Agent skill

Component Design With Tdad

by Habitat-Thinking in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers

A skill your agent uses when designing a new plugin component (skill, agent, command, or backing script) for the ai-literacy-superpowers plugin or a sister plugin in this marketplace.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Component Design With Tdad

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill component-design-with-tdad -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers component-design-with-tdad --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/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/component-design-with-tdad .claude/skills/component-design-with-tdad && 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/

Facts

Skill name
component-design-with-tdad
GitHub stars
114
Token cost
~3.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,490 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
42
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when designing a new plugin component (skill, agent, command, or backing script) for the ai-literacy-superpowers plugin or a sister plugin in this marketplace.

  • Works in 5 steps: What component type is this? → Which TDAD layers does this component… → What does the scenario's Then clause… → …
  • Designing a new plugin component (skill
  • SKILL.md covers Before reading this skill, When to invoke, The five design questions and Output of a TDAD-aware design…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Component Design With Tdad is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers. Use when designing a new plugin component (skill, agent, command, or backing script) for the ai-literacy-superpowers plugin or a sister plugin in this marketplace. Surfaces the design questions that the four-layer TDAD architecture implies — component type, tier targeting, scenario shape, FINDING-vs-scenario judgement, modification-vs-refactor heuristic. Loadable by spec-writer, tdd-agent, or directly during human brainstorming. Not a gate; a methodology guide that names the questions to ask before authoring.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.3k 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 Agent Workflows, covering Brainstorming and Test-driven development. The repository describes itself as: A set of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot plugins providing the AI Literacy framework's complete development workflow — harness engineering, agent orchestration, literate….

When your agent uses it

  • Designing a new plugin component (skill
  • Backing script) for the ai-literacy-superpowers plugin
  • A sister plugin in this marketplace

Example prompts

  • “/component-design-with-tdad”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. What component type is this?
  2. Which TDAD layers does this component warrant?
  3. What does the scenario's Then clause look like?
  4. New file or modification of an existing component?
  5. Scenario or finding?

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9d35995. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    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 markdown).

    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

Component Design With Tdad loads about 3.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 135 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,490 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~135
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.3k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,490 words (~3,329 tokens).

“When designing a new plugin component — a skill, an agent, a command, or a backing script — the four-layer TDAD architecture has implications for the component's shape that are easy to miss if the design is done before the…”

— opening of SKILL.md by Habitat-Thinking, Custom licence
name
component-design-with-tdad

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/component-design-with-tdad of Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9d35995

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Ca FeaturearbiterForge/codeArbiter147—~2.2kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0

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Questions about Component Design With Tdad

What does Component Design With Tdad do?

A skill your agent uses when designing a new plugin component (skill, agent, command, or backing script) for the ai-literacy-superpowers plugin or a sister plugin in this marketplace. Component Design With Tdad is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers. Use when designing a new plugin component (skill, agent, command, or backing script) for the ai-literacy-superpowers plugin or a sister plugin in this marketplace.

When should I use Component Design With Tdad?

Component Design With Tdad fits situations like: designing a new plugin component (skill; backing script) for the ai-literacy-superpowers plugin; A sister plugin in this marketplace.

How do I install Component Design With Tdad in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill component-design-with-tdad -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/component-design-with-tdad in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .claude/skills/component-design-with-tdad in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Component Design With Tdad in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill component-design-with-tdad -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/component-design-with-tdad in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .agents/skills/component-design-with-tdad in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Component Design With Tdad 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 Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill component-design-with-tdad -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/component-design-with-tdad, .gemini/skills/component-design-with-tdad, .github/skills/component-design-with-tdad and .opencode/skills/component-design-with-tdad in your project.

What does Component Design With Tdad need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Component Design With Tdad is instructions for the agent only.

Does Component Design With Tdad 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 Component Design With Tdad 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 Component Design With Tdad use?

Component Design With Tdad has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Component Design With Tdad use?

About 3.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 13k 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 Component Design With Tdad?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Component Design With Tdad: Context Modes (0xNyk/lacp, 305 stars), Work Issue (joesaby/astro-mermaid, 123 stars), Brainstorming (xpinjection/test-driven-spring-boot, 112 stars) and Superpowers Feature Workflow (SYZ-Coder/superpowers-openspec-team-skills, 196 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Component Design With Tdad?

Habitat-Thinking (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers, which has 114 GitHub stars. The repository holds 42 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 20, 2026.

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