design

design is a skill for Claude Code from jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins. It costs 115 tokens per session (13,562 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for turning workflow requirements into an AI workflow plan. It documents the structure, autonomy, coordination method, steps, reusable skills, and agent designs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design AI workflows, classify their steps, choose how they are coordinated, identify needed skills, and define agents.
Why use it?
It gives you a written design before implementation, helping expose architecture decisions and gaps early. It is intended for requirements documents that already describe the workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the handsonai plugin — 13 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install handsonai

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install handsonai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 13,562 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 5.1 $0.00115 $0.13562
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.06781
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.02712
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.01356

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2b2f48ab98dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d 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/handsonai/skills/design/SKILL.md · 612 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 612 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow Design

Take a Workflow Requirements document (produced by Step 2 — Deconstruct) and produce the Design deliverable: a Design Spec that captures architecture decisions, autonomy assessment, orchestration mechanism, per-step classifications (step-driven) or capability domain mapping (goal-driven), skill candidates, and agent blueprints.

Bundled references — read at the step that calls for them

File When to read it
references/goal-driven-path.md At Step 1, the moment the Workflow Requirements shows Definition Type: Goal-Driven (or legacy Outcome-Driven)
references/spec-template.md At Step 9, before assembling the Design Spec — the spec's structure exists only in this file
references/self-test-checklist.md At Step 9, before running the self-test — the checklist items exist only in this file

This SKILL.md deliberately does not restate the spec's section structure or the checklist items. A spec assembled without reading the template will have wrong headings and a wrong spec_version, and Build's frontmatter parse will fail on it.

Source of truth: The Workflow Requirements document is canonical. The Design Spec must NOT restate sections that already exist there (Goal, Metadata, Context Inventory, Acceptance Criteria, Example Scenarios, Human Gates, Steps Overview). Instead, reference the Workflow Requirements file. The Design Spec adds only what Design produces: architecture decisions, per-step or per-domain building-block classifications, skill candidates, agent configurations, integration options, model recommendations, safety mitigations, and implementation order.

Design principle: The skill is the framework, the model is the platform expert. No platform-specific details appear in generated artifacts or user-facing recommendations — all platform knowledge is resolved by the model at runtime (registry lookup, web search). The skill's own procedure may branch on detected environment capabilities (plan mode, structured-question tools, web access, persistent workspace) — detect and adapt; never assume a capability exists because it exists on one surface.

Read the full file on GitHub · 612 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 612 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 2b2f48ab98dd

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design is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 13,562 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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