design

design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from asimons81/hardproof. It costs 23 tokens per session (284 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design workflow for turning verified software-discovery findings into a small, reviewable technical solution before coding begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define contracts and failure handling, compare approaches, record decisions, and prepare a design for human approval.
Why use it?
It makes behavior, interfaces, risks, alternatives, and rollback consequences clear before implementation starts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define contracts and failure handling, compare approaches, record decisions, and prepare a design for human approval.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/asimons81/hardproof/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 asimons81/hardproof --skill design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/asimons81/hardproof

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 284 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 $0.00023 $0.00284
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00114
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00028

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cf88698077f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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.

hardproof/skills/design/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Shape the Design

Purpose

Convert verified discovery into a coherent solution whose consequences can be reviewed before product code changes.

When to use

Use for the DESIGN stage selected by the active run context.

Inputs

Use the approved request boundary, discovery artifact, current interfaces, profile requirements, and recorded risks.

Procedure

  1. State the intended behavior and excluded scope.
  2. Define public contracts, data ownership, trust boundaries, failure behavior, and rollback implications.
  3. Compare viable alternatives and choose the smallest reversible option.
  4. Record consequential choices with hardproof_record as decisions.
  5. Write the design artifact with hardproof_record.

Required records

Standard and Critical runs require a design artifact and a separate human design approval. Model tools cannot create that approval.

Exit criteria

The design is testable, compatible with inspected APIs, explicit about risks, and ready for human review.

Failure modes

Return to DISCOVERY when essential facts are missing. Pause if a safe boundary cannot be designed. Do not weaken gates to fit an attractive approach.

Verification

Cross-check every interface claim and unresolved risk, then ask the human to use /hardproof approve design. After approval exists, call hardproof_transition for PLAN.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A cf88698077f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design is a skill published in the GitHub repository asimons81/hardproof (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 284 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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