design-engineer:help

A help command for a product-design plugin used with Claude Code. It explains the plugin's available workflows for research, prototyping, development, review, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to see the available design-engineer commands, learn what each workflow does, and check project status.
Why use it?
It gives new users a quick way to understand which command fits their current stage of product work. It also shows the current project status and operating mode.

Command

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/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin/help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin
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 788 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00020 $0.00788
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00079

Measured 2d ago against content hash d72cc219a654, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-engineer:help 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 2d 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/help.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Engineer Plugin – Help

Present this information to the user. Do not modify the text – show it as written.


A plugin for Claude Code that walks you through building a product, start to finish. Think of it as a swiss knife for product design. It packs a full methodology into one tool – research, psychology, prototyping, development – but stays easy to pick up. You run one command, it figures out where you are, and opens the right instrument.

Commands

Command What it does
/design-engineer:launch Detects your situation – setup, resume, or capability guide
/design-engineer:discovery Runs the design workflow – discovery, strategy, planning, validation
/design-engineer:prototype Generates clickable HTML prototypes from an idea, planning docs, or existing designs
/design-engineer:development Development workflow – CLAUDE.md, agent pipeline, context management, TDD, implementation
/design-engineer:review Reviews your work – visual quality, accessibility, psychology (100+ principles), design system, ethics
/design-engineer:document Saves decisions, learnings, and project state. Auto-purges disposable working files at every phase boundary. Helps communicate with stakeholders
/design-engineer:stop Save progress and pause mid-activity – pick up later with /design-engineer:launch
/design-engineer:tidy Manual purge of disposable working files under .design-engineer-plugin/temporary/ (Playwright debug captures, intermediate drafts, scratch). Use before commit, or anytime the working tree feels noisy
/design-engineer:help This help screen

You only need to remember /design-engineer:launch. It guides you to everything else.

Modes

Most commands work in two ways:

  • Guided mode – step-by-step with approval at every stage. The AI explains its thinking, shows findings one at a time, and waits for your input at each step.
  • Autopilot – autonomous with minimal input. The AI plans and executes, then shows you the results. Faster but you review after, not during.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 2d ago First seen · 60 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A d72cc219a654

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-engineer:help is a command published in the GitHub repository volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 788 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 2026-08-30.