Agent skill

Design Deck

by nicobailon in nicobailon/pi-design-deck

Present visual options for architecture, UI, and code decisions with high-fidelity side-by-side previews.

No licenceAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Design Deck

skills CLI
$ npx skills add nicobailon/pi-design-deck --skill design-deck -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install nicobailon/pi-design-deck design-deck --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/nicobailon/pi-design-deck.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/design-deck .claude/skills/design-deck && 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
design-deck
GitHub stars
291
Token cost
~4.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,043 words
Files
13 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
1
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Present visual options for architecture, UI, and code decisions with high-fidelity side-by-side previews.

  • Works in 4 steps: Read the plan in full. Also read the… → Identify the key design and architecture… → Build a slide for each decision point.… → …
  • Tasks that involve Diagrams
  • SKILL.md covers Entry Points, When to Build a Deck Directly, Plan/PRD-Driven Flow and Slide Structure, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Design Deck is an agent skill from nicobailon/pi-design-deck. Present visual options for architecture, UI, and code decisions with high-fidelity side-by-side previews. For comparing approaches visually — code diffs, diagrams, UI mockups, images — not for gathering structured input (use interview for that). Supports previewBlocks (code, mermaid, image, html), previewHtml, generate-more loops, and plan/PRD-driven flows.

Its SKILL.md is about 4.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 15 other files, including reference files (for example `references/component-gallery/INDEX.md`, `references/component-gallery/LOOKUP.md` and `references/component-gallery/components.md`).

It sits in Product & Project Management, covering Diagrams, PRD writing and UI design. It works with Mermaid. The repository describes itself as: Visual design deck for presenting multi-slide options with high-fidelity previews.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Diagrams
  • Tasks that involve PRD writing
  • Tasks that involve UI design

Example prompts

  • “/design-deck”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read the plan in full. Also read the actual codebase files it references — not just the sections mentioned, but enough surrounding code to…
  2. Identify the key design and architecture decisions embedded in the plan. Not every section is a decision — focus on points where multiple…
  3. Build a slide for each decision point. Options should be faithful to the plan's goals but offer genuinely different approaches.
  4. Reference specific plan sections in aside text and recommendations.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ddf9089. 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 bash and json).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • component.gallery

    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

Design Deck loads about 4.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~195k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 93 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,043 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~93
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~195k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,043 words (~4,251 tokens).

“Use this skill when the task requires presenting multiple visual directions and collecting explicit user choices. Load this skill before building any deck to get the full format reference.”

— opening of SKILL.md by nicobailon
name
design-deck

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 12 other files (references) in skills/design-deck of nicobailon/pi-design-deck.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/component-gallery/INDEX.md
  • references/component-gallery/LOOKUP.md
  • references/component-gallery/components.md
  • references/component-gallery/components/INDEX.md
  • references/component-gallery/components/actions.md
  • references/component-gallery/components/data-display.md
  • references/component-gallery/components/feedback.md
  • references/component-gallery/components/inputs.md
  • references/component-gallery/components/layout.md
  • references/component-gallery/components/navigation.md
  • references/component-gallery/components/overlays.md
  • references/component-gallery/components/utilities.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ddf9089

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Design Deck next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Idea Ossickn33/agentic-awesome-skills47k1 repos~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Sf Diagram NanobananaproJaganpro/sf-skills424—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Works with

Questions about Design Deck

What does Design Deck do?

Present visual options for architecture, UI, and code decisions with high-fidelity side-by-side previews. Design Deck is an agent skill from nicobailon/pi-design-deck. Present visual options for architecture, UI, and code decisions with high-fidelity side-by-side previews.

When should I use Design Deck?

Design Deck fits situations like: tasks that involve Diagrams; tasks that involve PRD writing; tasks that involve UI design.

How do I install Design Deck in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add nicobailon/pi-design-deck --skill design-deck -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/design-deck in nicobailon/pi-design-deck) into .claude/skills/design-deck in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Design Deck in Codex?

Run `npx skills add nicobailon/pi-design-deck --skill design-deck -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/design-deck in nicobailon/pi-design-deck) into .agents/skills/design-deck in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Design Deck 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 nicobailon/pi-design-deck --skill design-deck -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/design-deck, .gemini/skills/design-deck, .github/skills/design-deck and .opencode/skills/design-deck in your project.

What does Design Deck need to run?

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

Does Design Deck access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: component.gallery. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Design Deck 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 Design Deck use?

No licence was found for Design Deck or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Design Deck use?

About 4.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 17k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 191k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Design Deck?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Design Deck: B2B PRD Generator (pmYangKun/create-prd-skill, 348 stars), PRD Generator (Fokkyp/claude-skills, 226 stars), Write Brd (digoal/blog, 8.6k stars) and Idea Os (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Design Deck?

nicobailon (a GitHub user) maintains it in nicobailon/pi-design-deck, which has 291 GitHub stars. The repository was last updated on August 2, 2026.

Source: nicobailon/pi-design-deck on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.