design-guide SKILL.md skillA
design-guide from paperclipai/paperclip is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add paperclipai/paperclip/design-guide@git:20260218.b6e24faPins git:20260218.b6e24fa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- paperclipai/paperclip
- Path
.claude/skills/design-guide/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260218.b6e24fa, committed Feb 18, 2026
- Size
- 12,682 bytes
- Repository stars
- 105,684
- License
- MIT
Paperclip UI design system guide for building consistent, reusable frontend components. Use when creating new UI components, modifying existing ones, adding pages or features to the frontend, styling UI elements, or when you need to understand the design language and conventions. Covers: component creation, design tokens, typography, status/priority systems, composition patterns, and the /design-guide showcase page. Always use this skill alongside the frontend-design skill (for visual quality)…
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
# Paperclip Design Guide Paperclip's UI is a professional-grade control plane — dense, keyboard-driven, dark-themed by default. Every pixel earns its place. **Always use with:** `frontend-design` (visual polish) and `web-design-guidelines` (web best practices). --- ## 1. Design Principles - **Dense but scannable.** Maximum information without clicks to reveal. Whitespace separates, not pads. - **Keyboard-first.** Global shortcuts (Cmd+K, C, [, ]). Power users rarely touch the mouse. - **Contextual, not modal.** Inline editing over dialog boxes. Dropdowns over page navigations. - **Dark theme default.** Neutral grays (OKLCH), not pure black. Accent colors for status/priority only. Text is the primary visual element. - **Component-driven.** Prefer reusable components that capture style conventions. Build at the right abstraction — not too granular, not too monolithic. --- ## 2. Tech Stack - **React 19** + **TypeScript** + **Vite** - **Tailwind CSS v4** with CSS variables (OKLCH color space) - **shadcn/ui** (new-york style, neutral base, CSS variables enabled) - **Radix UI** primitives (accessibility, focus management) - **Lucide React** icons (16px nav, 14px inline) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add paperclipai/paperclip/design-guide@sha256:07781469e7a386e6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260218.b6e24fa, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rarhbsweidd54yjr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Feb 18, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12682 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
paperclipai/paperclip · 105,684 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rarhbsweidd54yjr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=paperclipai/paperclip/design-guide GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/07781469e7a386e6c87b4453fbbf2928e7d06e30a8a9818ea0ce2498ed9301d0
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