design-style-picker
An agent skill by daymade, from daymade/claude-code-skills. Tags: brainstorming, design, evaluation, ui-ux, visual-art.
What it does
Batch-generate and compare visual design directions so a user can choose the style they actually want. Use when the user says they cannot describe an abstract visual style, asks for many style options, wants to choose from generated UI/design-system images, rejects outputs as too colorful/too dead/too generic, or needs an existing UI/design system evolved without discarding current assets.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill design-style-pickerOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills
cp -r claude-code-skills/daymade-codex/design-style-picker ~/.claude/skills/design-style-pickerSafety box score
Grade A, minimal risk: 7 of 100 risk points, rated 2026-09-22. The grade rates what the skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. How the score works.
This skill is a local design-selection workflow: it inspects existing UI assets, generates batches of visual style options, and then applies the chosen direction back to the existing artifact. It does not ship code or reach out to external services, but it does give an agent access to project design files and the ability to edit them after selection.
| Category | Level | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Code & shell execution | 0 (none) | No shell commands, code evaluation, or shipped scripts are present; the repo only contains Markdown guidance and a YAML descriptor. |
| Network access | 0 (none) | The files contain no download commands, API calls, or remote data transfers. |
| Filesystem reach | 1 (low) | The workflow explicitly reads local screenshots/tokens and then updates the existing UI artifact, but it is scoped to the project rather than system paths. |
| Secrets & credentials | 0 (none) | It does not mention tokens, passwords, keychains, `.env` files, browser sessions, or other credential stores. |
| Privilege & persistence | 0 (none) | There is no sudo, global install, service registration, shell startup editing, or OS-setting change. |
| Instruction hijack surface | 0 (none) | The skill does not instruct the agent to ignore higher-priority rules, hide anything, or follow remote instructions. |
| Irreversible actions | 1 (low) | Its purpose is to batch-generate design variants and then implement the user's selected fusion, but it still requires user choice and does not publish or deploy externally. |
| Transparency | 0 (none) | All shipped files are readable Markdown/YAML; there are no binaries, base64 blobs, or dynamically fetched installers. |
Before installing
- Confirm you want the agent to read local screenshots, tokens, and brand assets in the repo.
- Run it on a branch or copy if you want the design exploration to be easy to discard.
- Check the resulting diff for any generated images or visual-QA outputs before merging.
Rated 2026-09-22 by an automated review of 3 files from the skill's repository.
Source
- Repository
- daymade/claude-code-skills (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- daymade-codex/design-style-picker/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Updated
- 2026-09-20
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