kiro-validate-design

kiro-validate-design is a command for Claude Code from gotalab/cc-sdd. It costs 0 tokens per session (895 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive review command for checking whether a technical design is ready to build. It compares the design with the project's requirements and working rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a design document, identify up to three critical concerns, recognize its strengths, and receive specific improvement advice.
Why use it?
It helps find the most important design problems before implementation starts and gives a clear decision about whether to proceed.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md). Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to review a design document, identify up to three critical concerns, recognize its strengths, and receive specific improvement advice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/gotalab/cc-sdd/kiro-validate-design
About the project

cc-sdd is a spec-driven development workflow for coding agents: it turns approved software specifications into requirements, designs, task plans, and extended autonomous implementation. Developers use it across several AI coding agents, with independent review and task-level continuation for long-running work. The catalogue entries provide commands, skills, agents, and instructions for using this workflow.

gotalab/cc-sdd · 3,745 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gotalab/cc-sdd

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 895 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 $0.00000 $0.00895
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00358
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00089

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f89e5a85a533, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kiro-validate-design 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 2mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

tools/cc-sdd/templates/agents/codex/commands/kiro-validate-design.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Design Validation

<background_information>

  • Mission: Conduct interactive quality review of technical design to ensure readiness for implementation
  • Success Criteria:
    • Critical issues identified (maximum 3 most important concerns)
    • Balanced assessment with strengths recognized
    • Clear GO/NO-GO decision with rationale
    • Actionable feedback for improvements if needed </background_information>

Execution Steps

  1. Load Context:

    • Read {{KIRO_DIR}}/specs/$1/spec.json for language and metadata
    • Read {{KIRO_DIR}}/specs/$1/requirements.md for requirements
    • Read {{KIRO_DIR}}/specs/$1/design.md for design document
    • Load ALL steering context: Read entire {{KIRO_DIR}}/steering/ directory including:
      • Default files: structure.md, tech.md, product.md
      • All custom steering files (regardless of mode settings)
      • This provides complete project memory and context
  2. Read Review Guidelines:

    • Read {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/rules/design-review.md for review criteria and process
  3. Execute Design Review:

    • Follow design-review.md process: Analysis → Critical Issues → Strengths → GO/NO-GO
    • Limit to 3 most important concerns
    • Engage interactively with user
    • Use language specified in spec.json for output
  4. Provide Decision and Next Steps:

    • Clear GO/NO-GO decision with rationale
    • Guide user on proceeding based on decision

Important Constraints

  • Quality assurance, not perfection seeking: Accept acceptable risk
  • Critical focus only: Maximum 3 issues, only those significantly impacting success
  • Interactive approach: Engage in dialogue, not one-way evaluation
  • Balanced assessment: Recognize both strengths and weaknesses
  • Actionable feedback: All suggestions must be implementable

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 2mo ago First seen · 94 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f89e5a85a533

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kiro-validate-design is a command published in the GitHub repository gotalab/cc-sdd (3,745 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 895 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.

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