Agent skill

Kanban System Designer

Pull-based production control system design skill with WIP limits, replenishment triggers, and visual management boards

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Kanban System Designer

skills CLI

$ npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill kanban-system-designer -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install a5c-ai/babysitter kanban-system-designer --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer .claude/skills/kanban-system-designer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "kanban-system-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/tree/main/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer into .claude/skills/kanban-system-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "kanban-system-designer", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/tree/main/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill kanban-system-designer -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install a5c-ai/babysitter kanban-system-designer --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer .agents/skills/kanban-system-designer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "kanban-system-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/tree/main/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer into .agents/skills/kanban-system-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "kanban-system-designer", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill kanban-system-designer -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install a5c-ai/babysitter kanban-system-designer --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer .cursor/skills/kanban-system-designer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "kanban-system-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/tree/main/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer into .cursor/skills/kanban-system-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "kanban-system-designer", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter.git --path library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill kanban-system-designer -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install a5c-ai/babysitter kanban-system-designer --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer .gemini/skills/kanban-system-designer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "kanban-system-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/tree/main/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer into .gemini/skills/kanban-system-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "kanban-system-designer", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install a5c-ai/babysitter kanban-system-designer

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill kanban-system-designer -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer .github/skills/kanban-system-designer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "kanban-system-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/tree/main/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer into .github/skills/kanban-system-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "kanban-system-designer", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill kanban-system-designer -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install a5c-ai/babysitter kanban-system-designer --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer .opencode/skills/kanban-system-designer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "kanban-system-designer" agent skill from https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/tree/main/library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer into .opencode/skills/kanban-system-designer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "kanban-system-designer", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: kanban-system-designer
GitHub stars: 1.8k
Token cost: ~671 tokens
SKILL.md length: 157 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 14
Repo updated: Sep 16, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Pull-based production control system design skill with WIP limits, replenishment triggers, and visual management boards

Works in 6 steps: Analyze Demand - Review historical… → Calculate Kanban - Determine number of… → Design Signals - Create visual or… → …
Tasks that involve Task management
SKILL.md covers Overview, Capabilities, Used By Processes and Tools and Libraries, plus 4 more sections
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Kanban System Designer is an agent skill from a5c-ai/babysitter. Pull-based production control system design skill with WIP limits, replenishment triggers, and visual management boards

Its SKILL.md is about 670 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Task management. The repository describes itself as: Babysitter enforces obedience on agentic workforces and enables them to manage extremely complex tasks and workflows through deterministic, hallucination-free self-orchestration. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

Tasks that involve Task management

Example prompts

“/kanban-system-designer”

Requirements

Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Glob, Grep, Edit

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Analyze Demand - Review historical demand patterns and variability
Calculate Kanban - Determine number of kanbans needed
Design Signals - Create visual or electronic signal mechanisms
Set WIP Limits - Establish limits for each process step
Configure Supermarkets - Design inventory storage points
Implement and Tune - Deploy system and adjust parameters

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit feb68ab. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:
- Read
- Write
- Glob
- Grep
- Edit
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are yaml).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Kanban System Designer loads about 671 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 36 tokens; SKILL.md has 157 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~36
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~671

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from a5c-ai/babysitter at commit feb68ab, republished under its MIT licence (© a5c-ai). 157 words, ~671 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/kanban-system-designer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: kanban-system-designer
description: Pull-based production control system design skill with WIP limits, replenishment triggers, and visual management boards
allowed-tools: Read, Write, Glob, Grep, Edit
metadata.specialization: operations
metadata.domain: business
metadata.category: lean-operations
graph.domains: domain:operations
graph.skillAreas: skill-area:change-management, skill-area:capacity-planning-ops, skill-area:data-analytics
graph.workflows: workflow:vendor-onboarding, workflow:vendor-evaluation
graph.roles: role:operations-analyst, role:business-analyst, role:scrum-master

Kanban System Designer

Overview

The Kanban System Designer skill provides comprehensive capabilities for designing and implementing pull-based production control systems. It supports kanban sizing, WIP limit determination, supermarket design, and electronic kanban configuration for efficient material flow.

Capabilities

Kanban sizing calculation
WIP limit determination
Supermarket design
Signal mechanism configuration
Pull system simulation
Heijunka box design
Electronic kanban (e-kanban) configuration

Used By Processes

LEAN-004: Kanban System Design
TOC-002: Drum-Buffer-Rope Scheduling
CAP-002: Production Scheduling Optimization

Tools and Libraries

Kanban software APIs
Inventory management systems
Simulation tools
Visual board platforms

Usage

yaml

skill: kanban-system-designer
inputs:
  product_family: "Widget Assembly"
  demand_data:
    average_daily: 500
    peak_daily: 750
    variability: "medium"
  lead_time_data:
    replenishment_time: "4 hours"
    safety_factor: 1.5
  container_size: 50
outputs:
  - kanban_quantity_calculation
  - supermarket_layout
  - signal_card_design
  - wip_limits
  - implementation_plan

Workflow

Analyze Demand - Review historical demand patterns and variability
Calculate Kanban - Determine number of kanbans needed
Design Signals - Create visual or electronic signal mechanisms
Set WIP Limits - Establish limits for each process step
Configure Supermarkets - Design inventory storage points
Implement and Tune - Deploy system and adjust parameters

Kanban Calculation Formula

Number of Kanbans = (Daily Demand x Lead Time x Safety Factor) / Container Size

Where:
- Daily Demand = Average units consumed per day
- Lead Time = Time to replenish (in days)
- Safety Factor = Buffer for variability (typically 1.0-2.0)
- Container Size = Units per kanban container

Integration Points

ERP/MRP systems
Manufacturing Execution Systems
Inventory management platforms
Visual management displays

Files

Just SKILL.md in library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer of a5c-ai/babysitter.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit feb68ab

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Questions about Kanban System Designer

What does Kanban System Designer do?

Pull-based production control system design skill with WIP limits, replenishment triggers, and visual management boards. Kanban System Designer is an agent skill from a5c-ai/babysitter.

When should I use Kanban System Designer?

Kanban System Designer fits situations like: tasks that involve Task management.

How do I install Kanban System Designer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill kanban-system-designer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer in a5c-ai/babysitter) into .claude/skills/kanban-system-designer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Kanban System Designer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill kanban-system-designer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (library/specializations/domains/business/operations/skills/kanban-system-designer in a5c-ai/babysitter) into .agents/skills/kanban-system-designer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Kanban System Designer in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill kanban-system-designer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/kanban-system-designer, .gemini/skills/kanban-system-designer, .github/skills/kanban-system-designer and .opencode/skills/kanban-system-designer in your project.

What does Kanban System Designer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Kanban System Designer is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Write, Glob, Grep, Edit.

Does Kanban System Designer access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Kanban System Designer safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Kanban System Designer use?

Kanban System Designer is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Kanban System Designer use?

About 671 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Kanban System Designer?

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Who maintains Kanban System Designer?

a5c-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in a5c-ai/babysitter, which has 1,839 GitHub stars. The repository holds 14 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 16, 2026.

Source: a5c-ai/babysitter on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Kanban System Designer

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Kanban System Designer

Overview

Capabilities

Used By Processes

Tools and Libraries

Usage

Workflow

Kanban Calculation Formula

Integration Points

Files

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