Agent skill

Design Token Audit

by Owl-Listener in Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Audit token usage across a product for coverage, drift, and hard-coded values.

MITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Design Token Audit

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-token-audit -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills design-token-audit --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/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/designer-toolkit/skills/design-token-audit .claude/skills/design-token-audit && 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-token-audit
GitHub stars
2.9k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~483 tokens
SKILL.md length
235 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
107
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Audit token usage across a product for coverage, drift, and hard-coded values.

  • Works in 6 steps: Inventory — Extract all visual values… → Categorize — Group by type (color,… → Map — Match values to existing tokens → …
  • Tokens exist and you suspect they are being bypassed
  • SKILL.md covers What You Do, Audit Scope, Audit Process and Audit Report Format, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Design Token Audit is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Audit token usage across a product for coverage, drift, and hard-coded values. Use when tokens exist and you suspect they are being bypassed. For defining tokens in the first place, use design-token (design-systems).

Its SKILL.md is about 480 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering Design tokens and Design systems. The repository describes itself as: Designer Skills Collection: agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design — from research to systems, UI, interaction, and delivery. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tokens exist and you suspect they are being bypassed
  • Tasks that involve Design tokens
  • Tasks that involve Design systems

Example prompts

  • “/design-token-audit”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Inventory — Extract all visual values from code/design files
  2. Categorize — Group by type (color, spacing, typography, etc.)
  3. Map — Match values to existing tokens
  4. Flag — Identify hard-coded values, mismatches, and gaps
  5. Prioritize — Rank issues by frequency and impact
  6. Recommend — Suggest new tokens, migrations, and cleanup

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a6930c. 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

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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 Token Audit loads about 483 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 235 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~59
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~483

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills at commit 9a6930c, republished under its MIT licence (© Owl-Listener). 235 words, ~483 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/design-token-audit/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
design-token-audit
description
Audit token usage across a product for coverage, drift, and hard-coded values. Use when tokens exist and you suspect they are being bypassed. For defining tokens in the first place, use `design-token` (design-systems).

Design Token Audit

You are an expert in auditing design token adoption and consistency across products.

What You Do

You audit how design tokens are used (or not used) in a product, identifying inconsistencies, gaps, and hard-coded values.

Audit Scope

Token Coverage
  • What percentage of visual properties use tokens?
  • Which properties are commonly hard-coded?
  • Are the right tier of tokens used (global vs semantic vs component)?
Token Consistency
  • Are the same tokens used for the same purposes?
  • Are there redundant tokens (different names, same value)?
  • Are deprecated tokens still in use?
Token Gaps
  • Are there visual values that should be tokens but are not?
  • Are there use cases not covered by the existing token set?
  • Do custom values suggest missing token scale steps?

Audit Process

  1. Inventory — Extract all visual values from code/design files
  2. Categorize — Group by type (color, spacing, typography, etc.)
  3. Map — Match values to existing tokens
  4. Flag — Identify hard-coded values, mismatches, and gaps
  5. Prioritize — Rank issues by frequency and impact
  6. Recommend — Suggest new tokens, migrations, and cleanup

Audit Report Format

  • Executive summary (token adoption percentage, key findings)
  • Detailed findings by category
  • Hard-coded value inventory with suggested token replacements
  • Recommended new tokens
  • Migration plan and priority

Best Practices

  • Audit both design files and code
  • Automate detection where possible (lint rules)
  • Focus on high-impact categories first (color, spacing)
  • Track adoption over time
  • Make the audit results actionable, not just informational

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Files

Just SKILL.md in designer-toolkit/skills/design-token-audit of Owl-Listener/designer-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a6930c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Design Token Audit

What does Design Token Audit do?

Audit token usage across a product for coverage, drift, and hard-coded values. Design Token Audit is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Audit token usage across a product for coverage, drift, and hard-coded values.

When should I use Design Token Audit?

Design Token Audit fits situations like: tokens exist and you suspect they are being bypassed; tasks that involve Design tokens; tasks that involve Design systems.

How do I install Design Token Audit in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-token-audit -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (designer-toolkit/skills/design-token-audit in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .claude/skills/design-token-audit in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Design Token Audit in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-token-audit -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (designer-toolkit/skills/design-token-audit in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .agents/skills/design-token-audit in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Design Token Audit 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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-token-audit -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-token-audit, .gemini/skills/design-token-audit, .github/skills/design-token-audit and .opencode/skills/design-token-audit in your project.

What does Design Token Audit need to run?

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

Does Design Token Audit access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Design Token Audit 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 Token Audit use?

Design Token Audit 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 Design Token Audit use?

About 483 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Design Token Audit?

Owl-Listener (a GitHub user) maintains it in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which has 2,871 GitHub stars. The repository holds 107 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 5, 2026.

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