Apply Aesthetic Agent Skill

Apply a visual direction — an archetype (high-end agency, editorial minimal, brutalist, soft-SaaS, dark-tech) or one of 138 named design systems (apple, linear-app, stripe, vercel, notion, material, shadcn, spotify, tesla…) — by resolving it into the token system. Use when the user wants a specific look/vibe/brand feel, or asks to make a design feel premium/expensive/non-generic.

442 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

482

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill apply-aesthetic

The instruction itself

3 sections, as written by the author

Skill: Apply Aesthetic

Choose and apply a design direction without breaking accessibility.

Steps

Brief Inference first (mandatory) — before any tokens, name it: industry/domain, audience & tone, the one mood adjective the result must earn, motion depth, and the layout-family sequence (taste/design-taste.md → Brief Inference + Variance Mandate). Generating before deciding = slop.
Pick a direction in taste/aesthetic-systems.md:
An archetype (recipe mapped to our tokens), or
A named library system — browse with python3 scripts/design_systems.py list (or search <term> / show <name>); specs live in design-systems/library/<name>/DESIGN.md.
Apply the Library Contract (in aesthetic-systems.md): re-point semantic.* tokens to the chosen system's color roles; map typography/spacing/radius/shadow/motion to tokens/*.json.
Verify contrast of every mapped color pair (scripts/contrast.py / a11y-audit). A brand value that fails must be adjusted — taste never overrides POUR.
Add motion per taste/motion-choreography.md; run the pre-flight aesthetic check in design-taste.md.

Output

Updated/overridden semantic tokens + notes on type/space/motion, then render via design-code. Confirm the result passes both the aesthetic check and accessibility.

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take plugin87/apply-aesthetic from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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