design-leadership

design-leadership is a skill for Claude Code from Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste. It costs 18 tokens per session (251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to leading a design team across quality, hiring, growth, strategy, collaboration, and team culture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to establish review and critique habits, create growth paths, work with engineering and product leaders, and connect design investment to business results.
Why use it?
It helps design leaders scale their impact through the team instead of relying only on their own design output.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the edt plugin — 117 skills, 80 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to establish review and critique habits, create growth paths, work with engineering and product leaders, and connect design investment to business results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/everything-design-taste/design-leadership
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 Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste --skill design-leadership
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install edt, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 117 skills, 80 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 251 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 $0.00018 $0.00251
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00125
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00025

Measured 8d ago against content hash 226a59f21a2e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-leadership 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 8d 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-leadership/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Design Leadership

Design Leader Responsibilities

Craft

  • Set the quality bar.
  • Review work regularly.
  • Stay close enough to the work to have informed opinions.
  • Know when to let go of control.

People

  • Hire for potential, not just current skill.
  • Create growth paths for ICs and managers.
  • Give feedback frequently (not just at reviews).
  • Shield the team from politics while being politically aware.

Strategy

  • Connect design to business outcomes.
  • Advocate for user research budget.
  • Build relationships with engineering and product leaders.
  • Make the case for design investment with data.

Culture

  • Establish critique habits.
  • Celebrate good work publicly.
  • Create psychological safety for creative risk-taking.
  • Document principles and share widely.

Common Mistakes

  • Being the best individual contributor instead of making the team better.
  • Hiring people just like yourself.
  • Over-processing (too many reviews, too many approvals).
  • Not saying no to protect team capacity.
  • Losing touch with actual user research.
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. 8d ago First seen · 40 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 226a59f21a2e

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design-leadership is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 251 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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