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Install anthropics/skills

Anthropic's official design-guidance skill, no scripts, Apache-2.0 LICENSE.txt in folder, what it changes and who it's for.

Verified · Repo on GitHub

What it does

Pure design guidance for building or reshaping UI: ground the design in the subject, pick deliberate typography/palette/layout, avoid templated defaults, make the hero the most characteristic thing. It changes how the agent designs — it does not generate code by itself.

Who made it / license / last checked

Anthropic (anthropics/skills) · License: Apache-2.0 — LICENSE.txt sits inside the skill folder · Repo last commit checked: 2026-10-28

Install

/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

From anthropics/skills README (Claude Code plugin route). The generic npx skills add anthropics/skills@frontend-design pattern is used by the Skills CLI ecosystem, but we verified the plugin command in the README, so we list that as primary.

What files / scripts it runs

SKILL.md (9,390 bytes, unchanged since 19 Oct) + LICENSE.txt. No scripts, no references folder, nothing executed. Lowest-risk shape a skill can have.

Pros

  • No code execution at all — just instructions
  • Official Anthropic skill, opinionated and specific rather than generic 'make it pretty'
  • Apache-2.0 in-folder license is clear

Cons

  • Outcomes still depend on the model following it; no tests or evals in the folder
  • Strong opinions may fight your existing design system — read it before using on a branded product

Alternatives

vercel-labs/agent-skills web-design-guidelines (not in this batch); doing nothing and art-directing in your prompt.

Notes

Skills.sh listed it at 1.0M installs on 19 Oct 2026 and 1.1M (#15) on 30 Oct 2026. Popularity here at least matches a genuinely useful, execution-free prompt — but we are rating the file we read, not the count.

Sources

Checked 19 Oct 2026 (Europe/Madrid) from local clones of the repos above. Repo last-commit is a repo date, not a per-skill release date. Install counts, where quoted, are skills.sh leaderboard figures fetched that day and are distribution, not quality.

Verified on 2026-11-04 through the GitHub API: it has had no commit since the 30 Oct check, so the files, sizes and verdict above still hold. Previous check on 2026-10-30, against a fresh clone (repo commit ca45fc4, 2026-10-28). Since 19 Oct: SKILL.md unchanged (9,390 bytes; its last commit, 41bbe19, is from 3 Sep 2026); still SKILL.md + Apache-2.0 LICENSE.txt only, no scripts. The plugin install line is unchanged in the README. Verdict unchanged.