quick-design

quick-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios. It costs 57 tokens per session (2,521 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short design specification for a small game change, such as adjusting balance, changing behaviour, or adding a minor mechanic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for small changes that need written direction before implementation.
Why use it?
It records the reasoning for a change without requiring a full game design document, or GDD.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Claude Code Game Studios is a setup that organizes Claude Code into a coordinated game-development team of specialized AI agents. It supports game projects across design, programming, art, audio, narrative, quality assurance, and production, with skills and workflows for coordinating that work.

Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios · 24,822 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/donchitos/claude-code-game-studios/quick-design
Any agent
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill quick-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,521 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00057 $0.02521
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01260
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00504
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00252

Measured 2d ago against content hash e1274daaef2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quick-design 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/quick-design/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quick Design

This is the lightweight design path for changes that don't need a full GDD. Full GDD authoring via /design-system is the heavyweight path. Use this skill for work under approximately 4 hours of implementation — tuning adjustments, minor behavioral tweaks, small additions to existing systems, or standalone features too small to warrant a full document.

Output: design/quick-specs/[name]-[date].md

When to run: Anytime a change is too small for /design-system but too meaningful to implement without a written rationale.


1. Classify the Change

First, read the argument and determine which category this change falls into:

  • Tuning — changing numbers or balance values in an existing system with no behavioral change (most minimal path). Example: "increase jump height from 5 to 6 units", "reduce enemy patrol speed by 10%".
  • Tweak — a small behavioral change to an existing system that introduces no new states, branches, or systems. Example: "make dash invincible on frame 1", "allow combo to cancel into roll".
  • Addition — adding a small mechanic to an existing system that may introduce 1-2 new states or interactions. Example: "add a parry window to the block mechanic", "add a charge variant to the basic attack".
  • New Small System — a standalone feature small enough that it has no existing GDD and is under approximately one week of implementation work. Example: "achievement popup system", "simple day/night visual cycle".

If the change does NOT fit these categories — it introduces a new system with significant cross-system dependencies, requires more than one week of implementation, or fundamentally alters an existing system's core rules — stop and redirect to /design-system instead.

If there is no argument, ask the user to describe the change (plain text prompt), then classify it using the criteria above.

Present the inferred classification using AskUserQuestion:

  • Prompt: "I've classified this as [inferred type] — [brief reason]. Is that correct?"
  • Options:
    • [A] Yes — [inferred type] is correct
    • [B] Tuning — changing numbers or balance values only
    • [C] Tweak — small behavioral change to an existing system
    • [D] Addition — adding a small mechanic to an existing system
    • [E] New Small System — standalone feature, under one week of work
    • [F] This is too large — redirect me to /design-system

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 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. 2d ago First seen · 296 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A e1274daaef2d

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quick-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios (24,822 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 2,521 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 2026-09-03.

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