frontend-design-pointer

name: frontend-design-pointerdescription: "Point to Anthropic's frontend-design skill and explain when to use it. Use when asked how to install frontend-design, which skill sets aesthetic direction for a UI, or what handles the direction stage of the design pipeline. Produces the install command, a check that the install worked, guidance on when it fits and when it does not, and credit to the author with a link. Contains no upstream skill content."version: 1.0.0

Frontend Design (pointer)

This is a pointer, not a copy. It tells you when Anthropic's frontend-design skill is the right tool, how to install it from the source, and who to credit. The skill itself lives upstream and is not reproduced here.

What This Skill Produces

• A recommendation: whether the upstream skill fits the task in front of you
• The install command, and a way to confirm it worked
• Its place in the pipeline: stage 1, Direction, in ui-design-pipeline
• Attribution: author, licence and link

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

• What is being designed and whether a visual direction already exists
• Where the skill should be installed: this project only, or for every project

Framework: When to Use It

Use it when:

• You are starting a new page or product and no aesthetic direction has been chosen
• Output keeps coming back competent but interchangeable
• You want a committed stance on typography and visual character before code is written

Look elsewhere when:

• A design system already exists and must be followed. Go to stage 2 of the pipeline.
• You need a review of something already built. Use impeccable-pointer or this library's design-critique.
• You need proof that it renders correctly. Use playwright-cli-pointer.

Install

Single skill, using the open skills CLI:

npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design

Alternative, as documented in the upstream README, which installs the whole example set that contains it:

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

Confirm the install: start a new session and check that frontend-design appears in the skill list.

Name Clash to Know About

This library has its own skill called frontend-design in the pm-design bundle. It is a separate, original skill with the same name. If both are installed, say which one you mean. Either can serve the Direction stage.

Output Format

Pointer: frontend-design

1. Fit: use it or not, in one sentence, with the reason
2. Install: the command for the chosen scope
3. Check: how to confirm it is loaded
4. Next: the pipeline stage that follows
5. Credit: author, licence, link

Credit

• Project: frontend-design, part of Anthropic's skills repository
• Author: Anthropic
• Licence: Apache 2.0, stated in the skill's own LICENSE.txt. The repository has no single root licence, and some other skills in it are source-available only.
• Link: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/frontend-design
• Checked: 2026-09-28

Quality Checks

• The install command was given exactly as written above
• The author was credited with a link
• No upstream SKILL.md text was reproduced
• The name clash with this library's own skill was mentioned when relevant
• Only this one design skill was recommended for the Direction stage

Anti-Patterns

• Copying the upstream skill into this library. Point to it, so users get the author's updates.
• Installing it alongside every other design skill and loading them together. Use one per stage.
• Using it to override an existing brand. A direction skill is for when no direction exists.

Example Trigger Phrases

• "How do I install Anthropic's frontend-design skill?"
• "Which skill should set the visual direction for this page?"
• "What handles the direction stage of the design pipeline?"
• "Is frontend-design the right skill for a new landing page?"

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Part of the pm-design-taste bundle in the library at https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.