Design Stylecards

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user asks for polished elevation
• A border gradient
• A mesh background
• Any make it look like X request where taste should come from a versioned recipe instead of being reinvented per session

Example prompts

• “make it look like X”
• “/design-stylecards”

Requirements

• Python 3
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Claude Code 2.1.277+
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Glob, Edit, Write

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Resolve the request to a recipe
2. 2Show or apply
3. 3Respect the recipe's Avoid block

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e4ff8d9. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • Edit
  • Write

  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 bash and python).

  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.

• Compatibility

  Claude Code 2.1.277+

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Design Stylecards loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 105 tokens; SKILL.md has 412 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~105

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

~1.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~2.6k

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 yonatangross/orchestkit at commit e4ff8d9, republished under its MIT licence (© yonatangross). 412 words, ~1,261 tokens.

name

design-stylecards

description

Declarative catalog of named aesthetic recipes — exact shadow stacks, glass surfaces, gradient treatments, and type scales as copy-paste values with Use-When and Avoid rules. Use when the user asks for polished elevation, glassmorphism, a border gradient, a mesh background, or any 'make it look like X' request where taste should come from a versioned recipe instead of being reinvented per session.

allowed-tools

Read, Grep, Glob, Edit, Write

compatibility

Claude Code 2.1.277+

license

MIT

argument-hint

[list | <recipe-name> | apply <recipe> to <file>]

context

fork

background

false

user-invocable

true

model

sonnet

skills

design-system-tokens

metadata.category

document-asset-creation

metadata.version

1.0.0

metadata.author

OrchestKit

design-stylecards list                      # Catalog index
design-stylecards elevation/md              # Show one recipe
design-stylecards apply glass/dark to src/components/Panel.tsx

Read("references/stylecards.md")   # The catalog — always read before choosing
# Match the user's intent to ONE recipe by its Use-When line.
# No match → say so and offer the closest two; never freehand values.

© yonatangross, 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 1 other file (references) in src/skills/design-stylecards of yonatangross/orchestkit.

• SKILL.md
• references/stylecards.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e4ff8d9