rd-design

rd-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alieismy/codex-three-layer-delivery. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,574 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A detailed software-design aid that turns approved requirements and architecture decisions into build-ready technical specifications. It covers interfaces, data models, flows, errors, security, and operational behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define APIs, schemas, state machines, failure handling, configuration, migrations, security, observability, concurrency, and recovery behavior.
Why use it?
It fills in the contracts and edge cases developers need before implementation, while keeping each design choice tied to an approved requirement or decision.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: installed under .claude/, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to define APIs, schemas, state machines, failure handling, configuration, migrations, security, observability, concurrency, and recovery behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alieismy/codex-three-layer-delivery/rd-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 alieismy/codex-three-layer-delivery --skill rd-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alieismy/codex-three-layer-delivery

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,574 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 $0.00073 $0.01574
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00787
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00157

Measured 9d ago against content hash 40e3fdd97cde, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rd-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 9d 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.

claude/project/.claude/skills/rd-design/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

rd-design

Produce construction-ready detailed designs based on approved requirements and technical proposals — interface definitions, data models, critical flows, error handling, security design, and concurrency control.

Deliverables

  • Detailed design document (interfaces / data models / flows / state machines)
  • API contract definitions (OpenAPI / Protobuf / GraphQL Schema)
  • Database schema design
  • Security, error handling, and observability design sections
  • Configuration, migration, verification, and rollback contracts when infrastructure or integration is in scope

Execution Steps

1. Design Input Confirmation

  • Confirm the approved requirements and any material technical proposal or high-level design (rd-solution output)
  • Extract established: architectural decisions, tech stack selections, constraints
  • Identify design scope boundaries: which modules/services are covered in this iteration
  • Confirm traceability to PRD items or stakeholder-approved design decisions

Completion criterion: every in-scope design element traces to an approved requirement or decision, and each missing upstream decision is explicit before detailed contracts are written.

2. Interface Design

  • Define inter-module interface contracts (inputs, outputs, invariants, preconditions, postconditions, error codes, ordering, and idempotency requirements)
  • Distinguish and label internal vs. external interfaces
  • Specify API versioning strategy
  • Define backward compatibility constraints for interface changes

Completion criterion: every interface has ownership, inputs, outputs, invariants, failure behavior, ordering or idempotency semantics where applicable, and a compatibility boundary.

3. Data Model Design

  • Entity-Relationship diagram (ER Diagram) with primary keys, foreign keys, and indexes annotated
  • Field-level design: type, length, constraints, defaults, nullability
  • Data lifecycle: creation → update → archival → deletion
  • Data consistency strategy: strong consistency / eventual consistency / compensation

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 9d ago First seen · 150 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 40e3fdd97cde

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rd-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository alieismy/codex-three-layer-delivery (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,574 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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