design-ops

design-ops is a skill for Claude Code from cuellarfr/design-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (4,076 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of operating practices for design teams, covering how they plan work, collaborate with developers, document decisions, and check quality.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running five-day design sprints, organizing handoffs, setting team rituals, maintaining documentation standards, and performing design quality checks.
Why use it?
It gives teams a shared process for handling unclear or high-stakes design problems and for moving designs into implementation with fewer misunderstandings.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the design-skills plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Running five-day design sprints, organizing handoffs, setting team rituals, maintaining documentation standards, and performing design quality checks.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for design-ops

README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,076 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high System Prompt Leakage · line 47
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.04076
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.02038
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00815
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00408

Measured 10d ago against content hash 83b95806ea59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-ops 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 10d 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.

skills/design-ops/SKILL.md · 325 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 325 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Ops & Handoff

Operational processes that make design teams effective — sprints, handoff, rituals, documentation, and quality assurance.


Design Sprints

A 5-day process for solving big problems and testing ideas before committing engineering resources. Based on Jake Knapp's Sprint methodology developed at Google Ventures.

When to Sprint

Signal Sprint Is Right Sprint Is Wrong
Problem clarity Big problem, unclear solution Solution already known — just build it
Stakes High — wrong direction costs months Low — easy to course-correct later
Team alignment Disagreement on approach Team already aligned
Time pressure Need answers this week Can run a longer discovery process
Complexity Cross-functional problem Single-discipline task

The 5-Day Structure

Day Focus Key Activity Output
Monday Map Define the challenge, set a 2-year goal, map the problem space, pick a target Sprint questions, problem map, target area
Tuesday Sketch Review existing solutions, each person sketches solutions individually Solution sketches (one per person)
Wednesday Decide Present sketches, vote (dot voting + decider picks), create storyboard Storyboard for prototype
Thursday Prototype Build a realistic facade — just enough to test Testable prototype
Friday Test 5 user interviews, observe together, identify patterns Go/no-go decision with evidence

Sprint Team

Role Count Responsibility
Decider 1 Has authority to make final calls. Usually PM or founder
Facilitator 1 Runs the process, keeps time, manages energy
Designer 1-2 Leads sketching, builds prototype
Engineer 1-2 Feasibility gut-checks, helps prototype
Domain expert 1-2 Customer support, sales, marketing — whoever knows the user
Total 5-7 More than 7 is counterproductive

Read the full file on GitHub · 325 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. 10d ago First seen · 325 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 83b95806ea59

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository cuellarfr/design-skills (54 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 4,076 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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