Agent skill

Workshop Designer

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Design working sessions that produce artifacts, not vibes — the outcome-backwards agenda, the activity formats that beat open discussion (silent writing, dot voting, structured rounds), the energy…

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Install Workshop Designer

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills workshop-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/workshop-designer .claude/skills/workshop-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
workshop-designer
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
681 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Design working sessions that produce artifacts, not vibes — the outcome-backwards agenda, the activity formats that beat open discussion (silent writing, dot voting, structured rounds), the energy…

  • Works in 5 steps: Backwards from the artifact: write the… → Silent writing beats brainstorming:… → Converge with mechanisms, not debate:… → …
  • Asked design a workshop for X
  • 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

Workshop Designer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Design working sessions that produce artifacts, not vibes — the outcome-backwards agenda, the activity formats that beat open discussion (silent writing, dot voting, structured rounds), the energy arc, and the output-capture that survives the room. Use when asked design a workshop for X, plan our planning session, facilitate a half-day working session, or our workshops are fun but nothing comes out. Produces the workshop design: the artifact goal, the activity sequence with timings, the facilitation notes, 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 design a workshop for X
  • Plan our planning session
  • Facilitate a half-day working session
  • Our workshops are fun but nothing comes out

Example prompts

  • “/workshop-designer”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Backwards from the artifact: write the artifact spec first, then ask "what's the last activity that produces it?" and chain backwards…
  2. Silent writing beats brainstorming: individual writing first (everyone produces, nobody anchors), then share-and-cluster — this one…
  3. Converge with mechanisms, not debate: dot votes, forced ranking, 2×2 placement — convergence tools that produce a visible ordered result…
  4. Design the energy arc: hard divergence early (fresh minds), mechanical convergence mid, decisions before the last block (never in it…
  5. Capture is a role, not an afterthought: one named person photographs boards, transcribes clusters, and records decisions as they happen…

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

Workshop Designer loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 138 tokens; SKILL.md has 681 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~138
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). 681 words, ~1,379 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/workshop-designer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
workshop-designer
description
Design working sessions that produce artifacts, not vibes — the outcome-backwards agenda, the activity formats that beat open discussion (silent writing, dot voting, structured rounds), the energy arc, and the output-capture that survives the room. Use when asked design a workshop for X, plan our planning session, facilitate a half-day working session, or our workshops are fun but nothing comes out. Produces the workshop design: the artifact goal, the activity sequence with timings, the facilitation notes, and the capture plan.

Workshop Designer Skill

Workshops fail pleasantly: good discussion, full whiteboards, warm feelings — and nothing anyone can use on Monday. The fix is designing backwards from the artifact: name the thing the room must produce (a prioritized list, a draft charter, three concept sketches, an agreed map), then choose activities that manufacture it — and open discussion is almost never that activity, because it's dominated by the confident and produces talk, not output. Silent writing, structured rounds, and forced ranking exist precisely because they extract from everyone and converge on paper.

What This Skill Produces

  • The artifact spec — what the workshop produces, concretely, and who uses it afterward
  • The activity sequence — timeboxed blocks, each transforming the previous block's output toward the artifact
  • The facilitation notes — per block: instructions verbatim, the timekeeping, the dominance-management moves
  • The capture plan — how outputs leave the room usable (photographed, transcribed, owned) — the step every fun workshop skips

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The artifact — pushed to concrete: "alignment on strategy" becomes "a one-page strategy statement the leads will sign" (outline-before-prose claim-discipline applies to workshop goals too)
  • The cast — headcount, seniority mix, the known dominators and the known silents (the design manages both), remote/hybrid reality
  • The time box and the room — 90 minutes designs differently than a day; hybrid needs its own mechanics (boards everyone can touch)
  • The pre-work tolerance — what the group will actually do beforehand (honest answer: little — design for it)

Framework: The Design Rules

  1. Backwards from the artifact: write the artifact spec first, then ask "what's the last activity that produces it?" and chain backwards — every block's output is the next block's input, and any block whose output feeds nothing gets cut. Agendas built forward accumulate activities; backwards they earn them.
  2. Silent writing beats brainstorming: individual writing first (everyone produces, nobody anchors), then share-and-cluster — this one substitution fixes the dominance problem, the anchoring problem, and the quiet-expert problem simultaneously. Structured rounds (each person, 60 seconds, no responses) do the same for discussion.
  3. Converge with mechanisms, not debate: dot votes, forced ranking, 2×2 placement — convergence tools that produce a visible ordered result in minutes. Debate converges at the speed of stamina; mechanisms converge at the speed of the timebox — debate then happens richly on the top-3, where it's worth its cost.
  4. Design the energy arc: hard divergence early (fresh minds), mechanical convergence mid, decisions before the last block (never in it — tired rooms decide badly), and breaks before the room needs them. After-lunch blocks are active or they're naps with agendas.
  5. Capture is a role, not an afterthought: one named person photographs boards, transcribes clusters, and records decisions as they happen — and the workshop's last ten minutes assign every output an owner and a date in front of the room. The artifact spec is met when the usable version exists outside the room, same day.
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Output Format

Workshop: [artifact] — [duration], [N] people

The Artifact Spec

[What exists at the end · who uses it Monday · the sign-of-success]

The Sequence

TimeBlockFormatOutput → feeds
[Diverge (silent-first) → cluster → converge (mechanism) → decide (pre-fatigue) → assign]

Facilitation Notes

[Per block: verbatim instructions · the dominance moves (rounds, parking lot) · hybrid mechanics if needed]

Capture Plan

[The capture role (named) · boards → digital same-day · the last-10-minutes owner-and-date assignment]

Quality Checks

  • The artifact is concrete and its Monday user is named
  • Every block's output feeds the next; orphan activities were cut
  • Divergence starts silent; convergence uses mechanisms
  • Decisions land before the final-hour fatigue
  • Capture has a named owner and outputs leave the room same-day

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not design forward from fun activities — backwards from the artifact or it's team-building in disguise (which is fine, but name it)
  • Do not open with group brainstorming — silent writing first, always
  • Do not converge by discussion — mechanisms converge; discussion enriches the converged
  • Do not schedule deciding last — tired rooms defer or decide badly
  • Do not let the boards die in the room — un-captured workshops happened only emotionally

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Design a workshop for X."
  • "Plan our planning session."
  • "Facilitate a half-day working session."
  • "Our workshops are fun but nothing comes out."

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Workshop Designer

What does Workshop Designer do?

Design working sessions that produce artifacts, not vibes — the outcome-backwards agenda, the activity formats that beat open discussion (silent writing, dot voting, structured rounds), the energy…. Workshop Designer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Design working sessions that produce artifacts, not vibes — the outcome-backwards agenda, the activity formats that beat open discussion (silent writing, dot voting, structured rounds), the energy arc, and the output-capture that survives the room.

When should I use Workshop Designer?

Workshop Designer fits situations like: asked design a workshop for X; plan our planning session; facilitate a half-day working session; our workshops are fun but nothing comes out.

How do I install Workshop Designer in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Workshop Designer in Codex?

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

Can I use Workshop 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 workshop-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/workshop-designer, .gemini/skills/workshop-designer, .github/skills/workshop-designer and .opencode/skills/workshop-designer in your project.

What does Workshop Designer need to run?

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

Does Workshop 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 Workshop 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 Workshop Designer use?

Workshop 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 Workshop 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 Workshop Designer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Workshop 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 Workshop 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.

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