tailwind-design-system
Build Tailwind design systems
Design systems often drift without clear tokens and patterns. This skill provides Tailwind structures to standardize components, themes, and responsive layouts across your codebase.
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Using "tailwind-design-system". Set up a Tailwind design system with tokens and a button pattern
Expected outcome:
- Defined semantic color tokens and radius variables for light and dark themes
- Outlined a CVA button with variants, sizes, and focus ring behavior
- Included accessibility notes for keyboard navigation and error states
Using "tailwind-design-system". Create a dark mode implementation for a React app
Expected outcome:
- Provided ThemeProvider using CSS variables and localStorage
- Showed theme toggle component with icon switching
- Included system preference detection with matchMedia
Using "tailwind-design-system". Build accessible form components with error states
Expected outcome:
- Created Input component with aria-invalid and error messaging
- Added Label component with proper htmlFor association
- Included focus ring utilities for keyboard navigation
Security Audit
SafePure documentation skill with no executable code. Contains only markdown guidance and code examples for Tailwind CSS design systems. The static analyzer's 100/100 risk score is a false positive caused by misinterpreting Tailwind CSS opacity syntax (e.g., bg-primary/90) as cryptographic algorithms, and TypeScript template literals as shell backticks. The skill-report.json already contains a completed security audit confirming this skill is safe.
Risk Factors
🌐 Network access (5)
⚙️ External commands (25)
Quality Score
What You Can Build
Standardize team components
Create shared Tailwind tokens and base components to align multiple product teams.
Build token architecture
Map brand colors to semantic tokens and wire them to Tailwind theme configuration.
Ship responsive layouts
Use grid and container patterns to scale layouts consistently across breakpoints.
Try These Prompts
Create a Tailwind token setup with semantic colors and radius variables for light and dark themes.
Design CVA button variants with sizes, states, and accessibility notes for a shared component library.
Provide input and label component patterns with error handling and ARIA guidance.
Define a responsive grid and container utility pattern for product cards across breakpoints.
Best Practices
- Use semantic tokens and map them to CSS variables for runtime theming
- Document component variants and default states clearly for team consumption
- Test focus states and keyboard navigation on all interactive components
Avoid
- Hardcoding brand colors directly in component classes instead of using tokens
- Skipping dark mode token definitions and testing
- Using arbitrary values like bg-[#123456] instead of extending the theme