Agent skill

Design Lab

by NeverSight in NeverSight/learn-skills.dev

Conduct design interviews, generate five distinct UI variations in a temporary design lab, collect feedback, and produce implementation plans.

No licenceAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Design Lab

skills CLI
$ npx skills add NeverSight/learn-skills.dev --skill design-lab -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install NeverSight/learn-skills.dev design-lab --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/NeverSight/learn-skills.dev.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/data/skills-md/0xdesign/design-plugin/design-lab .claude/skills/design-lab && 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
design-lab
GitHub stars
216
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~7.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,931 words
Files
12
Skills in repo
43
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Conduct design interviews, generate five distinct UI variations in a temporary design lab, collect feedback, and produce implementation plans.

  • Works in 9 steps: Preflight Detection → Interview → Generate Design Brief → …
  • The user wants to explore UI design options
  • SKILL.md covers CRITICAL: Cleanup Behavior, Phase 0: Preflight Detection, Phase 1: Interview and Phase 2: Generate Design Brief, plus 3 more sections
  • Calls pnpm and npm

What it does

Design Lab is an agent skill from NeverSight/learn-skills.dev. Conduct design interviews, generate five distinct UI variations in a temporary design lab, collect feedback, and produce implementation plans. Use when the user wants to explore UI design options, redesign existing components, or create new UI with multiple approaches to compare.

Its SKILL.md is about 7.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 11 other files.

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering UI design, Planning and CSS and styling. It works with Tailwind CSS, Vite and Nuxt. The repository describes itself as: Curated high-quality AI Agent Skills. Search, install, copy and share. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, and other AI coding tools.

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants to explore UI design options
  • Redesign existing components
  • Create new UI with multiple approaches to compare

Example prompts

  • “/design-lab”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Preflight Detection
  2. Interview
  3. Generate Design Brief
  4. Generate Design Lab
  5. Present Design Lab to User
  6. Collect Feedback
  7. Synthesize New Variant
  8. Final Preview
  9. Finalize

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 08f9d22. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • pnpm
    • npm

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pnpm and npm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Design Lab loads about 7.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 73 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,931 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~73
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~7.5k

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 2,931 words (~7,475 tokens).

“This skill implements a complete design exploration workflow: interview, generate variations, collect feedback, refine, preview, and finalize.”

— opening of SKILL.md by NeverSight
name
design-lab

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 11 other files in data/skills-md/0xdesign/design-plugin/design-lab of NeverSight/learn-skills.dev.

  • SKILL.md
  • description_ar.txt
  • description_cn.txt
  • description_de.txt
  • description_en.txt
  • description_es.txt
  • description_fr.txt
  • description_it.txt
  • description_ja.txt
  • description_ko.txt
  • description_ru.txt
  • description_tw.txt

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 08f9d22

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in NeverSight/learn-skills.dev, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Nuxt UImegaarmos/vue-spring-bottom-sheet1411 repos~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
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Questions about Design Lab

What does Design Lab do?

Conduct design interviews, generate five distinct UI variations in a temporary design lab, collect feedback, and produce implementation plans. dev. Conduct design interviews, generate five distinct UI variations in a temporary design lab, collect feedback, and produce implementation plans.

When should I use Design Lab?

Design Lab fits situations like: the user wants to explore UI design options; redesign existing components; create new UI with multiple approaches to compare.

How do I install Design Lab in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add NeverSight/learn-skills.dev --skill design-lab -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (data/skills-md/0xdesign/design-plugin/design-lab in NeverSight/learn-skills.dev) into .claude/skills/design-lab in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Design Lab in Codex?

Run `npx skills add NeverSight/learn-skills.dev --skill design-lab -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (data/skills-md/0xdesign/design-plugin/design-lab in NeverSight/learn-skills.dev) into .agents/skills/design-lab in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Design Lab 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 NeverSight/learn-skills.dev --skill design-lab -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/design-lab, .gemini/skills/design-lab, .github/skills/design-lab and .opencode/skills/design-lab in your project.

What does Design Lab need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Design Lab needs the command-line tools its instructions call (pnpm and npm).

Does Design Lab access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Design Lab 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 Design Lab use?

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

How many tokens does Design Lab use?

About 7.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 30k 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 Design Lab?

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Who maintains Design Lab?

NeverSight (a GitHub organization) maintains it in NeverSight/learn-skills.dev, which has 216 GitHub stars. The repository holds 43 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

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