design-doc-generate

design-doc-generate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabriqaai/specs.md. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,232 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-document generator for complex development tasks in a workflow called Validate mode. It records the proposed approach, important decisions and their reasons, technical details, risks, and implementation steps before work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare reviewable plans for difficult features or changes. It supports decisions about system components, application programming interfaces, risks, and the order of implementation.
Why use it?
It gives people a concrete plan to review before code is written. This helps uncover unclear requirements, risky choices, and missing steps early.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to prepare reviewable plans for difficult features or changes. It supports decisions about system components, application programming interfaces, risks, and the order of implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabriqaai/specs.md/design-doc-generate
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 fabriqaai/specs.md --skill design-doc-generate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabriqaai/specs.md

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,232 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

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 $0.00026 $0.01232
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00616
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00123

Measured 9d ago against content hash 778a7576d489, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-doc-generate 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 9d 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.

src/flows/fire/agents/planner/skills/design-doc-generate/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.

<degrees_of_freedom> LOW — Follow the design doc structure precisely. Decisions must have rationale. </degrees_of_freedom>

<output_format>
  | Decision | Choice | Rationale |
  |----------|--------|-----------|
  | ... | ... | ... |
</output_format>
<output_format>
  | Risk | Impact | Mitigation |
  |------|--------|------------|
  | ... | ... | ... |
</output_format>
    ## Summary
    {brief description}

    ## Key Decisions
    {decisions table}

    ## Technical Approach
    {component diagram, API contracts}

    ## Risks
    {risks table}

    ## Implementation Checklist
    {ordered steps}

    ---
    This is Checkpoint 1 of Validate mode.

    Approve design? [Y/n/edit]
  </output>
</checkpoint>
    Route to Builder for Checkpoint 2 (implementation plan)? [Y/n]
  </output>
</check>
<check if="response == edit">
  <ask>What changes are needed?</ask>
  <action>Incorporate feedback</action>
  <goto step="8"/>
</check>
<check if="response == n">
  <output>Design rejected. What concerns need to be addressed?</output>
  <action>Gather feedback, revise approach</action>
  <goto step="3"/>
</check>

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 157 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 778a7576d489

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design-doc-generate is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabriqaai/specs.md (208 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,232 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 2026-08-30.

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