design

A collaborative process for turning a feature idea into an approved design specification. A design specification describes what will be built and how it should work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when proposing a new feature or project to review the existing codebase, compare approaches, ask focused questions, and save the agreed design.
Why use it?
It helps clarify the purpose, limits, architecture, data flow, error handling, and testing approach before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/bacsystem/parallel-plan-executor/design
Any agent
npx skills add bacsystem/parallel-plan-executor --skill design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bacsystem/parallel-plan-executor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 721 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00060 $0.00721
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00360
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00072

Measured yesterday against content hash ef5099241c86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/design/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cys:design

Turn an idea into an approved design spec through natural collaborative dialogue. Understand first, propose second, write the spec last.

Announce at start: "Using cys:design to shape this idea into a spec."

Process

  1. Explore context — read the relevant files, docs and recent commits of the target repo before asking anything.
  2. Scope check — if the request spans multiple independent subsystems, say so and help decompose it first; one spec per coherent sub-project.
  3. Clarifying questions — ONE question per message. Prefer multiple choice. Cover purpose, constraints, and success criteria. Stop asking when you can state what you are building in two sentences.
  4. Propose 2-3 approaches — with trade-offs, leading with your recommendation and why.
  5. Present the design in sections — scale each section to its complexity; ask after each whether it looks right. Cover: architecture, components, data flow, error handling, testing.
  6. Write the spec to docs/cys/specs/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md (user preferences for location override this default) and commit it.
  7. Self-review the spec — placeholders ("TBD", vague requirements), internal contradictions, scope creep, ambiguous requirements readable two ways. Fix inline.
  8. User review gate — ask the user to review the written spec file. Only proceed on explicit approval.
  9. Hand off to cys:plan — the ONLY next step after approval is invoking cys:plan to write the implementation plan.

Design principles

  • Decisions the user already made are settled — do not re-litigate them.
  • YAGNI ruthlessly: strike features the goal does not need.
  • Prefer small units with one clear purpose and well-defined interfaces; if internals cannot change without breaking consumers, redraw the boundaries.
  • In existing codebases, follow the established patterns; propose targeted improvements only where existing problems block the current work.
  • Environment-dependent constraints are verified, not inherited. A prior spec's finding about this sandbox (a blocked binary, no Docker, etc.) does not automatically apply to a different stack or a later run — check it empirically for this project (e.g. docker info, whether the relevant binary/service actually responds) before letting it drive a decision like "tests can only use mocks."

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. yesterday First seen · 66 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A ef5099241c86

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design is a skill published in the GitHub repository bacsystem/parallel-plan-executor (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 721 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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