design-brief

design-brief is a skill for Claude Code from julianoczkowski/designer-skills. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,242 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An interactive assistant for producing a design brief, which is a written plan for a feature, page, or user experience.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan onboarding flows, dashboards, settings pages, marketing pages, or other interface work before implementation.
Why use it?
It helps turn a rough idea into documented decisions about the audience, interface direction, existing code, and constraints.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the designer-skills plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan onboarding flows, dashboards, settings pages, marketing pages, or other interface work before implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/julianoczkowski/designer-skills/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 julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill design-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/julianoczkowski/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designer-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 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 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,242 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 30 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 30 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00058 $0.01242
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00621
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00124

Measured 12d ago against content hash e5b49117e5df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 12d 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.

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.

This skill creates a design brief through structured conversation. You may skip steps if they are not necessary.

Example prompts

  • "Write a brief for the onboarding flow"
  • "I need to plan a settings page before I start building"
  • "Help me define the direction for a marketing landing page"
  • "Brief this: a dashboard that shows project health metrics"

Process

  1. Ask the user for a detailed description of what they want to build, who it is for, and any constraints or ideas they already have.

  2. Explore the existing codebase to understand the current state. Scan for each of the following specifically:

    • CSS variables / tokens: files named tokens.css, variables.css, theme.css, or :root declarations with custom properties
    • Tailwind config: tailwind.config.js or tailwind.config.ts, check theme.extend for custom values
    • UI framework themes: Material UI createTheme, Chakra extendTheme, shadcn globals.css and components.json
    • Component directories: components/, ui/, shared/, or any folder containing reusable UI pieces
    • Storybook: .storybook/ directory or *.stories.* files indicating a documented component library
    • Design token files: JSON token files (Style Dictionary format, Figma token exports)
    • Package.json UI dependencies: tailwindcss, @mui/material, @chakra-ui/react, @radix-ui, lucide-react, framer-motion, etc.
    • Font loading: Google Fonts links in HTML, @font-face declarations, font imports in CSS/config
    • Existing pages/layouts: route files, layout components, page templates that show established patterns
    • If components exist, treat them as the starting vocabulary. The brief should extend, not replace.
  3. Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of the design until you reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

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. 12d ago First seen · 121 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A e5b49117e5df

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design-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianoczkowski/designer-skills (551 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,242 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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