Agent skill

Template Designer

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Turn a document the team keeps rewriting into a template that actually helps — extract the recurring skeleton, mark what varies with real placeholder prompts, keep it lighter than the ceremony it…

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Install Template Designer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill template-designer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills template-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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/template-designer .claude/skills/template-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/

Facts

Skill name
template-designer
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
687 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Turn a document the team keeps rewriting into a template that actually helps — extract the recurring skeleton, mark what varies with real placeholder prompts, keep it lighter than the ceremony it…

  • Works in 5 steps: Extract from the recurrences: lay the… → Placeholders prompt, labels don't: every… → Lighter than the ceremony it replaces:… → …
  • Asked make a template from this doc
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: The Design Rules and Output Format, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Template Designer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Turn a document the team keeps rewriting into a template that actually helps — extract the recurring skeleton, mark what varies with real placeholder prompts, keep it lighter than the ceremony it replaces, and pilot it before decreeing it. Use when asked make a template from this doc, we write this same thing every week, standardize our status updates or briefs, or why does nobody use our templates. Produces the extracted template with prompting placeholders, the keep-it-light rules, the example-filled twin, and…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked make a template from this doc
  • We write this same thing every week
  • Standardize our status updates
  • Why does nobody use our templates

Example prompts

  • “/template-designer”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Extract from the recurrences: lay the past instances side by side — sections appearing in all of them with real content are the skeleton…
  2. Placeholders prompt, labels don't: every placeholder is a question or instruction that produces the right content from a rushed author…
  3. Lighter than the ceremony it replaces: the template's fill-time must undercut freeform drafting or adoption is irrational — target: fewer…
  4. The filled twin is mandatory: a complete, realistic example lives beside the blank — authors pattern-match from examples far better than…
  5. Pilot, revise, then propose: the next real instance uses the draft template; every friction point (a section that didn't fit, a prompt…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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.

    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

Template Designer loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 139 tokens; SKILL.md has 687 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~139
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 687 words, ~1,373 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/template-designer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
template-designer
description
Turn a document the team keeps rewriting into a template that actually helps — extract the recurring skeleton, mark what varies with real placeholder prompts, keep it lighter than the ceremony it replaces, and pilot it before decreeing it. Use when asked make a template from this doc, we write this same thing every week, standardize our status updates or briefs, or why does nobody use our templates. Produces the extracted template with prompting placeholders, the keep-it-light rules, the example-filled twin, and the adoption path.

Template Designer Skill

Templates fail in two familiar ways: the empty-headings ghost (## Background — helpfully blank) that guides nobody, and the forty-field bureaucratic form that takes longer than freeform writing did. A working template is extracted from documents the team already writes repeatedly, keeps only the sections that recur with purpose, and — the difference-maker — its placeholders are prompts ("One sentence: what changed since last update, and does the date still hold?") rather than labels ("Update:"). It ships with a filled example, because the example teaches what the skeleton can't.

What This Skill Produces

  • The template — the recurring skeleton with prompting placeholders, each section justified by recurrence
  • The filled twin — a realistic example completed end-to-end; templates travel in pairs or don't travel
  • The light-ness audit — what was deliberately left out, and the freeform escape-hatch section
  • The adoption path — pilot with the next real instance, revise from friction, then propose as default (not decree)

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The recurring documents — 3+ past instances of the thing being templated; extraction needs a pattern, and one document is an anecdote
  • The reader's use — what the reader does with this document (skim for risk? approve? file?) — sections serve the reader's recurring needs, not the writer's completeness
  • The pain being fixed — inconsistency between authors? Missing sections discovered late? Slow drafting? The template optimizes for its actual complaint
  • The mandate reality — can this be piloted, or is someone demanding a decree? (Piloted templates survive; decreed ones get malicious compliance)

Framework: The Design Rules

  1. Extract from the recurrences: lay the past instances side by side — sections appearing in all of them with real content are the skeleton; sections appearing once are not; sections appearing empty-or-boilerplate in all ("Risks: none") get interrogated, not inherited. The template is the pattern, cleaned.
  2. Placeholders prompt, labels don't: every placeholder is a question or instruction that produces the right content from a rushed author — "[The one decision you need from readers, as a question]" beats "[Decision]". The prompts carry the institutional knowledge of what good looks like; this is 60% of the template's value.
  3. Lighter than the ceremony it replaces: the template's fill-time must undercut freeform drafting or adoption is irrational — target: fewer sections than the worst past instance, plus one ## Anything else escape hatch (its absence is why people abandon templates the first time reality doesn't fit the boxes).
  4. The filled twin is mandatory: a complete, realistic example lives beside the blank — authors pattern-match from examples far better than they interpret skeletons, and the example settles length questions ("oh, three bullets, not three paragraphs") that prompts can't.
  5. Pilot, revise, then propose: the next real instance uses the draft template; every friction point (a section that didn't fit, a prompt that confused) revises it; then it's proposed as the default with the pilot as evidence. Templates decreed before contact with reality collect workarounds instead of documents.
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Output Format

Template: [document type] — replaces [the freeform ritual]

The Template

[The skeleton: sections with prompting placeholders · the escape hatch · fill-time target stated]

The Filled Twin

[A realistic complete example — the length-and-tone teacher]

The Light-ness Audit

[Cut from the pattern: X (appeared once), Y (always boilerplate) · kept: each section's recurrence + reader-use justification]

Adoption Path

[Pilot on the next real one → friction revisions → propose-with-evidence · the owner who maintains it]

Quality Checks

  • Every section survived the recurrence test across past instances
  • Every placeholder is a prompt that would guide a rushed author
  • Fill-time beats the freeform baseline; the escape hatch exists
  • The filled twin ships with the blank
  • The path is pilot-then-propose, with a named maintainer

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not template from imagination — three real instances or it's speculation with headings
  • Do not ship label-placeholders — "[Background]" teaches nothing; the prompt is the product
  • Do not exceed the ceremony being replaced — heavier-than-freeform templates are adopted at gunpoint only
  • Do not omit the escape hatch — the first non-fitting reality kills rigid templates
  • Do not decree v1 — pilot friction is cheap; organizational resentment is not

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Make a template from this doc."
  • "We write this same thing every week."
  • "Standardize our status updates."
  • "Why does nobody use our templates?"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/template-designer of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Template Designer

What does Template Designer do?

Turn a document the team keeps rewriting into a template that actually helps — extract the recurring skeleton, mark what varies with real placeholder prompts, keep it lighter than the ceremony it…. Template Designer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Turn a document the team keeps rewriting into a template that actually helps — extract the recurring skeleton, mark what varies with real placeholder prompts, keep it lighter than the ceremony it replaces, and pilot it before decreeing it.

When should I use Template Designer?

Template Designer fits situations like: asked make a template from this doc; we write this same thing every week; standardize our status updates; why does nobody use our templates.

How do I install Template Designer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill template-designer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/template-designer in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/template-designer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Template Designer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill template-designer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/template-designer in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/template-designer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Template 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill template-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/template-designer, .gemini/skills/template-designer, .github/skills/template-designer and .opencode/skills/template-designer in your project.

What does Template Designer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Template Designer is instructions for the agent only.

Does Template 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 Template 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 Template Designer use?

Template 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 Template Designer use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k 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 Template Designer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Template Designer: Frontend Slides (zarazhangrui/frontend-slides, 30k stars), Algorithmic Art with p5.js (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), Canvas Design (anthropics/skills, 180k stars) and Impeccable (bestofjs/bestofjs, 3.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Template Designer?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.