technical-design-creation-skill

technical-design-creation-skill is a skill for OpenCode from darellchua2/opencode-config-template. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,046 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A template and workflow for writing a Technical Design Document, which explains how a software change should be built. It covers architecture, data models, API contracts, decision records, diagrams, and operational requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn feature specifications into engineering designs before coding, including system structure, data storage, API behavior, and recorded architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It fills the gap between a list of requirements and implementation by making the proposed design explicit and tied to the existing codebase.

Skill for OpenCode

Written for OpenCode: installed under .opencode/. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to turn feature specifications into engineering designs before coding, including system structure, data storage, API behavior, and recorded architecture decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/darellchua2/opencode-config-template/technical-design-creation-skill
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add darellchua2/opencode-config-template --skill technical-design-creation-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darellchua2/opencode-config-template

Made for: OpenCode.

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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 3,046 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.03046
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01523
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00609
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00305

Measured 4d ago against content hash 66accb684a88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-design-creation-skill 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 4d 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.

opencode_app/.opencode/skills/technical-design-creation-skill/SKILL.md · 377 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 377 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What I do

I provide a structured Technical Design Document (TDD) creation template — the engineering "how" stage of the document ladder, filling the gap between the SRS (requirements) and implementation.

  1. TDD Template — 7-part structure (System Context / Architecture / Data Model / API Surface / Architecture Decision Records / Sequence Diagrams / Non-Functional Design)
  2. docs/technical-design/ Naming Convention — ticket-linked files (TDD-{key}.md)
  3. Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) — durable record of WHY each architecture decision was made
  4. CodeGraph-grounded design — architecture must be validated against the actual codebase, not assumptions

Position in the document ladder: Vision (customer-facing) → BRD (sponsor/stakeholder) → SRS (internal functional/technical requirements) → TDD (this template: engineering design) → implementation. The TDD translates the SRS's functional requirements into architecture, data model, and API contracts.

Name note: "TDD" here means Technical Design Document — NOT Test Driven Development. To avoid collision, the authoring subagent is named technical-design-specialist-subagent (not tdd-specialist), distinct from the existing tdd-subagent (Test Driven Development) and tdd-workflow-skill.

When to use me

Use this skill when:

  • An SRS or feature spec needs to be translated into a concrete engineering design
  • Someone says "technical design", "architecture document", "system design", "design spec", "create technical design"
  • Architecture decisions need to be captured as durable ADRs (context → decision → consequences)
  • The team needs a shared blueprint before implementation begins

Do NOT use for: requirements (use srs-creation-skill/brd-creation-skill); customer-facing vision (use vision-creation-skill); running tests (use tdd-workflow-skill — different TDD).

Trigger phrases: "technical design", "architecture document", "system design", "technical design doc", "design spec", "create technical design", "design the architecture"

Read the full file on GitHub · 377 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. 4d ago First seen · 377 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 66accb684a88

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technical-design-creation-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository darellchua2/opencode-config-template (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,046 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 2026-09-03.