kill AI Slop (yetone/kill-ai-slop, 1.3k stars), Better Icons (dtsola/xiaoyaosearch, 1k stars), Fluent Icons Lookup (coltongriffith/fluenticons, 442 stars) and Review UI Design (ColourCloudSky/review-ui-design-skill, 119 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Icons?

JetBrains (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in JetBrains/intellij-community, which has 20,617 GitHub stars. The repository holds 39 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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