design

design is a skill for Claude Code from joao-aires/agent-skills-public. It costs 47 tokens per session (739 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-design guide for defining user interactions, application programming interfaces, data and state behavior, or system architecture before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design screens and navigation, shared components, API contracts, data transitions, or architecture alternatives, with wireframes when layout needs clarification.
Why use it?
It makes important choices and trade-offs explicit, reducing the chance of building the wrong flow, contract, or system boundary.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design screens and navigation, shared components, API contracts, data transitions, or architecture alternatives, with wireframes when layout needs clarification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joao-aires/agent-skills-public/design
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 joao-aires/agent-skills-public --skill design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joao-aires/agent-skills-public

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 739 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 $0.00047 $0.00739
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00296
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00074

Measured yesterday against content hash 056a25bc2594, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 yesterday.

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/development/skills/design/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design

Read task guidance. Use system-design after product refinement or when the feature changes consequential architecture, before dependent planning/implementation. When data or authority boundaries change, seek relevant security/privacy design expertise from available descriptions; retain the affected authority, data-flow and verification reasoning when a specialist is absent. Load the optional stack/domain guidance selected by task guidance only when relevant and available.

Establish the audience, intended outcome, accepted decisions and affected boundaries from supplied references and repository evidence. Choose the supporting methods through task guidance; keep the result proportionate to the uncertainty.

Design the affected interface

For UI work establish contextual visual direction, flows, state and affected-surface coverage. Choose methods for the unresolved question:

Question Relevant expertise or artifact
Product-specific visual direction Available visual design expertise
Flow, state and behavior Available interaction design expertise
Layout or navigation uncertainty Text, wireframes, Figma or local prototypes, according to the question and available tools
Rendered quality or consequential language Available interface assessment or interface-language expertise
A question needing participant evidence Available usability research expertise

Work through the main user task before polishing a screen. Determine what the user needs to understand, which action should be easiest to find, and what feedback explains the result. Use realistic content and the important empty, busy, error and permission states so the layout is designed for the application people will actually use.

Develop a representative part of the experience far enough to judge the direction. If navigation is uncertain, a wireframe may answer the question; if typography, density or visual identity is uncertain, inspect a rendered design. Explain why the chosen direction suits the product and what an alternative would cost. Once it works, carry its layout, tokens and component behavior into the other affected surfaces.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. yesterday Changed · +27 lines 056a25bc2594
  2. 2d ago Changed 2be821c94552
  3. 3d ago Changed · +2 lines 819355bac438
  4. 5d ago Changed 963d2767a356
  5. 7d ago First seen · 22 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A bad33e527327

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design is a skill published in the GitHub repository joao-aires/agent-skills-public (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 739 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-15.

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