Design Engine

End-to-end AI design system with 190+ battle-tested styles, AI image generation, and pixel-perfect export. Designs social media posters, carousels, YouTube thumbnails, PDFs, and full websites — entirely from natural language. Includes brand onboarding, self-review quality system, Puppeteer export scripts, and 6 teachable design skills. Built through 300+ real design experiments. Use this skill when the user asks to: design a poster, create social media content, build a carousel, make a YouTube thumbnail, generate a PDF/report, design a website or landing page, create any visual content, or imp

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)
npx skills add rahamanbinujit/claude-design-engine --skill design-engine
Manual install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rahamanbinujit/claude-design-engine.git /tmp/claude-design-engine
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-design-engine/. ~/.claude/skills/design-engine

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Design Engine

> Created by **Rahaman Bin Ujit** — Built through 300+ design experiments.

An end-to-end AI-powered design system. 190+ styles. AI photo generation. Brand consistency. Self-review quality gates. Pixel-perfect export.

## When to Activate

Use this skill when the user wants to:
- Design a social media post (LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter/X)
- Create a carousel (multi-slide PDF or PNGs)
- Design a YouTube thumbnail
- Generate a PDF report or document
- Design a website, landing page, or web UI
- Create any visual content with professional quality
- Improve the design/aesthetics of existing HTML/CSS

## First-Time Setup

If `brand.config.json` does NOT exist, run onboarding:
1. Read `onboarding/setup.md`
2. Ask the user every question listed
3. Save answers to `brand.config.json`

**Never design without a brand config.**

## Design Pipeline

```
Brief → Brand Config → Research → Style Selection → AI Photos → HTML/CSS → Self-Review → Export
```

### Step 1: Understand the Brief
- Platform? Format? Content? Mood?

### Step 2: Load Brand
- Read `brand.config.json` for fonts, colors, identity

### Step 3: Choose a Style
- Browse `styles/INDEX.md` (190+ options with complete CSS)

### Step 4: Research References
- Read `workflows/reference-research.md`
- 40% of design time = studying what works in the niche

### Step 5: Generate Photos (if needed)
- Read `workflows/ai-image-generation.md`
- Use Gemini via nano-banana MCP for photo generation/editing
Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name
design-engine
Repo updated
23 March 2026

FAQ

What does the Design Engine skill do?

End-to-end AI design system with 190+ battle-tested styles, AI image generation, and pixel-perfect export. Designs social media posters, carousels, YouTube thumbnails, PDFs, and full websites — entirely from natural language. Includes brand onboarding, self-review quality system, Puppeteer export scripts, and 6 teachable design skills. Built through 300+ real design experiments. Use this skill when the user asks to: design a poster, create social media content, build a carousel, make a YouTube thumbnail, generate a PDF/report, design a website or landing page, create any visual content, or imp

How do I install the Design Engine skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add rahamanbinujit/claude-design-engine --skill design-engine. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Design Engine popular?

It lives in rahamanbinujit/claude-design-engine, which has 14 GitHub stars and 5 forks.

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