claude-design-brief

claude-design-brief is a skill for Claude Code from ivy00johns/Skill-Madness. It costs 179 tokens per session (2,285 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt-writing aid for Claude Design, the visual design and prototyping tool at claude.ai. It creates a detailed brief that tells the tool what to draw without needing a long question-and-answer exchange.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to request high-detail mockups, interactive prototypes, or several design directions on a visual canvas.
Why use it?
It removes the ambiguity that can make a design tool pause to ask about layout, style, colours, type, devices, and other project choices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the skill-madness plugin — 80 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to request high-detail mockups, interactive prototypes, or several design directions on a visual canvas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivy00johns/skill-madness/claude-design-brief
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 ivy00johns/Skill-Madness --skill claude-design-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivy00johns/Skill-Madness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skill-madness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 179 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,285 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 $0.00179 $0.02285
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.01143
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00457
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00229

Measured 11d ago against content hash cab8147f5a68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-design-brief 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 11d 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/workflows/claude-design-brief/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Design Brief

Naming exception: This skill's name starts with claude- — a prefix Anthropic reserves for first-party skills. Kept deliberately: the skill targets Claude Design specifically, and a name that doesn't say "claude" would be less discoverable. Per skills/meta/skill-writer/references/frontmatter-spec.md, skill-review WARNs but does not FAIL on this pattern when the skill genuinely targets the corresponding Anthropic product.

Produce paste-ready prompts for Claude Design (the artifact/design-canvas tool at claude.ai) that are vivid and project-specific enough that Claude Design has nothing left to ask — it opens its canvas and starts drawing on the first message.

The failure mode the skill exists to prevent: a prompt so vague that Claude Design interrogates scope, tone, palette, typography, hero, device, and a dozen other decisions one at a time. The fix is not to answer those questions in a labeled numbered list — it's to write a design brief dense enough with committed, specific opinion that the questions never arise. How you structure that brief should fit the project, not a template.

Announce at start: "Using claude-design-brief to write a paste-ready Claude Design prompt for [project]."

Sibling vs Mode Selection

This skill is the sibling of ui-brief (which targets Claude Code / production builds, not the Claude Design canvas). It runs in either with-brief mode (a UI-CHALLENGE.md already exists — translate it) or standalone mode (research → Claude Design directly). See references/usage-modes.md for the full comparison table, hallmarks of each mode, what they share, and how the greenfield/rebuild axis layers on top.

Coverage Guide — What Needs To Be In The Brief

These are the decisions Claude Design is likely to lack if you don't address them. Cover each one in whatever form fits the project — as prose, per-direction blocks, embedded in the opening framing, or wherever it lands most naturally. They do not need to be labeled or in any fixed order. The test is not "did I address all 12 categories by name" — it is "does this brief leave Claude Design nothing to ask."

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 11d ago First seen · 121 lines · 179 tokens per session scan A cab8147f5a68

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claude-design-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivy00johns/Skill-Madness (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 179 tokens to every session and 2,285 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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