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name: design-consultation description: | Build a complete design system from scratch. Garry Tan's design consultation skill: systematic approach to establishing visual language, component library, spacing scale, and design tokens from first principles. triggers:

• "design consultation"
• "design system from scratch"
• "build design system"
• "design language"
• "visual language" das: category: design-review upstream: "https://github.com/garrytan/gstack" upstream_path: "design-consultation/SKILL.md" version: latest install: true

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design-consultation

Catalogue stub — full skill: garrytan/gstack

Decision tree

1. Is the full skill already installed? Check whether the skill at this location still has a das: block:

   • Global: grep -q "^das:" ~/.agents/skills/design-consultation/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null && echo "pointer" || echo "installed"
   • Project: grep -q "^das:" .agents/skills/design-consultation/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null && echo "pointer" || echo "installed"
   • No das: block → full skill installed, invoke it and proceed
   • das: block present → go to step 2

2. Detect scope, then install:

   To detect scope:

   [ -e ~/.agents/skills/design-consultation ] && echo "global" || echo "project"
   

   Global (installed with -g):

   npx skills add garrytan/gstack --skill design-consultation -g -y
   

   Project (installed without -g):

   npx skills add garrytan/gstack --skill design-consultation -y
   

   Claude Code: send either command as a chat message starting with ! to run it without leaving the conversation.

Invoke after install

• Skill name: design-consultation
• Trigger phrases: "design consultation", "design system from scratch", "build design system"

What it does

Garry Tan's (Y Combinator president) approach to building a complete design system from scratch. Establishes visual language, spacing scale, typography system, color tokens, and component library through a structured consultation process. Opinionated, systematic, and practical for early-stage products.