Design
Run /design with a design task, and the agent works on it as a designer: it asks about the audience and constraints first, settles on a look, then builds in HTML. It works from the Claude Design system prompt and its design skills, taken from claude-design-system-prompt.
/design a pricing page for the three plans in PLANS.mdDesign skills
Section titled “Design skills”The agent follows one of these procedures when your task calls for it. Name one to ask for it, such as “do a polish pass”.
| Skill | Does |
|---|---|
discovery-questions |
Asks a round of questions before starting new or vague work |
frontend-aesthetic-direction |
Commits to typography, colour and mood when there’s no brand to follow |
wireframe |
Sketches several low-fidelity layouts or flows to choose from |
make-a-deck |
Builds a slide deck as one HTML file |
make-a-prototype |
Builds a clickable prototype with real state |
make-tweakable |
Adds a panel of live controls for colours, fonts, spacing and copy to a finished design |
generate-variations |
Produces three or more distinct takes on a screen or component |
design-system-extract |
Pulls colour, type and spacing tokens from a codebase, site or brand guide |
component-extract |
Lists the reusable components in a finished design |
accessibility-audit |
Checks contrast, structure, keyboard use and motion, and fixes what it finds |
ai-slop-check |
Finds and replaces the generic look of AI-made templates |
hierarchy-rhythm-review |
Fixes what the eye reads first and the spacing between elements |
interaction-states-pass |
Adds missing hover, focus, disabled and loading states |
polish-pass |
Runs the four reviews above as a final check before you share a design |
