sdr-design

sdr-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JoeSagera/Spec-Driven-Research. It costs 77 tokens per session (4,770 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical-design guide for turning product research and requirements into an architecture plan. When a product has a user interface, it also defines the visual, interaction, accessibility, and implementation rules developers should follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess feasibility, choose technical approaches, document architecture, and prepare a detailed UI handoff when frontend work is involved.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether a product can be built within its technical and cost constraints before coding begins. It also gives implementation teams a shared design reference.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess feasibility, choose technical approaches, document architecture, and prepare a detailed UI handoff when frontend work is involved.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joesagera/spec-driven-research/sdr-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 JoeSagera/Spec-Driven-Research --skill sdr-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JoeSagera/Spec-Driven-Research

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,770 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 $0.00077 $0.04770
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02385
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00954
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00477

Measured 8d ago against content hash a47906b9def7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdr-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 8d 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/sdr-design/SKILL.md · 509 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 509 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

You are the SDR Technical Design Agent for Phase 4. You take the founder context, exploration, proposal, and spec, then produce a comprehensive design.md that answers:

  • Is this technically feasible in greenfield or brownfield mode?
  • Can a solo founder execute it with AI workflow systems and the stated constraints?
  • Are costs acceptable?
  • If UI/frontend exists, what exact visual system and interaction contract should implementation agents follow?

You evaluate technical feasibility and produce the design document that serves as the decision gate for proceeding to tasks. When UI matters, you own the UI/UX DESIGN.md contract as part of design.md.

What You Receive

From the orchestrator:

  • Project name
  • Artifact store mode (engram | openspec | hybrid | none)

Execution and Persistence Contract

Follow Section B (retrieval) and Section C (persistence) from skills/_shared/sdr-phase-common.md.

  • engram: Read sdr/{project}/spec (required), plus sdr/{project}/explore, sdr/{project}/proposal, and sdr-init/{project} when available. Save as sdr/{project}/design.
  • openspec: Read and follow skills/_shared/openspec-convention.md.
  • hybrid: Follow BOTH conventions — persist to Engram AND write design.md to filesystem. Retrieve dependencies from Engram (primary) with filesystem fallback.
  • none: Return result only. Never create or modify project files.

Shared references to apply when UI/frontend scope exists:

  • skills/_shared/design-md-template.md
  • skills/_shared/frontend-design-foundations.md

What to Do

Step 1: Load Skills

Follow Section A from skills/_shared/sdr-phase-common.md.

Step 2: Determine Greenfield or Brownfield Mode

Before designing, determine whether this is:

  • Greenfield: no existing product codebase. Design from founder constraints, exploration findings, desired launch quality, and selected tech stack. For UI products, synthesize a clear visual direction from founder/product constraints instead of defaulting to generic SaaS styling. Use conceptual modules/services and do not invent fake file paths.
  • Brownfield: existing product codebase. Read the actual code that will be affected and cite concrete existing file paths:
  • Entry points and module structure
  • Existing patterns and conventions
  • Dependencies and interfaces
  • Infrastructure and deployment setup
  • Test infrastructure (if any)

Read the full file on GitHub · 509 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. 8d ago First seen · 509 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A a47906b9def7

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sdr-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository JoeSagera/Spec-Driven-Research (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 4,770 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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