data-driven-design

data-driven-design is a skill for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers. It costs 32 tokens per session (8,753 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using maps, sensor readings, building use, climate data, and online data sources in architecture and urban design. It helps connect measurable evidence to design decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for GIS site analysis, occupancy and circulation studies, climate processing, sensor-data work, and other evidence-based AEC design tasks.
Why use it?
It reduces reliance on intuition alone by showing how to support site, space, environmental, and urban design choices with data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for GIS site analysis, occupancy and circulation studies, climate processing, sensor-data work, and other evidence-based AEC design tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abhinavbwj/claude-skills-for-computational-designers/data-driven-design
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Abhinavbwj/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers --skill data-driven-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,753 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 $0.00032 $0.08753
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.04376
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01751
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00875

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3505192cd70a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-driven-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 11d 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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/data-driven-design/SKILL.md · 643 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 643 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Data-Driven Design

This skill provides comprehensive guidance on integrating quantitative data into every stage of the architectural and urban design process. It covers geospatial data, environmental sensing, occupancy analytics, spatial network analysis, climate processing, urban datasets, and the APIs that serve them. The goal is to replace intuition-only design with evidence-based reasoning while preserving creative agency.


1. Data-Driven Design Philosophy

1.1 Evidence-Based vs. Intuition-Based Design

Traditional design relies heavily on precedent, aesthetic judgment, and professional intuition. These are valuable but unverifiable. Evidence-based design augments intuition with measurable inputs:

Dimension Intuition-Based Evidence-Based
Site analysis Walkthrough, photos GIS layers, sensor grids, satellite imagery
Program sizing Rules of thumb Occupancy analytics, utilization studies
Circulation Designer judgment Space syntax integration/choice values
Orientation Sun path intuition EPW-parsed radiation/temperature analysis
Massing Formal exploration Daylight/energy simulation feedback loops
Post-occupancy Anecdotal feedback Sensor-driven POE dashboards

Evidence-based design does not eliminate intuition. It provides a quantitative substrate on which creative decisions rest, making design rationale transparent, defensible, and reproducible.

1.2 Data as Design Input, Not Just Validation

The critical shift: data must enter the design process at the very beginning, not after decisions are made. In the traditional workflow, simulation runs after design is locked, serving only to confirm or reject. In a data-driven workflow:

  1. Pre-design data collection -- site climate, demographics, transport, land use, environmental constraints
  2. Data-informed brief -- program areas derived from utilization studies, not guesses
  3. Generative exploration -- design options generated with data constraints embedded
  4. Continuous feedback -- every design iteration evaluated against data-derived KPIs
  5. Post-occupancy loop -- sensor data feeds back into future project templates

Read the full file on GitHub · 643 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 643 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 3505192cd70a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

data-driven-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers (212 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 8,753 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.