ibm-consulting-design - SKILL.md Agent Skill

name: ibm-consulting-design description: Use this skill to generate well-branded interfaces and assets for IBM Consulting, either for production or throwaway prototypes/mocks/etc. Contains essential design guidelines, colors, type, fonts, assets, and UI kit components for prototyping. Rooted in IBM's open Carbon Design System and the IBM Plex type family. user-invocable: true

Read the README.md file within this skill first — it contains the brand context, content fundamentals, visual foundations, and iconography guidelines. Then explore:

colors_and_type.css — every design token (colors, type scale, spacing, radii, shadows, motion).
assets/logos/ — official IBM logos (blue, white, black, dark-blue).
assets/icons/ — 7 Carbon line icons pulled from IBM Consulting battlecards.
assets/backgrounds/ — blue gradient washes and the signature white sculptural "IBM" renders.
preview/*.html — token cards and component specimens (Design System tab).
ui_kits/ibm-consulting-web/ — React recreations of IBM Consulting web patterns.
slides/ — 16:9 battlecard, title, and section-header slide templates.

If creating visual artifacts (slides, mocks, throwaway prototypes, marketing pages, decks), copy the needed assets out of this skill into your working project and build static HTML. <link rel="stylesheet" href="colors_and_type.css"> is the fastest way to inherit the full token system.

If working on production code, read the rules in README.md to become an expert in designing with the IBM brand — the canonical implementation is Carbon Design System and the canonical icon library is Carbon Icons. Both are open source and should be installed via @carbon/react + @carbon/icons-react for real production work.

If the user invokes this skill without any other guidance, ask them what they want to build or design (deck? landing page? product UI? battlecard?), ask a few clarifying questions about audience and scope, and act as an expert designer who outputs HTML artifacts — or production React — depending on the need.

Non-negotiables for anything made with this skill:

IBM Plex everywhere. No other typefaces.
Square corners. 0 radius default; 2px max on inputs.
2px inset focus rings in IBM Blue (#0f62fe).
No emoji, no gradients-as-decoration, no rounded cards with colored left borders.
Icons from Carbon only. Never hand-draw SVG iconography.
IBM Blue (#0f62fe) is THE brand color. Accents (purple, teal, magenta) support; never lead.