/design-tokens

name: design-tokens
description: Generate, extend, or audit design tokens in DTCG format with the 3-tier architecture (primitive → semantic → component). Use when the user wants a color palette, type scale, spacing/shadow/radius/motion tokens, multi-brand theming, or wants to validate token files. Covers colors, typography, spacing, shadows, borders, breakpoints, motion, gradients, opacity, blur, sizing, states, theming.

Skill: Design Tokens

Requirements

This skill needs the full UX/UI Agent Skills kit: the gates, the references and the design-system library. Install it with `npx ux-ui-agent-skills@3.1.0 init` or as the Claude Code plugin. `npx skills@1.7.6 add` copies the skill folder and nothing else. Installed that way, this skill runs in **guidance-only mode**: no gate runs, so it gives no verdict.

> **Step 0: is the kit here?** Check once: > `ls ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo KIT_OK || echo KIT_MISSING` > On `KIT_MISSING`, open your reply with: "Guidance-only mode: the UX/UI Agent > Skills kit is not installed here, so no gate ran and nothing below is > measured." Then work from this file and general practice, under three rules. > Do not guess or cite the contents of a kit file you could not open. State no > measured number (no contrast ratio, no N/N, no "passes WCAG"): write "not > verified" where one would go. End with a line `Skipped (kit not installed):` > that names every gate script this file tells you to run, then the install > command above.

Produce and maintain DTCG (`$type`/`$value`) tokens following the project's 3-tier system.

Steps

1. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../.claude/rules/tokens-and-color.md` → "Token System" + "Color Guidelines" and `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../.claude/rules/typography-and-spacing.md` for the rules (4px base, Major Third scale, OKLCH palette generation, dark-mode-at-semantic-layer). 2. Read the relevant existing files in `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens/` to match structure: `colors.json`, `typography.json`, `spacing.json`, `shadows.json`, `borders.json`, `breakpoints.json`, `motion.json`, `gradients.json`, `opacity.json`, `blur.json`, `sizing.json`, `states.json`, `theming.json`. 3. Generate/extend tokens:

• Primitives = raw values (never used directly). Semantic = purpose aliases. Component = component-scoped.
• New palettes: generate 11 OKLCH shades; verify 500 ≥ 4.5:1 on white (text), 600 ≥ 3:1 (UI) using the `a11y-audit` skill / `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../scripts/contrast.py`.
• Multi-brand/density → `theming.json`.

4. **Validate**: run `python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../scripts/validate_tokens.py` (JSON validity + alias resolution).

Output

DTCG JSON. Preserve `$description` on every token. Reference, never hardcode.