design-doc

design-doc is a command for Claude Code from Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS. It costs 21 tokens per session (356 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineering design document that explains a problem, compares possible solutions, and gives reviewers enough detail to approve or challenge the proposal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document requirements, architecture, data and interfaces, alternatives, trade-offs, failure cases, rollout, and open questions.
Why use it?
It makes decisions, constraints, risks, rollback plans, and unanswered questions visible before implementation begins.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to document requirements, architecture, data and interfaces, alternatives, trade-offs, failure cases, rollout, and open questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/amey-thakur/ai-skills/design-doc
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 356 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00356
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 9d ago against content hash f4dd524d0965, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-doc scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/design-doc.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

You were invoked as a slash command. The user's input:

$ARGUMENTS

Use that input to fill this prompt's variables (take the main content, topic, or task from it; ask only if a required value is missing and not supplied), then follow the prompt exactly.


Write an engineering design doc for:

{problem}

Context: {context}

Structure (Google-style design doc):

  • Context and problem: what we are solving and why now, with the background a reviewer needs. Include goals and explicit non-goals (what this does NOT do).
  • Requirements and constraints: functional and non-functional, and the hard constraints (deadlines, dependencies, compliance).
  • Proposed design: the approach, the architecture, the data model, the key interfaces. Enough detail that a reviewer can find the flaws.
  • Alternatives considered: the other options and why you did not choose them. This is where a design doc earns trust: showing you weighed the space.
  • Tradeoffs and risks: what this design gives up, what could go wrong, and how you mitigate it. Cover failure modes, rollout, and rollback.
  • Open questions: what is still undecided and needs input.

Rules: write to be reviewed, not to sell: surface the weaknesses, do not hide them. Justify decisions with reasons a reviewer can challenge. Concrete over hand-wavy (name the technologies, the numbers, the interfaces). If a section is thin because a decision is genuinely open, put it in Open Questions rather than faking certainty.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 40 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A f4dd524d0965

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design-doc is a command published in the GitHub repository Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS (7 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 356 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.