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Official agent skill

Frontend Design Review

by microsoft in microsoft/skills

Review and create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality and design system compliance.

OfficialMITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Frontend Design Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add microsoft/skills --skill frontend-design-review -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install microsoft/skills frontend-design-review --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/microsoft/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/frontend-design-review .claude/skills/frontend-design-review && 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
frontend-design-review
GitHub stars
3.1k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
587 words
Files
5 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
150
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Review and create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality and design system compliance.

  • Works in 3 steps: Frictionless Insight to Action → Quality is Craft → Trustworthy Building
  • Accessibility audits
  • SKILL.md covers Two Modes, Creative Frontend Design, Design Review and Quality Pillars, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Frontend Design Review is an agent skill from microsoft/skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Review and create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality and design system compliance. Evaluates using three pillars: frictionless insight-to-action, quality craft, and trustworthy building. USE FOR: PR reviews, design reviews, accessibility audits, design system compliance checks, creative frontend design, UI code review, component reviews, responsive design checks, theme testing, and creating memorable UI. DO NOT USE FOR: Backend API reviews, database schema reviews…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `references/pattern-examples.md`, `references/quick-checklist.md` and `references/review-output-format.md`).

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering Design review and critique and Design systems. The repository describes itself as: Skills, MCP servers, Custom Agents, Agents.md for SDKs to ground Coding Agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Accessibility audits
  • Design system compliance checks
  • Creative frontend design
  • Component reviews

Example prompts

  • “/frontend-design-review”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Frictionless Insight to Action
  2. Quality is Craft
  3. Trustworthy Building

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3898ec8. 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

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • github.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

Frontend Design Review loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 154 tokens; SKILL.md has 587 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~154
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.2k

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 microsoft/skills at commit 3898ec8, republished under its MIT licence (© microsoft). 587 words, ~1,539 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/frontend-design-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
frontend-design-review
description
Review and create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality and design system compliance. Evaluates using three pillars: frictionless insight-to-action, quality craft, and trustworthy building. USE FOR: PR reviews, design reviews, accessibility audits, design system compliance checks, creative frontend design, UI code review, component reviews, responsive design checks, theme testing, and creating memorable UI. DO NOT USE FOR: Backend API reviews, database schema reviews, infrastructure or DevOps work, pure business logic without UI, or non-frontend code.
acknowledgments
Design review principles and quality pillar framework created by @Quirinevwm (https://github.com/Quirinevwm). Creative frontend guidance inspired by…

Frontend Design Review

Review UI implementations against design quality standards and your design system OR create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces from scratch.

Two Modes

Mode 1: Design Review

Evaluate existing UI for design system compliance, three quality pillars (Frictionless, Quality Craft, Trustworthy), accessibility, and code quality.

Mode 2: Creative Frontend Design

Create distinctive interfaces that avoid generic "AI slop" aesthetics, have clear conceptual direction, and execute with precision.

Creative Frontend Design

Before coding, commit to an aesthetic direction:

  • Purpose: What problem does this solve? Who uses it?
  • Tone: minimal, maximalist, retro-futuristic, organic, luxury, playful, editorial, brutalist, art deco, soft/pastel, industrial, etc.
  • Constraints: Framework, performance, accessibility requirements.
  • Differentiation: What makes this distinctive and context-appropriate?
Aesthetics Guidelines
  • Typography: Distinctive fonts that elevate aesthetics. Pair a display font with a refined body font. Avoid Inter, Roboto, Arial, Space Grotesk.
  • Color & Theme: Cohesive palette with CSS variables. Dominant colors + sharp accents > timid, evenly-distributed palettes.
  • Motion: CSS-only preferred. One well-orchestrated page load with staggered reveals > scattered micro-interactions.
  • Spatial Composition: Asymmetry, overlap, diagonal flow, grid-breaking elements, generous negative space OR controlled density.
  • Backgrounds: Gradient meshes, noise textures, geometric patterns, layered transparencies, dramatic shadows, grain overlays.

AVOID: Overused fonts, cliched color schemes, predictable layouts, cookie-cutter design without context-specific character.

Match implementation complexity to vision. Maximalist = elaborate code. Minimalist = restraint and precision.

Design Review

Design System Workflow

Before implementing:

  1. Review component in your Storybook / component library for API and usage
  2. Use Figma Dev Mode to get exact specs (spacing, tokens, properties)
  3. Implement using design system components + design tokens

During review:

  1. Compare implementation to Figma design
  2. Verify design tokens are used (not hardcoded values)
  3. Check all variants/states are implemented correctly
  4. Flag deviations (needs design approval)

If component doesn't exist:

  1. Check if existing component can be adapted
  2. Reach out to design for new component creation
  3. Document exception and rationale in code
Review Process
  1. Identify user task
  2. Check design system for matching patterns
  3. Evaluate aesthetic direction
  4. Identify scope (component, feature, or flow)
  5. Evaluate each pillar
  6. Score and prioritize issues (blocking/major/minor)
  7. Provide recommendations with design system examples
Show full SKILL.md (235 more words)Show less
Core Principles
  • Task completion: Minimum clicks. Every screen answers "What can I do?" and "What happens next?"
  • Action hierarchy: 1-2 primary actions per view. Progressive disclosure for secondary.
  • Onboarding: Explain features on introduction. Smart defaults over configuration.
  • Navigation: Clear entry/exit points. Back/cancel always available. Breadcrumbs for deep flows.

Quality Pillars

1. Frictionless Insight to Action

Evaluate: Task completable in ≤3 interactions? Primary action obvious and singular?

Red flags: Excessive clicks, multiple competing primary buttons, buried actions, dead ends.

2. Quality is Craft

Evaluate:

  • Design system compliance: matches Figma specs, uses design tokens
  • Aesthetic direction: distinctive typography, cohesive colors, intentional motion
  • Accessibility: Grade C minimum (WCAG 2.1 A), Grade B ideal (WCAG 2.1 AA)

Red flags: Generic AI aesthetics, hardcoded values, implementation doesn't match Figma, broken reflow, missing focus indicators.

3. Trustworthy Building

Evaluate:

  • AI transparency: disclaimer on AI-generated content
  • Error transparency: actionable error messages

Red flags: Missing AI disclaimers, opaque errors without guidance.

Review Output Format

See references/review-output-format.md for the full review template.

Review Type Modifiers

See references/review-type-modifiers.md for context-specific review focus areas (PR, Creative, Design, Accessibility).

Quick Checklist

See references/quick-checklist.md for the pre-approval checklist covering design system compliance, aesthetic quality, frictionless, quality craft, and trustworthy pillars.

Pattern Examples

See references/pattern-examples.md for good/bad examples of creative frontend and design system review work.

Acknowledgments

Creative frontend principles inspired by Anthropic's frontend-design skill. Design review principles and quality pillar framework created by @Quirinevwm for systematic UI evaluation.

© microsoft, 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 4 other files (references) in .github/skills/frontend-design-review of microsoft/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/pattern-examples.md
  • references/quick-checklist.md
  • references/review-output-format.md
  • references/review-type-modifiers.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3898ec8

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Questions about Frontend Design Review

What does Frontend Design Review do?

Review and create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality and design system compliance. Frontend Design Review is an agent skill from microsoft/skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Review and create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality and design system compliance.

When should I use Frontend Design Review?

Frontend Design Review fits situations like: accessibility audits; design system compliance checks; creative frontend design; component reviews.

How do I install Frontend Design Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add microsoft/skills --skill frontend-design-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/frontend-design-review in microsoft/skills) into .claude/skills/frontend-design-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Frontend Design Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add microsoft/skills --skill frontend-design-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/frontend-design-review in microsoft/skills) into .agents/skills/frontend-design-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Frontend Design Review 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 microsoft/skills --skill frontend-design-review -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-review, .gemini/skills/frontend-design-review, .github/skills/frontend-design-review and .opencode/skills/frontend-design-review in your project.

What does Frontend Design Review need to run?

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

Does Frontend Design Review access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Frontend Design Review 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 Review use?

Frontend Design Review 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 Review use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k 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 1.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Frontend Design Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Frontend Design Review: Impeccable (mims-harvard/OptimusKG, 146 stars), Frontend Design (udecode/plate, 17k stars), Visualize (display-dev/visualize, 136 stars) and Structure Codebase (citypaul/.dotfiles, 740 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Frontend Design Review?

microsoft (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in microsoft/skills, which has 3,094 GitHub stars. The repository holds 150 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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