/design
A Claude Code slash command, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Skill. Draft UI mockups, screen flows, landing pages, or posters as artboards on one canvas, published as a Claude Design artifact, for example /design a settings screen for a mobile banking app. You edit the artboards in a desktop browser, and your edits save automatically. You can export each artboard as PNG or PDF. Requires Claude Code v2.1.265 or later, a session where artifacts are available, and an account where the Design template is available; if your organization has turned that template off, /design doesn't draft designs. Available on the Anthropic API. On Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud's Agent Platform, Microsoft Foundry, and Claude Platform on AWS, artifacts aren't available, so the command is unavailable there
Anthropic's own wording. Read off Commands, captured 2026-09-28.
In the changelogs
20Releases whose published page names /design.
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v2.1.302
Notice that standalone Claude Design closes by December 14, 2026
Claude Code now tells you standalone Claude Design at claude.ai/design closes by December 14, 2026, and that Claude Design now lives in Claude
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v2.1.302
/design consent and revoke failures in cloud sessions point to claude.ai settings
When
/designconsent or revoke fails in a cloud session, the error now sends you to claude.ai/design/settings instead of/design-loginfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.284
/designdrops its design canvas mode, and Claude can no longer run it on its own/designno longer has a canvas mode, and Claude can no longer start the command by itselffound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.284
Dashboard artifact template and the
/designcanvas option are goneThe dashboard artifact template and the canvas option of
/designhave been removed; report, data-table and explainer templates remainfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.280
Design tool auth failures now redirect to design login instead of a generic error
Design tool login failures now trigger a specific redirect to /design login instead of a generic error
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v2.1.265
New /design and /slides commands to create artifacts from published types
New /design and /slides commands generate Design and Slides artifacts from a brief
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v2.1.265
Possible removal of the 'design' local command (uncertain, likely diff artifact)
A code diff hints the 'design' slash command may have been removed, but this is uncertain
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v2.1.265
/design command reworked into four routed modes (types, canvas, hub, consent)
/design command's internal dispatch rewritten into four routed modes
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v2.1.265
/design command splits preview-and-hub features from local-agent sessions
/design now disables preview/hub features (import, export, status, canvas skill) in local-agent sessions
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v2.1.251
/design can be turned off by your organization
Your organization can now disable /design entirely through managed settings.
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v2.1.248
Claude Design explains a rejected credential
If your credential lacks Claude Design access, you're told to run /design login.
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v2.1.247
Design login errors explain how headless runs inherit authorization
Design errors now explain that logging in once interactively lets headless and SDK runs reuse it.
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v2.1.247
A Design credential missing the right scopes now says so
A Design credential lacking permissions now says so and tells you to run /design login.
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v2.1.238
A
/designcommand that drafts a design on a canvas artifactA /design command that drafts a design on a canvas artifact now registers by default, if your account allows it.
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v2.1.238
The
/designskill prompt was rewritten and its page seeder gained warningsThe /design skill got stricter rules and now demands a path, a description and a favicon emoji.
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v2.1.236
A startup tip pointing at /design for UI work
A startup tip pointing at a
/designcommand for mocking up UI is present but nobody sees it.named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.229
New /design skill drafts multi-artboard canvases as an Artifact, gated off
A /design skill drafting multi-artboard canvases as editable Artifacts is bundled but switched off.
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v2.1.199
Claude Design Integration [Gradual Rollout]
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v2.1.181
/designCommand — Claude Design Hubfound in this entry's text
First cited
2The earliest release whose published evidence quoted /design was v2.1.248, 27 Aug 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the slash command does. All slash commands.