review-design-checklist

review-design-checklist is a command for Claude Code from axiomantic/spellbook. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,132 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for checking whether a design document covers architecture, data, APIs, files, errors, edge cases, dependencies, and migrations. Each item is marked specified, vague, missing, or not applicable with a reason.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit technical designs for missing schemas, API behavior, failure handling, limits, dependencies, and migration steps.
Why use it?
It exposes important details that a design may overlook and distinguishes a clear specification from one that only sounds complete. This helps prevent implementers from filling gaps with guesses.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

Good fit Use it to audit technical designs for missing schemas, API behavior, failure handling, limits, dependencies, and migration steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/axiomantic/spellbook/review-design-checklist
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/axiomantic/spellbook

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,132 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 $0.00020 $0.01132
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00566
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00113

Measured 6d ago against content hash 654599c10c19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-design-checklist 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 6d 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/review-design-checklist.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase 2: Completeness Checklist

Invariant Principles

  1. VAGUE is worse than MISSING - A vague specification misleads implementers; a missing one forces a question
  2. N/A requires justification - Unjustified N/A is equivalent to MISSING
  3. Checklists are exhaustive by design - Do not skip categories because they seem unlikely to apply

Mark each item: SPECIFIED | VAGUE | MISSING | N/A (justify N/A)

Category Items
Architecture System diagram, component boundaries, data flow, control flow, state management, sync/async boundaries
Data Models with field specs, schema, validation rules, transformations, storage formats
API/Protocol Endpoints, request/response schemas, error codes, auth, rate limits, versioning
Filesystem Directory structure, module responsibilities, naming conventions, key classes, imports
Errors Categories, propagation paths, recovery mechanisms, retry policies, failure modes
Edge Cases Enumerated cases, boundary conditions, null handling, max limits, concurrency
Dependencies All listed, version constraints, fallback behavior, API contracts
Migration Steps, rollback, data migration, backwards compat (or N/A - BREAKING OK)

REST API Design Checklist

Richardson Maturity Model (Level 2+ required for "SPECIFIED"):

Level Requirement Check
L0 Single endpoint, POST everything Mark API as VAGUE
L1 Resources identified by URIs /users/123 not /getUser?id=123
L2 HTTP verbs used correctly GET=read, POST=create, PUT=replace, PATCH=update, DELETE=remove
L3 HATEOAS (hypermedia) Optional but note if claimed

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 130 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 654599c10c19

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review-design-checklist is a command published in the GitHub repository axiomantic/spellbook (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,132 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.