Design Project Scaffold

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Starting a new product or app that will use this design system
• Setting up the recommended Claude Code folder layout for a design project
• Adding the engine folders and render gates to a fresh project directory

Example prompts

• “Scaffold a new design project in ./apps/storefront-redesign.”
• “Set up the product-design template for my new app and install the render gate dependency.”
• “Create a fresh project folder for the loyalty-app prototype using the reference structure.”

Requirements

• The ux-ui-agent-skills kit, installed through npx ux-ui-agent-skills init or the plugin
• Node and npm, for npx and the Playwright dev dependency

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Ask for the target directory if not given. Create it if it does not exist.
2. 2Copy every file of ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../templates/product-design/ into it, preserving the tree.
3. 3Install the engine next to it so the gates the brief references actually run
4. 4Install the render gates' one dependency in the target: npm i -D playwright.
5. 5Fill in the placeholders in CLAUDE.md with the user: product, primary user,
6. 6Point design-tokens.json at the brand: replace the primitive.brand ramp,
7. 7Remind the user to fill reference/ with real screens and public/images/

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 14f8d44. 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:

  • npx
  • python3
  • npm

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx 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 these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • FIGMA_API_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Design Project Scaffold loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 53 tokens; SKILL.md has 402 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~53

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.1k

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

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 plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills at commit 14f8d44, republished under its MIT licence (© plugin87). 402 words, ~1,131 tokens.

name

scaffold-project

description

Scaffold a new design-product project that matches the recommended Claude Code layout (the reference structure). Use when starting a fresh product/app that will be built with this design system.

disable-model-invocation

true

<target>/
  # CONTEXT CLAUDE LOADS
  CLAUDE.md              the brief Claude reads every session
  CLAUDE.local.md        your personal prefs, gitignored
  .mcp.json              Figma, Notion, Drive connections

  # TEAM TOOLKIT
  .claude/
    rules/               conventions, loaded only when relevant
    skills/              repeatable workflows, off main context
    commands/            your custom slash commands
    settings.json        shared permissions, checked into git

  # YOUR PROJECT
  design-tokens.json     source of truth: color, type, spacing
  src/components/        the real UI Claude reads and edits
  public/images/         real images so prototypes don't break
  reference/             real screens Claude studies for context

npx ux-ui-agent-skills new <target>

python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../scripts/validate_template.py

© plugin87, 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 .claude/skills/scaffold-project of plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 14f8d44