Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add AkoliteZA/hermes-agent-idea-workflow --skill idea-to-design-docgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AkoliteZA/hermes-agent-idea-workflowWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00029 | $0.01422 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00711 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00284 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00142 |
Grade A, and why
idea-to-design-doc 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Idea to Design Doc Workflow
Use this skill when the user says things like:
- "I have an idea for an app"
- "Help me flesh out this product"
- "Turn this thought into a design doc"
- "Make me a list of ideas and link each one to a note"
Goal
Convert a rough idea into a structured design document with:
- A master ideas index
- One markdown note per idea
- A guided interview that stops when the user says
stop,that's enough, ordone - The product idea, philosophy, intended experience, and practical technical shape needed to understand the app
This workflow starts with product thinking and only moves into technical aspects after the concept/philosophy is clear. The design doc should capture what the user wants and enough technical direction to support a later build plan.
Important constraints
- Do not push into backend, frameworks, database design, or code architecture too early.
- First capture product intent, behavior, audience, layout, features, UX, and philosophy.
- Then, when drafting the design doc, include the relevant technical aspects: platform assumptions, major system components, data needs, integrations, constraints, and likely architecture questions.
- For Full mode or build-bound ideas, recommend sensible technical defaults first, then let the user accept or change them. Cover database/storage, hosting/deployment, backend/runtime, frontend/UI, auth, platform targets, and other technical pieces only after the product direction is clear.
- Ask one question at a time when possible.
- If the user gives a short answer, follow up with a narrower question.
- If the user says to stop, immediately draft the note from what you have.
Default storage layout
Save files locally first, rather than directly into the Obsidian vault.
Recommended local folder structure:
./ideas/Ideas Index.md./ideas/<idea-title>.md
If the user later wants Obsidian export, treat that as a separate export step.
Lite vs Full mode
Use Lite mode for quick idea capture: ask only enough to produce a useful note. Use Full mode when the user wants a durable design doc or eventual implementation handoff.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 189 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A c0b6b642b9de
idea-to-design-doc is a skill published in the GitHub repository AkoliteZA/hermes-agent-idea-workflow (267 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,422 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.
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