Component Spec

by Owl-Listener

Component Spec is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by Owl-Listener in designer-skills.

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Install Component Spec

Copy Component Spec into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-systems/skills/component-spec ~/.claude/skills/component-spec

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: design-systems/skills/component-spec/SKILL.md in Owl-Listener/designer-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/component-spec
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Frontend — 567 skills

What Component Spec does

Component Spec specifies one component's props, states, variants, accessibility, and usage rules. Use when defining a library component.

Component Spec is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. Component Spec comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-ai, ai, ai-tools and claude-code.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Overview — Name, description, when to use / not use
Anatomy — Visual breakdown, required vs optional elements
Variants — Size (sm/md/lg), style (primary/secondary/ghost), layout
Props/API — Name, type, default, description, required status
States — Default, hover, focus, active, disabled, loading, error
Behavior — Interactions, animations, responsive behavior, edge cases
Accessibility — ARIA roles, keyboard nav, screen reader, focus management
Usage Guidelines — Do/don't examples, content rules, related components

Best Practices

Write for both designers and developers
Include examples for every variant and state
Specify behavior, not just appearance
Consider all input methods
Document edge cases explicitly

Frequently asked about Component Spec

What else does Owl-Listener publish alongside Component Spec?
Component Spec is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Owl-Listener/designer-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Accessibility Audit, Affinity Diagram and Card Sort Analysis. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Component Spec does, and is maintained by Owl-Listener in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Owl-Listener/designer-skills page.
How does Component Spec compare to other Frontend skills?
Component Spec ranks #236 by stars among the 567 Frontend skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Angular Developer, Android Clean Architecture and Accessibility. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Component Spec against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.