Agent skill

Design

by serpro69 in serpro69/claude-toolbox

TRIGGER when: asked to write or refine a technical design, PRD, specification, implementation plan, or task list, or resume an existing docs/feat/wip feature.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Design

skills CLI
$ npx skills add serpro69/claude-toolbox --skill design -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install serpro69/claude-toolbox design --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/serpro69/claude-toolbox.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/kodex-plugin/skills/design .claude/skills/design && 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
GitHub stars
151
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
580 words
Files
52
Skills in repo
12
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

TRIGGER when: asked to write or refine a technical design, PRD, specification, implementation plan, or task list, or resume an existing docs/feat/wip feature.

  • Works in 6 steps: Keyword scan only. The idea prose (or… → Load instructions. Read the relevant… → Detect active profiles. Delegate to… → …
  • : asked to write
  • SKILL.md covers Conventions, Workflow, Ideas and Prototypes and Continue WIP Feature
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Design is an agent skill from serpro69/claude-toolbox. TRIGGER when: asked to write or refine a technical design, PRD, specification, implementation plan, or task list, or resume an existing docs/feat/wip feature. Turns ideas and requirements into written design documents, implementation plans, and tasks in docs/feat/wip/ before coding. For conversational exploration without written planning, use $kk:brainstorm.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 62 other files (for example `evals/clarity-after-drafting/README.md`, `evals/clarity-after-drafting/eval.json` and `evals/clarity-after-drafting/oracle/expected.json`).

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Planning, Brainstorming and Task breakdown. The repository describes itself as: Minimal by design, explicitly multi-lang, production-ready and battle-tested collection of configs and plugins for your Claude Code agentic development workflows: mcp, configs…

When your agent uses it

  • : asked to write
  • Refine a technical design
  • Implementation plan
  • Resume an existing docs/feat/wip feature

Example prompts

  • “/design”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Keyword scan only. The idea prose (or WIP feature directory) is scanned at the keyword/filename level — enough to drive profile detection…
  2. Load instructions. Read the relevant process file (idea-process.md or existing-task-process.md), the shared protocols above and…
  3. Detect active profiles. Delegate to shared-profile-detection.md. For fresh ideas, this uses the design interaction pattern (token matching…
  4. Load profile content. For each active profile contributing a design/ subdirectory, read its index.md and all always-load and matching…
  5. Engage with subject matter. Follow the selected process file's content-reading, refinement and drafting steps.
  6. Recommend next steps. After drafting or substantive refinement, suggest an optional $kk:clarify-docs invocation naming the created or…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c2d28c9. 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

Design loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 92 tokens; SKILL.md has 580 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~92
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 580 words (~1,322 tokens).

“Goal: Before writing any code, make sure you understand the requirements and have an implementation plan ready.”

— opening of SKILL.md by serpro69, Custom licence
name
design

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 51 other files in kodex-plugin/skills/design of serpro69/claude-toolbox.

  • SKILL.md
  • evals/clarity-after-drafting/README.md
  • evals/clarity-after-drafting/eval.json
  • evals/clarity-after-drafting/oracle/expected.json
  • evals/clarity-after-drafting/oracle/runbook.md
  • evals/clarity-after-drafting/test-files/accepted.md
  • evals/clarity-refined-documents-only/README.md
  • evals/clarity-refined-documents-only/eval.json
  • evals/clarity-refined-documents-only/oracle/expected.json
  • evals/clarity-refined-documents-only/test-files/docs/feat/wip/archive-label/design.md
  • … and 42 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c2d28c9

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Spec Workflowhashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins1.2k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
LLM Councilgcpdev/llm-council-skill4611 repos~1kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT

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Categories

Questions about Design

What does Design do?

TRIGGER when: asked to write or refine a technical design, PRD, specification, implementation plan, or task list, or resume an existing docs/feat/wip feature. Design is an agent skill from serpro69/claude-toolbox. TRIGGER when: asked to write or refine a technical design, PRD, specification, implementation plan, or task list, or resume an existing docs/feat/wip feature.

When should I use Design?

Design fits situations like: : asked to write; refine a technical design; implementation plan; resume an existing docs/feat/wip feature.

How do I install Design in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add serpro69/claude-toolbox --skill design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (kodex-plugin/skills/design in serpro69/claude-toolbox) into .claude/skills/design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Design in Codex?

Run `npx skills add serpro69/claude-toolbox --skill design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (kodex-plugin/skills/design in serpro69/claude-toolbox) into .agents/skills/design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Design 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 serpro69/claude-toolbox --skill design -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, .gemini/skills/design, .github/skills/design and .opencode/skills/design in your project.

What does Design need to run?

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

Does Design 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 Design 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 use?

Design 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 Design use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Design?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Design: Discover (anombyte93/prd-taskmaster, 604 stars), Execute Task (anombyte93/prd-taskmaster, 604 stars), Kiro Skill (Microck/ordinary-claude-skills, 401 stars) and Spec Workflow (hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins, 1.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Design?

serpro69 (a GitHub user) maintains it in serpro69/claude-toolbox, which has 151 GitHub stars. The repository holds 12 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 3, 2026.

Source: serpro69/claude-toolbox on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.