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Claude Design System Prompt

106 pointsby handfuloflighttoday at 8:43 AM29 commentsview on HN

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simonwtoday at 12:52 PM

I can't even tell if this repository is based on prompts extracted from Claude Design or if the author had an LLM create all of these prompts in it from scratch.

The fact that they encourage and accept PRs indicates that this isn't intended as a direct prompt extraction exposure project - plus the license, which should indicate they have the authorship necessary to license that content.

Assuming this IS a complete ground-up implementation it really needs to link to demonstrations that it works. Without any evidence it's hard to justify spending time exploring it.

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jdormittoday at 11:36 AM

This would be much more interesting if it detailed how the prompt/skills were reverse-engineered. As it is it seems like this could just be the output from “hey Claude write me a system prompt that works like Claude Design”.

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doginasuittoday at 1:21 PM

I've been using Claude Design to make animated SVGs, and I've learned a thing or two about its limits and how to get around them for that narrow purpose.

One thing I've learned is that you have to ask it to first come up with a robust way to define the geometry and then apply that to an SVG. Without that first step, it just guesses at where everything should be that isn't directly connected with a node, and it is hilariously bad. But with that first step it is capable of creating some incredible geometry algorithmically from detailed instructions.

The other thing is that whatever tool prepares the svg for export will strip the animations as part of a sanitizing process, it won't even see that has occurred. You have to ask it to export to a different file type like my-animation.svg.txt, and then obviously you want to inspect it because svg can carry exploits not related to animation.

Its ability to generate these designs is part toddler with a crayon, part savant. It won't be able to create any quality organic figures without reference material, but its ability to create intricate and mathematically correct design and animate it is promising. I haven't used it extensively so I'd be very interested to hear other observations and advice.

smokeltoday at 12:38 PM

> Open source, MIT licensed.

I don't think that is how copyright licensing works.

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tallesborges92today at 12:56 PM

I trust on this: https://github.com/elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S/blob/main/ANTHROPI...

It’s different than this one shared by the op, but Anthropic maybe updated the prompt

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bobkbtoday at 1:46 PM

How to prove this is indeed the system prompt against a certain timestamp (in the past ) ?

exabrialtoday at 12:28 PM

This is pretty awesome. I’ve wanted to use Claude design, but with my regular MCP servers.

Side note: ironic use of an llm writing the readme.

CartwheelLinuxtoday at 12:36 PM

I'm calling BS, sorry. It looks light, and barely anything beyond surface level of what we could all could guess would be in a system prompt. This smells nothing more of a "claude give a system prompt that anthropic would use as a system prompt for claude"

From what we know, there are some very specific details baked into the prompt as safety guards, where are those? Again calling BS and I'm not gonna waste more thought/words on this

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