frontend-design

Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, artifacts, posters, or applications (examples include websites, landing pages, dashboards, React components, HTML/CSS layouts, or when styling/beautifying any web UI). Generates creative, polished code and UI design that avoids generic AI aesthetics.

Quality

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Quality

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

Well-organized, self-contained guidance with a clear think-then-build structure and efficient sectioning. Its weakness is actionability: the aesthetic advice stays largely abstract with few concrete, executable specifics, holding it back from a top-tier content score.

Suggestions

Add a concrete minimal code skeleton (e.g. a CSS-variables palette block or a staggered-reveal keyframe example) so the aesthetic guidance has a copy-paste-ready starting point.

Replace abstract directives like 'create atmosphere and depth' with at least one specific technique token (e.g. 'layer a noise texture via an SVG feTurbulence filter or a PNG grain overlay').

Trim motivational filler ('Don't hold back', 'Remember: Claude is capable of extraordinary creative work') to tighten conciseness toward a 5.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly lean and directive ('Avoid generic fonts like Arial and Inter', 'Use CSS variables for consistency') but retains some motivational padding ('Don't hold back', 'Remember: Claude is capable of extraordinary creative work'). Not a 5 because that exhortation filler does not earn its tokens.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides some concrete pointers (CSS variables, animation-delay, Motion library for React) but the bulk is abstract direction ('create atmosphere and depth', 'unexpected layouts') with no executable examples. Not a 4 because key implementation specifics are missing, though as an instruction-only skill code absence itself is not penalized.	3 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Clear two-step sequence (Design Thinking then implementation) with coherent sectioning; no validation checkpoints but a creative-design skill does not require them and no destructive/batch cap applies. Not a 5 because checkpoints remain implicit and the 'implement' step is loosely defined.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	No bundle files exist, the body is ~36 lines, self-contained, and well-organized into clearly headed sections, matching the rubric's under-50-lines/no-external-references exception for a top score.	5 / 5
	Total	16 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description with explicit 'what' and 'when' clauses, excellent natural trigger-term coverage, and a distinctive design-quality niche. Minor abstract phrasing ('high design quality') keeps specificity and distinctiveness just below the top anchor.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists several specific actions ('build web components, pages, artifacts, posters, or applications', 'Generates creative, polished code and UI design') with only minor abstract gaps like 'high design quality'. Not a 5 because 'high design quality' is somewhat abstract rather than a concrete enumerated action.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' ('Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces', 'Generates creative, polished code and UI design') and 'when' ('Use this skill when the user asks to build... or when styling/beautifying any web UI') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Comprehensive natural-term coverage including synonyms and concrete nouns users would actually say: 'websites, landing pages, dashboards, React components, HTML/CSS layouts', 'styling/beautifying any web UI'. Matches the anchor for comprehensive coverage including synonyms.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Mostly distinct niche (design-quality frontend with anti-generic-AI-slop framing) with only minor overlap risk against general coding skills. Not a 5 because frontend building broadly overlaps with generic code-generation skills.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar
Path: skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md
Commit: 6ed46da

Reviewed: 8 days ago

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