About design-system-governance
design-system-governance is a skill for teams setting policies around design-system ownership, contributions, releases, and component quality. It outlines governance models and processes, including semver and deprecation guidance.
Key features
- 01Ownership model trade-offs
- 02Contribution lifecycle
- 03Semver consumer contract
- 04Deprecation and migration guidance
- 05Component quality criteria
Use cases
- 01Choose a design-system ownership model
- 02Define component contribution and review steps
- 03Plan versioning and component deprecation
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ podo/ design-agent-skills --skill design-system-governanceAfter installing, type/design-system-governancein Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesstub.yaml
Details
From the project READMEdesign-system-governance
Catalogue stub — full skill: Owl-Listener/designer-skills
Decision tree
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Is the full skill already installed?
- Global:
f=~/.agents/skills/design-system-governance/SKILL.md; [ -f "$f" ] && ! grep -q "^das:" "$f" && echo "installed" || echo "pointer" - Project:
f=.agents/skills/design-system-governance/SKILL.md; [ -f "$f" ] && ! grep -q "^das:" "$f" && echo "installed" || echo "pointer" installed→ the skill is installed asdesign-system-governance, invoke it and proceedpointer→ go to step 2
- Global:
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Detect scope, then install:
[ -e ~/.agents/skills/design-system-governance ] && echo "global" || echo "project"Global:
npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-system-governance -g -yProject:
npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-system-governance -yClaude Code: send a command as a chat message starting with
!to run it without leaving the conversation.
Claude Code plugin route:
/plugin marketplace add Owl-Listener/designer-skills
/plugin install design-systems@designer-skills
Heads-up
- License: MIT
Invoke after install
- Skill name:
design-system-governance - Trigger phrases: "design system governance", "design system contribution model", "component versioning policy", "design system deprecation"
What it does
The Owl-Listener design-system-governance skill: the three ownership models (centralized / federated / hybrid) with trade-offs, the contribution lifecycle (request → triage → design → review → build → release → communicate), semver as a consumer contract, a deprecation process with migration guidance, and the quality bar a component must clear to enter the system.
When NOT to use
- Authoring tokens themselves → use
design-tokens-skill - Driving adoption of an existing system → use
design-system-adoption(a separate skill in the same Owl-Listener repository; this stub does not install it)