Agent skill

Web Design Guidelines

by nexu-io in nexu-io/open-design

Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance by the Vercel engineering team.

MITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Web Design Guidelines

skills CLI
$ npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill web-design-guidelines -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install nexu-io/open-design web-design-guidelines --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/nexu-io/open-design.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/web-design-guidelines .claude/skills/web-design-guidelines && 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
web-design-guidelines
GitHub stars
100k
Token cost
~601 tokens
SKILL.md length
200 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
245
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance by the Vercel engineering team.

  • Works in 5 steps: Load the pinned guidelines from… → Optionally, fetch the latest guidelines… → Read the specified files (or prompt user… → …
  • Tasks that involve Frontend development
  • SKILL.md covers How It Works, Guidelines Source and Usage
  • Reaches raw.githubusercontent.com

What it does

Web Design Guidelines is an agent skill from nexu-io/open-design. Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance by the Vercel engineering team. Covers layout, typography, color, motion, and accessibility for product UI.

Its SKILL.md is about 600 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/guidelines.md`).

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering Frontend development and Typography. It works with Vercel. The repository describes itself as: 🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Frontend development
  • Tasks that involve Typography

Example prompts

  • “/web-design-guidelines”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Load the pinned guidelines from references/guidelines.md — this is the default, reproducible execution path
  2. Optionally, fetch the latest guidelines from the upstream URL below and diff against the pinned snapshot to see if anything has changed
  3. Read the specified files (or prompt user for files/pattern)
  4. Check against all rules in the guidelines
  5. Output findings in the terse file:line format

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 17e2559. 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

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

    • raw.githubusercontent.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

Web Design Guidelines loads about 601 tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 46 tokens; SKILL.md has 200 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~46
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~601
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.3k

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 nexu-io/open-design at commit 17e2559, republished under its MIT licence (© nexu-io). 200 words, ~601 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/web-design-guidelines/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
web-design-guidelines
description
Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance by the Vercel engineering team. Covers layout, typography, color, motion, and accessibility for product UI.
triggers
web design guidelines, vercel design, product ui standards, design checklist, review my UI, check accessibility, audit design, review UX, 设计审查
metadata.author
vercel
metadata.version
1.0.0
metadata.argument-hint
<file-or-pattern>
od.mode
design-system
od.surface
web
od.platform
desktop
od.category
design-systems
od.upstream
https://github.com/vercel-labs/web-interface-guidelines
od.source-commit
4e799d45c17aec1498c269287a83b9dba22b966b

Web Interface Guidelines

Review files for compliance with Web Interface Guidelines.

How It Works

  1. Load the pinned guidelines from references/guidelines.md — this is the default, reproducible execution path
  2. Optionally, fetch the latest guidelines from the upstream URL below and diff against the pinned snapshot to see if anything has changed
  3. Read the specified files (or prompt user for files/pattern)
  4. Check against all rules in the guidelines
  5. Output findings in the terse file:line format

Guidelines Source

Default (pinned): The vendored copy at references/guidelines.md is the default execution path. It is a pinned snapshot of the upstream guidelines and guarantees the skill produces reproducible results in any runtime environment.

Upstream (live): For users who want the very latest rules, the live source is available at:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vercel-labs/web-interface-guidelines/main/command.md

Fetching the live version is optional — the pinned snapshot is always the baseline.

Usage

When a user provides a file or pattern argument:

  1. Load references/guidelines.md as the default source
  2. Optionally fetch the upstream URL to check for updates
  3. Read the specified files
  4. Apply all rules from the guidelines
  5. Output findings using the format specified in the guidelines

If no files specified, ask the user which files to review.

© nexu-io, 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 2 other files (references) in skills/web-design-guidelines of nexu-io/open-design.

  • SKILL.md
  • LICENSE
  • references/guidelines.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 17e2559

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Questions about Web Design Guidelines

What does Web Design Guidelines do?

Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance by the Vercel engineering team. Web Design Guidelines is an agent skill from nexu-io/open-design. Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance by the Vercel engineering team.

When should I use Web Design Guidelines?

Web Design Guidelines fits situations like: tasks that involve Frontend development; tasks that involve Typography.

How do I install Web Design Guidelines in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill web-design-guidelines -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/web-design-guidelines in nexu-io/open-design) into .claude/skills/web-design-guidelines in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Web Design Guidelines in Codex?

Run `npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill web-design-guidelines -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/web-design-guidelines in nexu-io/open-design) into .agents/skills/web-design-guidelines in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Web Design Guidelines 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 nexu-io/open-design --skill web-design-guidelines -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/web-design-guidelines, .gemini/skills/web-design-guidelines, .github/skills/web-design-guidelines and .opencode/skills/web-design-guidelines in your project.

What does Web Design Guidelines need to run?

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

Does Web Design Guidelines access the network?

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

Is Web Design Guidelines 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 Web Design Guidelines use?

Web Design Guidelines is published under the MIT licence (from the LICENSE file in the skill folder). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Web Design Guidelines use?

About 601 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.4k 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 Web Design Guidelines?

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Who maintains Web Design Guidelines?

nexu-io (a GitHub organization) maintains it in nexu-io/open-design, which has 100,280 GitHub stars. The repository holds 245 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: nexu-io/open-design on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.