Consistency — internal Agent Skill

Apply internal consistency — making your product coherent with itself across all surfaces, components, and flows.

Context cost
5k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
2 files · 19.8 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
Apache-2.0the author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Apply internal consistency — making your product coherent with itself across all surfaces, components, and flows. Use when designing or auditing component libraries, defining design tokens, settling cross-team naming conventions, planning a design-system rollout, integrating acquired or legacy code, or evaluating whether two features should share or diverge in their interaction model. Internal consistency is enforced through design systems, shared vocabularies, and process discipline; it erodes through hand-off losses, sprint-driven shortcuts, and team boundaries that don''t coordinate.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

design
Filed under

Design & Media

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md11.4 kB · preview
--- name: consistency-internal ---
6# Consistency — internal
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8Internal consistency is the property of a product being coherent with itself. Every screen, every flow, every component looks like it came from the same product, and equivalent operations behave the same way. Users transfer their learning across surfaces because the product rewards them for doing so.
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10Internal consistency is hard to maintain by good intentions alone. Teams ship in parallel, designers move on, design tokens drift, components get forked. The systems that maintain consistency over years are the ones that build it into the production process — design systems with real components, design tokens enforced by code, lint rules that fail builds for off-system colors.
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12## The mechanisms of internal consistency
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14Internal consistency rests on a few mechanisms working together.
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16**A design system with real components.** A library of buttons, inputs, modals, cards, tabs, etc., that is the canonical implementation. Designers compose with it; engineers use it; everyone gets the same behavior because there's only one implementation to use. The design system is not a documentation site full of screenshots — it's actual production components, code, and design tokens that flow through to the product.
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18**Design tokens enforced by code.** Colors, spacings, typographic sizes, border-radii, shadows, animations — all defined as named tokens (color.primary.500, spacing.4, radius.md) and used through those names rather than as raw values. When a designer changes the canonical primary blue, every component that uses color.primary.500 updates automatically. When an engineer hard-codes a custom blue, a lint rule flags it.
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20**A shared vocabulary.** The same concepts have the same names across the product, the documentation, the marketing, and the support content. The "workspace" is always called the "workspace," not sometimes "team" and sometimes "org." The "save" action is always called "save," not sometimes "store" or "submit." Vocabulary drift is one of the easiest consistency violations to ship and one of the hardest to recover from once shipped.
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22**Pattern documentation for non-component decisions.** Some design decisions don't fit neatly into components — when to use a modal vs. an inline form, when to redirect vs. open in a new view, how to handle empty states, how to handle errors. These need pattern documentation so teams making decisions can reach for the same answer.
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24**Reviews and audits.** Design reviews and engineering reviews catch inconsistencies before they ship. Periodic audits across the live product catch the inconsistencies that slipped through. Both require ongoing investment, but the alternative — letting inconsistency accumulate until a major rebuild is needed — is more expensive.
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,689 words
Files2
LicenceApache-2.0
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈160
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
4,790
on trigger
The instruction body and 1 supporting file, read only when the skill fires.
2.5%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 25% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

5k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

2 files, 19.8 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md11.4 kB
  • references/design-system-mechanics.md8.4 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 2 files you can review in full before installing. The Apache-2.0 licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Consistency — internal · 5k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/consistency-internal/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/consistency-internal" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/consistency-internal ] || { mv .claude/skills/consistency-internal "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/consistency-internal" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/consistency-internal"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add hashgraph-online/consistency-internal

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/consistency-internal/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/consistency-internal/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/consistency-internal" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/consistency-internal ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/consistency-internal "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/consistency-internal" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/consistency-internal" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/consistency-internal/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencehashgraph-online/consistency-internal

Versions

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