Customizing Skills Files for Our Design System Workflow

14 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker explains how they leverage the skills.sh repository as a convenient hub for browsing and downloading skills files. They discovered a comprehensive community‑created design‑system patterns file that covered many platforms, but they needed a version tailored to their web‑desktop stack. Using Claude, they heavily modified the original file to embed context specific to their design system, including how they use Token Studio and treating JSON files as the source of truth. They also created a separate, Token‑Studio‑focused skills file that branches from the main one, ensuring specialized knowledge is captured and easily reusable.

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skills.sh. It's an aggregate of multiple sources, but it's an excellent place to just browse, download a skills file, try it out. So we tried some there. One that really stuck out to me was one that someone had made for design system patterns, and that was just like a very large overall one that even covers mobile, etc., but we're just web desktop platform. So essentially what I did was start with that. I talked to Claude quite a lot and just heavily modified it for our own purposes and tech stack, and it proved super helpful. And now it has all that context around our design system, how we use Token Studio, even context of the JSON as sort of some source of truth. And then we have a specific one I made that sort of branched off that just for Token Studio knowledge as well.