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design-md · nexu-io — Claude Code skill: what it does, how to install

Creates and maintains DESIGN.md with design direction, tokens, and visual rules. Useful when an agent needs one source of truth for a project’s design system.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓ 
npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill design-md -a claude-code
Open on GitHub

What design-md does

The skill creates and manages DESIGN.md, a document for design direction, design tokens, and visual rules. It gives the agent one place to consult while planning an interface. The skill can be discovered by its name, design-md, or by triggers such as design.md, design doc, design tokens doc, and visual rules doc.

This catalogue entry is curated from Google Labs (Stitch) for OpenDesign. The full upstream workflow relies on the original assets, scripts, and references from the upstream bundle. Check the installed skill contents before expecting that workflow to be available.

design-md supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode. The repository uses the Apache-2.0 license.

What it helps with

  • create a DESIGN.md for a project
  • record design tokens in one document
  • capture visual rules for interface planning
  • give an agent a single design reference

Example prompts for the agent

  • Create `DESIGN.md` with the project’s design direction, tokens, and visual rules.
  • Review `design.md` and update it to match the current design system.
  • Create a design tokens doc for this project.

How to install design-md

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill design-md -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/design-md/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/design-md/

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Questions about design-md

How do I install `design-md` in Claude Code?

Run npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill design-md -a claude-code, then run npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill design-md -a claude-code again. The skill file is at ~/.claude/skills/design-md/SKILL.md.

What does `design-md` do?

It creates and manages DESIGN.md with design direction, tokens, and visual rules. The agent can find it by name or through its design-document trigger phrases.

What is needed for the full `design-md` workflow?

The full upstream workflow uses the original assets, scripts, and references from the upstream bundle. The catalogue entry is curated from Google Labs (Stitch).

Source text

SKILL.md · Apache-2.0 
---
name: design-md
description: |
  Create and manage DESIGN.md files. Useful for capturing design direction, tokens, and visual rules in a single source of truth.
triggers:
  - "design.md"
  - "design doc"
  - "design tokens doc"
  - "visual rules doc"
od:
  mode: design-system
  category: design-systems
  upstream: "https://github.com/google-labs-code/skills"
---

# design-md

> Curated from Google Labs (Stitch).

## What it does

Create and manage DESIGN.md files. Useful for capturing design direction, tokens, and visual rules in a single source of truth.

## Source

- Upstream: https://github.com/google-labs-code/skills
- Category: `design-systems`

## How to use

This catalogue entry advertises the skill in OpenDesign so the agent
discovers it during planning. To run the full upstream workflow with
its original assets, scripts, and references, install the upstream
bundle into your active agent's skills directory:

```bash
# Inspect the upstream README for exact paths
open https://github.com/google-labs-code/skills
```

Then ask the agent to invoke this skill by name (`design-md`) or with
one of the trigger phrases listed in this skill's frontmatter.

© nexu-io · Apache-2.0 · nexu-io/open-design

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