design-handoff-brief

design-handoff-brief is a skill for Claude Code from cnfeat/top-pm-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (863 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured design-brief tool that turns a feature brief or PRD into requirements a designer can use before opening Figma, a design application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare design handoffs for new features and translate product requirements into clear design requirements.
Why use it?
It prevents designers from missing the user's goal, constraints, edge cases, success measures, or work that is outside the feature's scope.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pm-advanced plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare design handoffs for new features and translate product requirements into clear design requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/design-handoff-brief
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 cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill design-handoff-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-advanced, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 863 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 $0.00083 $0.00863
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00432
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00086

Measured 9d ago against content hash f85dd6d7974d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-handoff-brief 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.

参考skill/pm-claude-skills-main/pm-claude-skills-main/plugins/pm-advanced/skills/design-handoff-brief/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Handoff Brief Skill

Produce a design brief that sets designers up for success — grounding them in user context and constraints before they open Figma, not after they've gone in the wrong direction.

Required Inputs

Ask the user for these if not provided:

  • Feature brief or PRD (even rough notes work)
  • Designer's name or team (for personalisation)
  • Technical constraints (any engineering limitations already known)
  • Timeline (when does design need to be done?)

What Designers Actually Need (and PMs Often Skip)

  • The user's goal, not the feature name
  • The emotional state of the user at this moment in the journey
  • What success looks like — how will we know the design worked?
  • Constraints: technical, legal, brand, accessibility
  • Edge cases that must be handled
  • What we're explicitly NOT solving for

Process

  1. Read the feature brief or PRD provided
  2. Extract user goal (reframe from feature language to user outcome language)
  3. Identify constraints — technical limitations, brand guidelines, accessibility requirements
  4. List edge cases the design must handle
  5. Define success criteria the design should be evaluated against
  6. Write a "not in scope" section to prevent scope creep in design
  7. Validate — Confirm every edge case listed is specific enough to design for, and every out-of-scope item is concrete enough to say "no" to

Output Structure

Design Brief: [Feature Name]

User Goal: (in the user's words, not ours) "When I [situation], I want to [motivation] so that I can [outcome]."

Context & Emotional State: [Where is the user in their journey? What are they feeling? What just happened?]

Design Success Criteria:

  • [Criterion 1 — measurable where possible]
  • [Criterion 2]
  • [Criterion 3]

Constraints:

  • Technical: [limitations engineering has flagged]
  • Brand: [relevant brand guidelines]
  • Accessibility: [WCAG level required, any specific requirements]
  • Legal/Compliance: [if applicable]

Edge Cases to Design For:

  • [Edge case 1]
  • [Edge case 2]
  • [Edge case 3]

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 9d ago First seen · 84 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A f85dd6d7974d

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design-handoff-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 863 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 2026-09-03.

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