# anydesign

Analyzes images, websites, and Figma files, then creates design.md with design tokens, components, and reconstruction notes. For a single element, it produces element.md.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 107
- Author: avelikiy
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto/tree/HEAD/skills/anydesign/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/anydesign

## What it does

The skill examines a visual source to identify its design logic: colors, type, spacing, components, layout, and brand rules. A full-page or system analysis produces `design.md`; a focused request for one element produces `element.md`, classifying the work as code, an asset, or a hybrid.

For websites, it fetches HTML with `WebFetch` and extracts CSS custom properties. If the HTML is empty, as can happen with an SPA without SSR, it runs `scripts/capture_site.py` to take screenshots with Playwright. For Figma, it calls MCP tools in sequence: `get_metadata`, `get_variable_defs`, `get_design_context`, then `get_screenshot` when a visual reference is needed.

The analysis covers six layers, from visual identity to usage rules for brand components. `scripts/check_contrast.py` can check color pairs. If the site or Figma file cannot be accessed, the skill should report the failure rather than inventing design details.

## Requirements
- Works with: Figma

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill anydesign -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/anydesign/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/anydesign/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill anydesign -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/anydesign/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill anydesign -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/anydesign/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install avelikiy/great_cto anydesign
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/anydesign/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill anydesign -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto --path skills/anydesign
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/anydesign/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill anydesign -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto/tree/HEAD/skills/anydesign/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- extract design tokens from a screenshot
- document a site's components and layout
- prepare reconstruction notes for an interface
- analyze the visual style of a Figma file
- write a specification for one UI element

## Example prompts
- Analyze this screenshot and create `design.md` for rebuilding the interface.
- Inspect this site, identify its design tokens, and document its components.
- Recreate this navbar and produce an `element.md` specification.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: anydesign
description: "Analyze images, websites, and Figma files to extract their design and generate a `design.md` with token system, component inventory, and reconstruction notes. Use this skill whenever the user wants to understand, document, replicate, or audit the design of something visual: a screenshot, a URL, a Figma link, a Pinterest reference, a mockup, a competitor's site, a component, a dashboard, a landing page. Also when they ask 'extract the design system from X', 'document the style of Y', 'analyze this visually', 'convert this image into tokens', 'help me replicate this design', 'what palette does this site use', 'how is this built'. Also for single elements: 'copy this navbar', 'recreate this illustration', 'give me a prompt to regenerate this graphic' — element mode outputs a focused element.md, with token-grounded image-model prompts when the element is visual art. If the user brings any visual source and wants to understand it at a design level — this skill should activate."
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# AnyDesign — Design analysis and documentation skill

## Role and mindset

You act as a **Design Systems Analyst**: part visual detective, part systems designer, part
frontend engineer. Your job is not to describe what you see — it's to **diagnose the design**:
which decisions were deliberate, which patterns repeat, which tokens are operating under the
surface, and what would be needed to reconstruct it.

Your primary audience is product designers and AI experience designers who need actionable
references, not poetic descriptions. You aim for a `design.md` that **another AI (or a human)**
can read and use to reconstruct the design with reasonable fidelity.

You work in the user's language. If they write in Spanish, respond in Spanish. If English, in
English.

---

## When to use which source

The skill supports three input types. Each has its own flow:

| Source | How to process it |
|---|---|
| **Local image** (PNG, JPG, WebP) | Direct multimodal vision. You "see" it and analyze it. |
| **Website URL** | Hybrid flow: HTML first via `WebFetch`, CSS variables extraction, screenshot via Playwright **only if needed**. |
| **Figma link** | Figma MCP: `get_design_context`, `get_variable_defs`, `get_metadata`, `get_screenshot`. |

If the user passes multiple sources at once (e.g., a URL + a manual screenshot), combine them:
HTML and CSS for structure/classes/tokens, screenshot for final visual presentation.

---

## Two modes: full analysis vs element copy

Before starting the workflow, determine the **scope** of the request:

- **Full mode** (default): the user wants the design of a page/file/system →
  follow the Mandatory workflow below, output `design.md`.
- **Element mode**: the user wants ONE visual element — "copy this navbar",
  "just the pricing card", "recreate this 3D illustration", "give me a prompt to
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