design-dialogue

design-dialogue is a skill for Claude Code from josstei/maestro-orchestrate. It costs 13 tokens per session (45 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured conversation method for deciding how to design a complex engineering change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss alternatives, settle the design, and prepare complex work for planning.
Why use it?
It helps clarify requirements and resolve design questions before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the maestro plugin — 19 skills, 33 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to discuss alternatives, settle the design, and prepare complex work for planning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/josstei/maestro-orchestrate/design-dialogue
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 josstei/maestro-orchestrate --skill design-dialogue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/josstei/maestro-orchestrate

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install maestro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 33 agents, 1 MCP server.

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.

agentmods badge for design-dialogue

README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 45 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 $0.00013 $0.00045
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00018
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00009
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00005

Measured 10d ago against content hash 09838d05ab1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-dialogue 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 10d 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.

claude/skills/design-dialogue/SKILL.md · 8 lines

What it actually says

Methodology loaded via MCP. Call get_skill_content(resources: ["design-dialogue"]).

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. 10d ago First seen · 8 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 09838d05ab1f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-dialogue is a skill published in the GitHub repository josstei/maestro-orchestrate (484 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 45 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-07.

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