design-system SKILL.md skillA

design-system from tomcounsell/ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add tomcounsell/ai/design-system@git:20261027.b1054fc

Pins git:20261027.b1054fc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: tomcounsell/ai
Path: skills/valor/bama/skills/design/design-system/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20261027.b1054fc, committed Oct 27, 2026
Size: 7,039 bytes
Repository stars: 31
License: GPL-3.0

Accent color and design system for a macOS app, from the app's accent and the accent picker in Settings to Swift tokens in code plus a design/DESIGN-SYSTEM.md that says which token to use when. Use when the user wants a brand or accent color, wants people to pick a color, when an app has more than a few screens, when screens drift apart or animations feel inconsistent, or when the user asks for themes, a style guide, or design tokens.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Design system

A design system is a short list of **tokens** in code and one page that
says which token to use when. Every screen uses tokens, never raw values.
Then a change in one place changes the whole app, and an agent can review a
screen against one page.

Start from `mac-design`. Tokens cover only what the system does not:
the accent, custom surfaces, radii, motion, overlays, and custom controls.

The app keeps Apple's look. Only the accent color changes. For parts of
your own (a custom sidebar, buttons, icons), call the Skill tool with
`design-kit`. To copy the look of an app the user names, call it with
`design-from-app`.

The template already has the base in `Sources/<App>/UI/`:

- `Theme.swift`: the accent colors (`Theme.all`), the saved choice
  (`ThemeStore`), the tokens `Palette.accent`, `Palette.accentText`,
  `Palette.onAccent`, and `.themed()`, which tints every scene.
- `AppearanceSettings.swift`: Settings > Appearance, where people pick the
  accent. Light and dark mode follow the Mac. Apple advises against an
  app-specific mode setting; add a System/Light/Dark picker only when the
  owner asks for one, with System as the default. [HIG Dark Mode]
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add tomcounsell/ai/design-system@sha256:e91b97bb1e03e484

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.b1054fc, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_bq6xi2ai4pnrcdxv.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_bq6xi2ai4pnrcdxv)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 27, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261027.b1054fc latest	2026-10-27	b1054fc	7,039 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7039 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

tomcounsell/ai · 31 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bq6xi2ai4pnrcdxv
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tomcounsell/ai/design-system
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e91b97bb1e03e484817ac15c47aac8c776bf79ec580a89fd767ab43f02505e15

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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