authoring-designs

authoring-designs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bostonaholic/team. It costs 27 tokens per session (797 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for writing design documents that guide software changes before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when drafting or revising a design.md file, especially for work that may affect more than one code repository.
Why use it?
It keeps the document within the correct repository scope, records assumptions, and uses a consistent structure so later work can rely on it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the team plugin — 92 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when drafting or revising a design.md file, especially for work that may affect more than one code repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bostonaholic/team/authoring-designs
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 bostonaholic/team --skill authoring-designs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 92 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 797 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 $0.00027 $0.00797
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00080

Measured yesterday against content hash d5c9954b053e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

authoring-designs 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/authoring-designs/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Authoring Designs

Confirm repo scope, resolve choices autonomously as recorded assumptions, and write 6-design.md. Use seventh-grade STE-flavored prose; call the Skill tool with writing-prose and apply ## Self-lint before finalizing.

If 1-task.md references 3-prd.md, read it first and follow “Consuming a PRD downstream” in skills/product-requirements-doc/SKILL.md.

Confirm repo scope

If docs/plans/<id>/4-repos.md exists, treat it as the working scope and name each affected repo in ## Decisions made.

If absent but 5-research.md indicates multiple repos, resolve each candidate autonomously. Require <name> to match ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$ and not equal . or ..; reject separators, absolute paths, traversal, and shell metacharacters. Resolve only <root>/../<name>, confirm its .git with Glob/Read (the questioner uses git -C <path> rev-parse --git-dir), and never record a path unless verified as a direct child of the home repo's parent.

When all candidates resolve, write docs/plans/<id>/4-repos.md from skills/artifact-frontmatter/SKILL.md before drafting. If any fails, remain single-repo and name the omitted repo/work in ## Risks. Never silently expand repo scope.

Resolve choices autonomously

Never pause for user input. Record every resolved choice in ## Decisions made as “Assumption — chosen without user review”; defer only low-stakes items to ## Open questions (deferred) (principle-record-assumptions). On revision, address reviewer findings verbatim and record new assumptions the same way.

Call the Skill tool with decision-making before resolving a technical choice with two or more viable options. Record its decision basis with the assumption.

Design contract

Read references/design-template.md before drafting. The required sections are ## Current state, ## Desired end state, ## Patterns to follow, ## Decisions made, ## Out of scope, optional ## Surfaces, ## Open questions (deferred), and ## Risks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. yesterday Changed · +3 lines d5c9954b053e
  2. 4d ago Changed · -129 lines · -27 tokens per session 1f3759e5a3f2
  3. 6d ago Changed · +10 lines 592019b05273
  4. 10d ago First seen · 155 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 5308a6f68172

Subscribe to this mod's changes

authoring-designs is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/team (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 797 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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