# superdesign

This plugin designs UI, presentations, and graphics on an infinite canvas. It reads your codebase and uses the project’s design context.

- plugin · `type=plugin` · Claude Code · ★ 904
- Author: Superdesign dev, Inc.
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/superdesigndev/superdesign-skill
- Updated: 2026-08-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/plugins/superdesign

## What it does

superdesign inspects the current codebase, finds a visual direction, and helps establish a design system. It then creates drafts for interfaces, slide decks, or graphics on an infinite canvas, where you can refine or branch them.

The plugin can extract a site’s visual language from a URL, search a prompt library for references, and work with an existing project system. The project design system lives in `.superdesign/design-system.md`; when that file is missing, setup comes first.

You need the `@superdesign/cli` package and a completed `superdesign login`. In Claude Code, avoid adding the same skill with `npx skills add`, since that creates a second copy without the plugin namespace.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install superdesign@claude-plugins-official
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official
```

## When to use it
- design a page or user flow
- build a design system from an existing codebase
- create a presentation from an approved slide outline
- produce a poster, cover, or advertising graphic

## Example prompts
- Run `/superdesign:superdesign` and redesign the settings page while keeping the current project context.
- Run `/superdesign:superdesign` and create a design system from this codebase.
- Run `/superdesign:superdesign` and make a presentation about our product launch.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# Superdesign: UI, presentations, and graphics for coding agents

**Stop shipping AI-slop UI.** Coding agents write great code and mediocre interfaces: generic layouts, default shadcn everything, no taste. Superdesign is the skill that gives your agent design judgment, so the UI it ships actually looks considered.

Install it once and your agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and 70+ others) can find real design direction and generate + iterate high-quality UI, presentations, and graphics on an infinite canvas, all without leaving your terminal.

> Powered by [superdesign.dev](https://superdesign.dev), the AI product design agent.

[![Superdesign skill demo](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AZYJWyWZ6pQ/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://youtu.be/AZYJWyWZ6pQ)

*▶ Watch the skill in action.*

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## What is Superdesign?

**Superdesign is an AI product design agent.** It gives coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and 70+ others) real design judgment, so the UI they ship looks considered instead of generic.

- **What it does** — finds design direction, sets up design systems, approves presentation outlines, and generates + iterates high-quality UI, slide decks, and graphics on an infinite canvas.
- **Who it's for** — developers, indie hackers, and product/UI designers who want to go from idea to shippable UI fast without leaving their coding agent.
- **How it's different** — style-preset skills just swap in a theme or a component library. Superdesign designs *into* your existing design system: it reads your code for context, gathers real style references, and produces branchable drafts you refine.
- **Cross-session continuity** — after the first real-codebase design, the skill remembers the project, draft, extracted components, and budgeted source-context bundle so later unchanged iterations resume without repeating codebase discovery.
- **Two ways in** — this skill from any coding agent, or the web app at [superdesign.dev](https://superdesign.dev).

> **Not the legacy IDE extension.** The archived open-source `superdesigndev/superdesign` VS Code extension is an older, separate project. This skill and [superdesign.dev](https://superdesign.dev) are the current, maintained product.

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## Install

**Any coding agent** — installs the skill for any of the [70+ supported coding agents](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills#supported-agents):

```
npx skills add superdesigndev/superdesign-skill
```

**Claude Code** — install it as a plugin instead, so it stays namespaced and updates with `/plugin update`:

```
/plugin marketplace add superdesigndev/superdesign-skill
/plugin install superdesign@superdesign
```

The skill is then invoked as `/superdesign:superdesign`. (Do not also run `npx skills add` in Claude Code — that installs a second, unnamespaced copy of the same skill.)

Either way, install the CLI it drives:

```
npm install -g @superdesign/cli@latest
superdesign login
```

## Use it

Just talk to your agent:

```
/superdesign help me redesign this settings page so it doesn't look like default AI slop
```

```
/superdesign set up a design system from my current codebase
```

```
/superdesign improve the design of my dashboard
```

```
/superdesign create an 8-slide presentation about our product launch
```

The skill handles the rest: it reads your code for context, gathers real style references, and produces design drafts you can branch and refine.

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# Core scenarios (what this skill handles)

1. **Design or improve UI** (feature/page/flow)
2. **Create a presentation** with an editable approved outline
3. **Create graphics** (posters, covers, social posts, and ads)
4. **Set or extract a design system**
5. **Generate supporting images or video**

## Tooling overview

### A) Inspiration & Style Tools (generic, always available)

Use these to discover style direction, references, and brand context. Browse the full [prompt library](https://superdesign.dev/library) in the web app, or query it from the CLI:

- **Search prompt library** (style/components/pages)

  ```bash
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