design-fundamentals

design-fundamentals is a skill for Claude Code from danielraffel/generous-corp-marketplace. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,134 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-thinking guide for understanding user needs, generating ideas, choosing among them, making prototypes, and improving them through feedback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when exploring a product problem, comparing possible solutions, creating interface mockups or concept art, and planning design iterations.
Why use it?
It gives design discussions a defined sequence and records outputs such as a design brief, idea cards, and prototypes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the design-partner plugin — 1 skill, 4 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when exploring a product problem, comparing possible solutions, creating interface mockups or concept art, and planning design iterations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielraffel/generous-corp-marketplace/design-fundamentals
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 danielraffel/generous-corp-marketplace --skill design-fundamentals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielraffel/generous-corp-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-partner, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 4 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,134 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 $0.00056 $0.01134
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00567
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00113

Measured 12d ago against content hash fdbe08d424c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-fundamentals 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 12d 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.

plugins/design-partner/skills/design-fundamentals/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Thinking Fundamentals

For Claude: This skill provides foundational design thinking knowledge to help users understand the Design Partner workflow and methodology.

Core Design Thinking Process

Design Partner follows a structured 5-phase approach:

1. Context Capture

  • Goal: Gather essential problem context
  • Questions: Who is this for? What job needs to be done? What constraints matter?
  • Output: Design Brief with problem, users, constraints, and success criteria

2. Divergent Exploration

  • Goal: Generate multiple solution directions
  • Approach: Explore different assumptions, perspectives, and approaches
  • Output: 5+ idea cards with diverse core assumptions

3. Convergent Selection

  • Goal: Choose the most promising direction(s)
  • Approach: Evaluate ideas based on feasibility, desirability, and viability
  • Output: Selected idea(s) for deeper exploration

4. Visualization & Prototyping

  • Goal: Create concrete artifacts to explore the idea
  • Approach: Generate UI mockups, concept art, user scenarios
  • Output: High-resolution images via DALL-E 3 or Gemini Imagen

5. Critique & Iteration

  • Goal: Identify risks and refine the approach
  • Approach: Systematic risk analysis and rapid iteration
  • Output: Refined concept with addressed concerns

Ideation Techniques

Divergent Thinking (Broadening)

  • Reframe the problem from different perspectives
  • Challenge core assumptions
  • Explore extreme constraints or inversions
  • Consider different user types or contexts

Convergent Thinking (Narrowing)

  • Evaluate based on impact and feasibility
  • Force-rank options
  • Identify must-have vs nice-to-have features
  • Select direction based on success criteria

Visual Exploration

Natural Language

Simply say "show me what this looks like" and Design Partner will:

  1. Extract context from your conversation
  2. Build an enhanced prompt from your Design Brief
  3. Generate a high-resolution image
  4. Link it to your design session

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 12d ago First seen · 157 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A fdbe08d424c9

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design-fundamentals is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielraffel/generous-corp-marketplace (11 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,134 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 2026-08-30.

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