{"slug":"design-token-governance-review","title":"design-token-governance-review","summary":"Reviews design-token source of truth and build pipelines for hardcoded-value drift and resolved WCAG 1.4.3/1.4.11 contrast compliance across theme variants (light, dark, high-contrast), grounded in the W3C Design Tokens format and current WCAG success criteria.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:52:11.923658Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: design-token-governance-review\ndescription: Reviews design-token source of truth and build pipelines for hardcoded-value drift and resolved WCAG 1.4.3/1.4.11 contrast compliance across theme variants (light, dark, high-contrast), grounded in the W3C Design Tokens format and current WCAG success criteria.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob\nmetadata:\nauthor: \"github: VincentChuWaiChow\"\nversion: \"0.1.0\"\nupdated: \"2026-07-02\"\ncategory: compliance</h2>\n<h1>Design Token Governance Review</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>A token system only delivers its promise (consistent, themeable, accessible UI) if it is actually the single source of truth. This skill catches the two most common failure modes: hardcoded values that duplicate an existing token (silent drift) and token pairings that resolve to an inaccessible contrast ratio in some theme variant that nobody re-checked after the token value changed.</p>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when the user asks to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>review a design-token source file or build/transform pipeline (Style Dictionary, Tokens Studio, W3C DTCG format),</li>\n<li>audit whether hardcoded colors/spacing values have crept back into components,</li>\n<li>verify WCAG 1.4.3 (text contrast) or 1.4.11 (non-text/UI-component contrast) compliance for token pairings,</li>\n<li>review a proposed rebrand, dark-mode, or high-contrast-mode token change for contrast regressions.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Context7 Documentation Protocol</h2>\n<p>Before making any claim about token-file format, <code>$value</code>/<code>$type</code> semantics, reference resolution, transform behavior, or Storybook a11y tooling, ground the claim in current library docs:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Call <code>mcp__Context7__resolve-library-id</code> for the library in scope (<code>Style Dictionary</code>, <code>Storybook</code>) if not already resolved in this session.</li>\n<li>Call <code>mcp__Context7__query-docs</code> with a specific query before asserting version-specific behavior (transform config shape, DTCG <code>$type</code> inheritance rules, a11y-addon detection coverage, etc.).</li>\n<li>Verified library IDs for this skill's scope: Style Dictionary <code>/style-dictionary/style-dictionary</code> (DTCG format, <code>$value</code>/<code>$type</code>, <code>resolveReferences</code>/<code>getReferences</code>, <code>typeDtcgDelegate</code> for <code>$type</code> inheritance); Storybook <code>/storybookjs/storybook</code> (<code>@storybook/addon-a11y</code>, built on axe-core, documented as catching up to ~57% of WCAG issues automatically — never represent an addon-a11y pass as full conformance).</li>\n<li>If Context7 has no coverage for a claim, fall back to the W3C Design Tokens Community Group spec (<code>https://tr.designtokens.org/format/</code>) or WCAG 2.1 normative text, and mark the claim <code>documentation-based</code> rather than <code>verified</code>.</li>\n<li>Never invent a transform name, CLI flag, or token property that was not confirmed via Context7 or the W3C spec.</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Lean operating rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Always compute the resolved contrast ratio from the actual token values in scope; a token's semantic name (<code>--color-text-secondary</code>) does not guarantee its computed contrast is compliant.</li>\n<li>Check every theme variant (light, dark, high-contrast) independently; a token pairing compliant in light mode can fail in dark mode with no code-level warning.</li>\n<li>Distinguish a documented, intentional design-system escape hatch (a one-off spacing value explicitly allowed by governance docs) from undocumented drift; only the latter is a finding.</li>\n<li>Apply WCAG 1.4.3 (4.5:1 normal text / 3:1 large text) to text-on-background token pairings and WCAG 1.4.11 (3:1) to UI-component and graphical-object contrast (borders, focus indicators, icons) — these are different success criteria with different thresholds; do not conflate them.</li>\n<li>In DTCG-format token files, resolve <code>{group.token}</code> references and <code>$type</code> group-level inheritance before evaluating a value — a token's effective type/value can come from an ancestor group, not the token's own object.</li>\n<li>Require that generated token build output (CSS custom properties, JS token modules) be committed with a reviewable diff against source tokens, not silently regenerated; a build-only change with no source-token diff is itself a governance finding.</li>\n<li>Treat a Storybook <code>@storybook/addon-a11y</code> pass as partial automated evidence only (axe-core-class coverage, not full conformance); it does not substitute for manually verifying contrast math on token pairings the user is asking about.</li>\n<li>Load the <code>visual-regression-storybook-review</code> skill instead of this one when the question is about pixel-diff baseline approval rather than token source/contrast math.</li>\n<li>This is a static-review skill: read and analyze token source files, build configs, and resolved output; do not run builds, mutate token files, or execute pipeline commands.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<p>Load these only when needed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"references/token-source-and-pipeline-review.md\">Token source and pipeline review</a> — use when reviewing DTCG/Style Dictionary token structure, reference resolution, <code>$type</code> inheritance, transform/build config, or hunting for hardcoded-value drift against an existing token set.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/contrast-compliance-review.md\">Contrast compliance review</a> — use when computing or verifying resolved contrast ratios for token pairings against WCAG 1.4.3/1.4.11 across theme variants.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Response minimum</h2>\n<p>Return, at minimum:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>inventory of hardcoded-value findings with file/line and the matching existing token,</li>\n<li>computed contrast ratio per token pairing reviewed, per theme variant, with WCAG pass/fail against the correct success criterion (1.4.3 vs 1.4.11),</li>\n<li>evidence level (computed from provided token values vs inferred, and Context7-grounded vs documentation-based),</li>\n<li>recommended governance mechanism (lint rule/CI check) to prevent recurrence,</li>\n<li>security caveat if the token pipeline pulls from an external API.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":1089,"isText":true},{"path":"references/contrast-compliance-review.md","sizeBytes":8314,"isText":true},{"path":"references/token-source-and-pipeline-review.md","sizeBytes":8371,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":5672,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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