design-tokens
Design Tokens
A project without tokens accumulates twelve grays and five blues nobody chose. This skill bootstraps a minimal token system in one pass for projects that have no design system, then keeps the system from drifting. Icons8 assets are built to drop into it.
Scope
This skill owns creating the token system, its vocabulary, and drift detection. Neighbors own usage: how tokens are applied to surfaces is ui-polish; motion tokens (curves, durations) are defined in motion and only referenced here; state coverage is ux-check.
Two contested lines, settled here: the motion token file is not a parallel palette, it is motion territory and is excluded from the counts below. Radii derived by the concentric rule in ui-polish are arithmetic on tokens (calc(var(--radius-lg) - var(--space-2))) and are not new scale values; the same number typed as a literal is drift.
Skills outside this line can own the same ground. If one is loaded, follow it and add only what it does not cover. One defect, one finding.