Agent skill

Responsive Patterns

by Owl-Listener in Owl-Listener/designpowers

A skill your agent uses when designing complex responsive layouts — breakpoint strategy, layout shifts, content reflow, responsive typography, container queries, and ensuring the experience works…

MITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Responsive Patterns

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designpowers --skill responsive-patterns -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designpowers responsive-patterns --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/designpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/responsive-patterns .claude/skills/responsive-patterns && 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
responsive-patterns
GitHub stars
251
Token cost
~543 tokens
SKILL.md length
224 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
33
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when designing complex responsive layouts — breakpoint strategy, layout shifts, content reflow, responsive typography, container queries, and ensuring the experience works…

  • Works in 4 steps: Start at 320px → Widen slowly → When the layout looks wrong — that's a… → …
  • Designing complex responsive layouts — breakpoint strategy
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, Breakpoint Strategy, Content Priority Shifting and Responsive Typography, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Responsive Patterns is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designpowers. Use when designing complex responsive layouts — breakpoint strategy, layout shifts, content reflow, responsive typography, container queries, and ensuring the experience works across the full device spectrum

Its SKILL.md is about 540 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 Responsive design and Typography. The repository describes itself as: An agent design team you control: 10 agents that run an inclusive design process while you direct. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Designing complex responsive layouts — breakpoint strategy
  • Responsive typography
  • Container queries
  • Ensuring the experience works across the full device spectrum

Example prompts

  • “/responsive-patterns”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Start at 320px
  2. Widen slowly
  3. When the layout looks wrong — that's a breakpoint
  4. Name by behaviour, not device

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cb00757. 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 css).

    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

Responsive Patterns loads about 543 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 224 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~57
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~543

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/designpowers at commit cb00757, republished under its MIT licence (© Owl-Listener). 224 words, ~543 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/responsive-patterns/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
responsive-patterns
description
Use when designing complex responsive layouts — breakpoint strategy, layout shifts, content reflow, responsive typography, container queries, and ensuring the experience works across the full device spectrum

Responsive Patterns

Responsive design is not "make it fit on a phone." It is designing for every context — one-handed on a bus, zoomed to 200% on a desktop, on a tablet in sunlight.

When to Use

  • When ui-composition defines a layout that spans breakpoints
  • When the design-critic flags responsive issues
  • When building anything more complex than single-column

Breakpoint Strategy

Content drives breakpoints, not devices. Do not use 768px because "that's tablet." Use the width where your content breaks.

  1. Start at 320px
  2. Widen slowly
  3. When the layout looks wrong — that's a breakpoint
  4. Name by behaviour, not device
css
--bp-stack: 0;
--bp-sidebar: 640px;
--bp-columns: 900px;
--bp-wide: 1200px;

Content Priority Shifting

At narrow widths, decide what gets:

  • Kept — essential for the task
  • Collapsed — behind a toggle
  • Deferred — lower in scroll order
  • Hidden — removed (last resort)

Document these decisions.

Responsive Typography

css
--font-size-body: clamp(1rem, 0.9rem + 0.5vw, 1.125rem);
--font-size-h1: clamp(1.75rem, 1.5rem + 1.25vw, 2.5rem);

Body text minimum 16px. Line length 45-75 characters. At 200% zoom, no horizontal scroll (WCAG 1.4.10).

Container Queries vs Media Queries

Use caseUse
Page-level layout@media
Component adaptation@container

Touch Targets

44x44px minimum at mobile. 8px minimum gap between adjacent targets.

Testing

Test at: 320px, one pixel below each breakpoint, 200% zoom at 1280px, landscape phone, and real devices.

What You Deliver

  • Breakpoint definitions with rationale
  • Layout behaviour at each breakpoint
  • Content priority decisions
  • Typography scale with clamp() values
  • Touch target verification

Integration

  • Informed by: ui-composition, design-discovery
  • Feeds into: design-builder, accessibility-reviewer

© Owl-Listener, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/responsive-patterns of Owl-Listener/designpowers.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cb00757

Compare with similar skills

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Questions about Responsive Patterns

What does Responsive Patterns do?

A skill your agent uses when designing complex responsive layouts — breakpoint strategy, layout shifts, content reflow, responsive typography, container queries, and ensuring the experience works…. Responsive Patterns is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designpowers.

When should I use Responsive Patterns?

Responsive Patterns fits situations like: designing complex responsive layouts — breakpoint strategy; responsive typography; container queries; ensuring the experience works across the full device spectrum.

How do I install Responsive Patterns in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Responsive Patterns in Codex?

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

Can I use Responsive Patterns 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/designpowers --skill responsive-patterns -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/responsive-patterns, .gemini/skills/responsive-patterns, .github/skills/responsive-patterns and .opencode/skills/responsive-patterns in your project.

What does Responsive Patterns need to run?

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

Does Responsive Patterns 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 Responsive Patterns 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 Responsive Patterns use?

Responsive Patterns 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 Responsive Patterns use?

About 543 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.2k 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 Responsive Patterns?

Owl-Listener (a GitHub user) maintains it in Owl-Listener/designpowers, which has 251 GitHub stars. The repository holds 33 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 23, 2026.

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