frontend-design
Defines a named visual aesthetic, selects typography pairings, builds CSS token systems, and adds entrance animations for high-design-quality pages. Use when the user asks to design a landing page, style a marketing site, create a distinctive UI theme, pick fonts, or add CSS animations — specifically when visual polish and brand identity matter rather than generic component scaffolding.
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Discovery
100%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is an excellent skill description that hits all the key criteria. It lists specific concrete capabilities, provides rich natural trigger terms, explicitly states both what it does and when to use it, and clearly differentiates itself from adjacent skills with the 'rather than generic component scaffolding' boundary clause.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'Defines a named visual aesthetic', 'selects typography pairings', 'builds CSS token systems', and 'adds entrance animations'. These are clearly defined, actionable capabilities. | 3 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (defines visual aesthetics, selects typography, builds CSS tokens, adds animations) and 'when' with an explicit 'Use when...' clause listing specific trigger scenarios. Also includes a helpful negative boundary ('rather than generic component scaffolding'). | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes strong natural keywords users would say: 'landing page', 'marketing site', 'UI theme', 'pick fonts', 'CSS animations', 'visual polish', 'brand identity'. These cover a good range of natural user language for this domain. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | The description carves out a clear niche around high-design-quality visual styling, typography, and CSS tokens. The explicit contrast with 'generic component scaffolding' helps distinguish it from general UI/component skills, reducing conflict risk significantly. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 12 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
100%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a well-crafted skill that efficiently communicates a complete design workflow with concrete, executable examples and clear validation steps. It strikes an excellent balance between providing enough actionable detail in the main file while deferring extended content to clearly referenced supporting documents. The quality checklist with specific measurable criteria is a strong validation mechanism.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The content is lean and efficient. It avoids explaining what CSS custom properties are or how animations work, trusting Claude's competence. Every section serves a clear purpose with no padding or unnecessary context. | 3 / 3 |
Actionability | The quick-start example is fully executable CSS with concrete token definitions, a real keyframe animation, and a proper reduced-motion media query. The quality checklist provides specific, measurable criteria (e.g., '≥4.5:1 contrast', '<500ms animations'). | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 5-step design workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit dependencies (step 3 uses tokens from step 2) and includes a validation step (step 5) that references the quality checklist. The checklist itself serves as a verification checkpoint before completion. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill provides a concise overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references to COMPONENTS.md for card/hero patterns and REFERENCE.md for design principles and typography catalogue. Content is appropriately split between the overview and supporting files. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 12 / 12 Passed |
Validation
100%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 11 / 11 Passed
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- monkilabs/opencastle
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