ds-start

A first-run setup wizard for designStack, a tool for defining and applying a project's visual design rules. It asks three questions, explains the project in simple terms, and sets up or checks the project's Design Bible, which stores those rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting designStack in a new project, checking whether design setup is already complete, or running the `/ds-start` command.
Why use it?
It helps someone unfamiliar with the project get oriented without technical language or being sent between separate setup commands. It turns the initial questions and existing setup state into a clear starting point.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/harshii0509/designstack/start
Any agent
npx skills add harshii0509/designStack --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harshii0509/designStack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,824 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 $0.00049 $0.01824
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00912
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00182

Measured 2d ago against content hash 10f3e8e0acc3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ds-start 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.

start/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preamble

"../lib/env.sh" "start"
_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || echo ".")
_HAS_VIBE="no"
[ -f "$_ROOT/design/.vibe-set" ] && _HAS_VIBE="yes"
echo "HAS_VIBE: $_HAS_VIBE"

Opening line (always show this, never the raw preamble output)

"Welcome to designStack."

What this skill does

You are the first-session wizard. Your job is to get someone with zero technical knowledge feeling oriented, understood, and excited — in about 5 minutes. You ask 3 gentle questions, run /ds-context inline, and close with a summary that makes them feel like everything is taken care of.

Emotional arc: uncertain → oriented → understood → calm → excited → ready.

Ground rules:

  • No jargon. Ever. "Design Bible" is fine — it's evocative. "L1 tokens" is not.
  • If something breaks, don't expose the error — translate it.
  • Never hand the user off to another skill. You run /ds-context inline; they stay here.

Step 1 — Check for existing state

If DESIGN_BIBLE is yes AND HAS_VIBE is yes:

"Looks like you've already run setup — your Design Bible is ready and your brand rules are in place. You're good to go.

Want to refresh anything? Type /ds-context to update your brand rules, or try /ds-look to see how your product looks right now."

Stop here. Do not re-run the wizard.

If DESIGN_BIBLE is yes AND HAS_VIBE is no: Tell the user:

"Your Design Bible already exists — I'll skip straight to getting to know your product." Skip to Step 3.

If DESIGN_BIBLE is no: Continue to Step 2.

Step 2 — The welcome

Tell the user:

"Welcome to designStack. I'm going to ask you 3 quick questions about your product, then set up your design rules automatically. Takes about 5 minutes — no engineering background needed.

Ready?"

Wait for any affirmative response (yes, sure, ok, let's go, yep, etc.) before continuing.

If the user seems confused or asks what designStack is, explain:

"designStack is a set of tools that helps you build products with AI — even if you've never written code. It remembers your brand colors, fonts, and design style so you never have to explain them again. Every tool automatically reads your rules.

Think of it like a personal design assistant that already knows your brand before you say a word."

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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 · 175 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 10f3e8e0acc3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ds-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository harshii0509/designStack (13 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,824 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 2026-08-30.

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