design-engineer-plugin CLAUDE.md

design-engineer-plugin CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin. It costs 17,303 tokens per session, scanned D, original, MIT.

A set of development rules for a plugin that provides design-engineering commands. Its commands load supporting instructions from known plugin files through a path supplied in the conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or changing commands and skills in this design-engineering plugin. It explains the required command structure and the plugin path to use.
Why use it?
It prevents commands from trying to use a restricted automatic skill-loading mechanism that would make them fail. It also standardizes how commands find the plugin's files.

Instructions file

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside the plugin that ships it — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed.

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 instructions/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin

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Per session 17,303 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 17,303 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan D 2 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 $0.17303 $0.17303
Opus 5 $0.08651 $0.08651
Sonnet 5 $0.03461 $0.03461
Haiku 4.5 $0.01730 $0.01730

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8d14d9fa9d92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

design-engineer-plugin CLAUDE.md scanned grade D with 2 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 5d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

**Debugging**: run `tail -f ~/.claude/cache/de-process-recall.log` to verify the hook fires when expected. Each fire appends a single line of the form `[ISO_TIMESTAMP] FIRED | workflow=<name> cwd=<path>`.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

The default `<YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS>` timestamp pattern for scratch captures keeps debug output organized by session — easy to scan, easy to delete a day's worth in one `rm -rf .design-engineer-plugin/temporary/playwright/20
CLAUDE.md · 945 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 945 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Engineer Plugin Development

Skill loading from commands (doc-compliant pattern)

This plugin's skills all set disable-model-invocation: true (intentional — skills are libraries loaded by commands, not auto-discoverable workflows). The Skill tool will REJECT any attempt to invoke them programmatically with the error: Skill <name> cannot be used with Skill tool due to disable-model-invocation.

Therefore, never tell the model to "load the X skill" or "invoke the Y skill" in a command body. The model interprets that as a Skill-tool call and the command crashes on the very first run.

The required pattern

Every command file MUST start its body with this short note (placed just after the # Title heading and before any other section):

## Plugin paths

Your conversation context contains a line `DESIGN_ENGINEER_PLUGIN_ROOT: <absolute path>` injected by the plugin's UserPromptSubmit hook. Whenever this command references `${DESIGN_ENGINEER_PLUGIN_ROOT}/...`, substitute the absolute path from that context line. No shell commands are run from this command body.

This relies on a single, permission-free mechanism: the plugin's UserPromptSubmit hook (hooks/de-start-state.sh) injects DESIGN_ENGINEER_PLUGIN_ROOT: <abs path> as additionalContext text on every prompt. The model sees that line in its context and uses it as the substitution value when it encounters ${DESIGN_ENGINEER_PLUGIN_ROOT}/... in the command body.

Mechanisms NOT to use, and why

  • Bash injection (!`...`) — documented at https://code.claude.com/docs/en/slash-commands.md#inject-dynamic-context, but Claude Code's permission system blocks !-prefix patterns at command-load time in Auto mode and any restrictive permission preset, with: Shell command permission check failed for pattern "!...". Permission for this action has been denied. Reason: Insufficient information about the Bash command to evaluate; action is unverifiable. v4.8.5 tried this approach and crashed /design-engineer:launch for users in Auto mode. Do NOT use bash injection in command bodies.
  • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} — officially documented for hooks/hooks.json command fields ONLY. Does not auto-expand inside slash command markdown bodies. Hooks may use it; commands may not.
  • Skill tool to invoke plugin skills — every plugin skill sets disable-model-invocation: true, so the Skill tool will reject them with Skill <name> cannot be used with Skill tool due to disable-model-invocation. The only correct way to load a skill is Read ${DESIGN_ENGINEER_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/<name>/SKILL.md and follow its instructions inline.

Read the full file on GitHub · 945 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. 5d ago First seen · 945 lines · 17,303 tokens per session scan D 8d14d9fa9d92

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design-engineer-plugin CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin (19 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17,303 tokens to every session, about $0.0865 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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