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Maintain Design Md

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: frontend  ·  Last updated:
How to author and maintain a `DESIGN.md` file at the root of any Lossless project (site, splash page, plugin landing, fundraise deck) following Google Stitch's open spec. Use whenever a project is missing a `DESIGN.md` and an agent needs the project's visual identity in machine-readable form; whenever the user mentions "design tokens", "design system", "DESIGN.md", or "Stitch spec"; whenever theme/CSS-token work changes the runtime values (new CSS custom property in `:root`, renamed token, new mode, new component pattern, refreshed palette, refreshed typography scale) and the documented contract has drifted; whenever a sibling skill (`generate-consistent-og-images`, `theme-system`, `astro-knots`) needs to read locked design values; whenever the user says "the agent doesn't know what color we use" or "let's write down the design system." Encodes (1) the Stitch spec's frontmatter token groups (colors, typography, rounded, spacing, components) and the eight prose sections in canonical order, (2) the maintenance triggers — what kinds of code changes should bounce back into the document, (3) the "runtime CSS is source of truth, DESIGN.md is the contract" discipline, (4) the precedent for off-spec extensions like an `imagery:` block, (5) anti-patterns. The skill never sees an API key or makes network calls — it's a pure-document discipline.

What this skill does

Maintain Design Md is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the frontend sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/maintain-design-md/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use whenever a project is missing a `DESIGN.md` and an agent needs the project's visual identity in machine-readable form; whenever the user mentions "design tokens", "design system", "DESIGN.

Who uses this skill

The Maintain Design Md Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/maintain-design-md
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/maintain-design-md/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/maintain-design-md/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/maintain-design-md/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/maintain-design-md/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\maintain-design-md\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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