design

design is a command for coding agents from SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Plugin. It costs 14 tokens per session (691 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of design, MIT.

A system-design command for describing software architecture, APIs, components, or database structures. An API is the defined way that software parts communicate with each other.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design an application's architecture, define API interfaces, plan components, or describe database schemas.
Why use it?
It turns requirements and existing code into written specifications, diagrams, or code-shaped designs, making technical decisions easier to review before implementation.

Command

Part of the sc plugin — 32 commands, 20 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/superclaude-org/superclaude_plugin/sc-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Plugin

Or install sc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 commands, 20 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for design

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/superclaude-org/superclaude_plugin/sc-design.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/superclaude-org/superclaude_plugin/sc-design)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/superclaude-org/superclaude_plugin/sc-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/superclaude-org/superclaude_plugin/sc-design.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 691 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00014 $0.00691
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00345
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00069

Measured 4d ago against content hash fdbad6a1ed96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 4d 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

This is a copy

92% identical to design — 22 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

commands/sc-design.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/sc:sc:sc:design - System and Component Design

Triggers

  • Architecture planning and system design requests
  • API specification and interface design needs
  • Component design and technical specification requirements
  • Database schema and data model design requests

Usage

/sc:sc:design [target] [--type architecture|api|component|database] [--format diagram|spec|code]

Behavioral Flow

  1. Analyze: Examine target requirements and existing system context
  2. Plan: Define design approach and structure based on type and format
  3. Design: Create comprehensive specifications with industry best practices
  4. Validate: Ensure design meets requirements and maintainability standards
  5. Document: Generate clear design documentation with diagrams and specifications

Key behaviors:

  • Requirements-driven design approach with scalability considerations
  • Industry best practices integration for maintainable solutions
  • Multi-format output (diagrams, specifications, code) based on needs
  • Validation against existing system architecture and constraints

Tool Coordination

  • Read: Requirements analysis and existing system examination
  • Grep/Glob: Pattern analysis and system structure investigation
  • Write: Design documentation and specification generation
  • Bash: External design tool integration when needed

Key Patterns

  • Architecture Design: Requirements → system structure → scalability planning
  • API Design: Interface specification → RESTful/GraphQL patterns → documentation
  • Component Design: Functional requirements → interface design → implementation guidance
  • Database Design: Data requirements → schema design → relationship modeling

Examples

System Architecture Design

/sc:sc:design user-management-system --type architecture --format diagram
# Creates comprehensive system architecture with component relationships
# Includes scalability considerations and best practices

API Specification Design

/sc:sc:design payment-api --type api --format spec
# Generates detailed API specification with endpoints and data models
# Follows RESTful design principles and industry standards

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 4d ago First seen · 96 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A fdbad6a1ed96

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design is a command published in the GitHub repository SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Plugin (55 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 691 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to design, differing in 22 lines, and is treated as a copy.