How Claude Design Skills works
A design skill is a small, portable package that teaches Claude Code to build in a specific visual style. Here’s the whole workflow, start to finish.
Filter web aesthetics by category, from SaaS minimalism to brutalism, cyberpunk and CRT terminals.
See a shared set of real components — nav, hero, cards, forms — restyled entirely by the style's token map.
Copy SKILL.md, tokens.json and tokens.css, or grab the zip, and Claude Code builds in that exact style.
What’s inside each skill
The instruction file Claude Code reads — style summary, signature elements, fonts and the full token map.
Machine-readable design tokens — colors, radius, shadow and type — ready to import into any build pipeline.
Drop-in CSS custom properties. Apply to your root and every component restyles from the variables.
A Tailwind v4 @theme block — utilities like bg-accent and font-display come straight from the style's tokens.
Google's open DESIGN.md format — import the style straight into Claude Design and other compatible tools.
Four ways to use a style
SKILL.md · tokens.json · tokens.css · tailwind.css
unzip <slug>.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/
Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill → <slug>.zip
npx shadcn add <site-url>/r/<slug>.json