jrpease

Design System Status — Design skill for Claude Code

Design community

Show a plain-language summary of the current design system state — what's set up, what's not, and sensible next steps — read from design-system.json.

How to install Design System Status

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/jrpease-throughline-design-system-status/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/jrpease-throughline-design-system-status && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jrpease/throughline/HEAD/commands/design-system-status.md -o ~/.claude/skills/jrpease-throughline-design-system-status/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Design System Status does

description: Show a plain-language summary of the current design system state — what's set up, what's not, and sensible next steps — read from design-system.json.

Read `design-system.json` and present a clear, plain-language summary of where the user's design system stands. This is the "where am I?" command — especially valuable for users who don't want to read raw JSON.

Report, in friendly prose (not a JSON dump), scaled to `user.codingLevel`:

Figma: connected? which mechanism?

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