kiro-validate-design

kiro-validate-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gotalab/cc-sdd. It costs 13 tokens per session (1,075 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive review process for checking whether a technical design is ready to implement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review requirements and design documents, identify up to three critical issues, assess strengths, and give concrete improvement actions.
Why use it?
It exposes the most important unresolved concerns before coding begins and produces a clear go or no-go decision.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to review requirements and design documents, identify up to three critical issues, assess strengths, and give concrete improvement actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gotalab/cc-sdd/kiro-validate-design
About the project

cc-sdd is a spec-driven development workflow for coding agents: it turns approved software specifications into requirements, designs, task plans, and extended autonomous implementation. Developers use it across several AI coding agents, with independent review and task-level continuation for long-running work. The catalogue entries provide commands, skills, agents, and instructions for using this workflow.

gotalab/cc-sdd · 3,655 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.

Any agent
npx skills add gotalab/cc-sdd --skill kiro-validate-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gotalab/cc-sdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,075 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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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 $0.00013 $0.01075
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00537
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00108

Measured 9d ago against content hash cafff16570c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kiro-validate-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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

tools/cc-sdd/templates/agents/antigravity-skills/skills/kiro-validate-design/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Design Validation

<background_information>

  • Mission: Conduct interactive quality review of technical design to ensure readiness for implementation
  • Success Criteria:
    • Critical issues identified (maximum 3 most important concerns)
    • Balanced assessment with strengths recognized
    • Clear GO/NO-GO decision with rationale
    • Actionable feedback for improvements if needed </background_information>

Execution Steps

  1. Gather Context:
    • Read {{KIRO_DIR}}/specs/$1/spec.json for language and metadata
    • Read {{KIRO_DIR}}/specs/$1/requirements.md for requirements
    • Read {{KIRO_DIR}}/specs/$1/design.md for design document
    • Core steering context: product.md, tech.md, structure.md
    • Additional steering files only when directly relevant to architecture boundaries, integrations, runtime prerequisites, domain rules, security/performance constraints, or team conventions that affect implementation readiness
    • Relevant local agent skills or playbooks only when they clearly match the feature's host environment or use case and provide review-relevant context
Parallel Research

The following research areas are independent and can be executed in parallel:

  1. Context & rules loading: Spec documents, core steering, task-relevant extra steering, relevant local agent skills/playbooks, and rules/design-review.md from this skill's directory for review criteria
  2. Codebase pattern survey: Gather existing architecture patterns, naming conventions, and component structure from the codebase to use as reference during review

If multi-agent is enabled, spawn sub-agents for each area above. Otherwise execute sequentially.

After all parallel research completes, synthesize findings for review.

  1. Execute Design Review:
    • Reference conversation history when available: leverage prior requirements discussion and user's stated design intent
    • Follow design-review.md process: Analysis → Critical Issues → Strengths → GO/NO-GO
    • Limit to 3 most important concerns
    • Engage interactively with user — ask clarifying questions, propose alternatives
    • Use language specified in spec.json for output

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 9d ago First seen · 104 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A cafff16570c0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kiro-validate-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository gotalab/cc-sdd (3,655 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,075 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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