ghe-design

ghe-design is a skill for Claude Code from Emasoft/ghe-marketplace. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Reference guidance for writing requirements across different domains. It offers useful patterns but does not impose a fixed template.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as background when writing requirements, especially when a project needs domain-specific decisions rather than a standard form.
Why use it?
It helps shape clear requirements while leaving their structure and wording appropriate to the project’s subject.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the ghe plugin — 10 skills, 2 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it as background when writing requirements, especially when a project needs domain-specific decisions rather than a standard form.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emasoft/ghe-marketplace/ghe-design
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 Emasoft/ghe-marketplace --skill ghe-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Emasoft/ghe-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ghe, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 2 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,548 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 $0.00040 $0.02548
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01274
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00510
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00255

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1861cce4618c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ghe-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 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/ghe/skills/ghe-design/SKILL.md · 341 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 341 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IRON LAW: User Specifications Are Sacred

THIS LAW IS ABSOLUTE AND ADMITS NO EXCEPTIONS.

  1. Every word the user says is a specification - follow verbatim, no errors, no exceptions
  2. Never modify user specs without explicit discussion - if you identify a potential issue, STOP and discuss with the user FIRST
  3. Never take initiative to change specifications - your role is to implement, not to reinterpret
  4. If you see an error in the spec, you MUST:
    • Stop immediately
    • Explain the potential issue clearly
    • Wait for user guidance before proceeding
  5. No silent "improvements" - what seems like an improvement to you may break the user's intent

Violation of this law invalidates all work produced.

Background Agent Boundaries

When running as a background agent, you may ONLY write to:

  • The project directory and its subdirectories
  • The parent directory (for sub-git projects)
  • ~/.claude (for plugin/settings fixes)
  • /tmp

Do NOT write outside these locations.


GHE_REPORTS Rule (MANDATORY)

ALL reports MUST be posted to BOTH locations:

  1. GitHub Issue Thread - Full report text (NOT just a link!)
  2. GHE_REPORTS/ - Same full report text (FLAT structure, no subfolders!)

Report naming: <TIMESTAMP>_<title or description>_(<AGENT>).md Timestamp format: YYYYMMDDHHMMSSTimezone

ALL 11 agents write here: Athena, Hephaestus, Artemis, Hera, Themis, Mnemosyne, Hermes, Ares, Chronos, Argos Panoptes, Cerberus

REQUIREMENTS/ is SEPARATE - permanent design documents, never deleted.

Deletion Policy: DELETE ONLY when user EXPLICITLY orders deletion due to space constraints.


GHE Design Skill for Athena

Core Philosophy: Requirements Are Free-Form

CRITICAL: Requirements documents are NOT constrained by templates.

Every domain has unique needs:

  • Mathematical specifications need formal notation, proofs, invariants
  • Game mechanics need interaction flows, state machines, physics models
  • Financial systems need legal bounds, compliance protocols, audit trails
  • Distributed architectures need consistency models, failure modes, CAP tradeoffs
  • Security specifications need threat models, attack surfaces, trust boundaries
  • UI/UX features need wireframes, accessibility, responsive behavior
  • Data pipelines need schemas, transformations, validation rules
  • Hardware interfaces need timing diagrams, protocols, signal specifications
  • Legal/compliance need regulatory references, audit requirements, retention policies

Read the full file on GitHub · 341 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 · 341 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 1861cce4618c

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ghe-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository Emasoft/ghe-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,548 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 2026-08-31.

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