Apply Aesthetic

When someone asks you to make their interface feel like Linear or Stripe or just "more premium," this resolves those aesthetics into actual design tokens without guessing. You pick from five archetypes (brutalist, soft-SaaS, dark-tech, etc.) or 138 named design systems, and it maps the colors, typography, spacing, shadows, and motion into your token system while enforcing contrast checks at every step. The brief inference requirement up front is smart: it forces you to name the mood and audience before generating anything, which keeps the output from drifting into generic territory. It's opinionated about accessibility. You can't apply a brand aesthetic that fails WCAG, which is the right call but means you'll sometimes need to adjust aspirational references to meet contrast ratios.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill apply-aesthetic --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Skill: Apply Aesthetic

Requirements

This skill needs the full UX/UI Agent Skills kit: the gates, the references and the design-system library. Install it with npx ux-ui-agent-skills@3.1.0 init or as the Claude Code plugin. npx skills@1.7.6 add copies the skill folder and nothing else. Installed that way, this skill runs in guidance-only mode: no gate runs, so it gives no verdict.

Step 0: is the kit here? Check once: ls ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo KIT_OK || echo KIT_MISSING On KIT_MISSING, open your reply with: "Guidance-only mode: the UX/UI Agent Skills kit is not installed here, so no gate ran and nothing below is measured." Then work from this file and general practice, under three rules. Do not guess or cite the contents of a kit file you could not open. State no measured number (no contrast ratio, no N/N, no "passes WCAG"): write "not verified" where one would go. End with a line Skipped (kit not installed): that names every gate script this file tells you to run, then the install command above.

Choose and apply a design direction without breaking accessibility.

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