design-review

design-review is a skill for Claude Code from me2resh/apexyard. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,851 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of a technical design, migration plan, or feature specification before implementation begins. It checks whether the proposed architecture is sound and whether risks and trade-offs are clearly recorded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Assessing non-functional requirements, design patterns, technical debt, migration safety, risks, trade-offs, and links between a design and the work it supports.
Why use it?
It catches architectural problems before they become code and separates design review from design authorship. Security-sensitive designs can receive an additional security review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Assessing non-functional requirements, design patterns, technical debt, migration safety, risks, trade-offs, and links between a design and the work it supports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/me2resh/apexyard/design-review
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 me2resh/apexyard --skill design-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/me2resh/apexyard

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,851 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 54
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
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 $0.00044 $0.01851
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00925
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00370
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00185

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7e098a10a151, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-review 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 11d 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-review/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/design-review — Solution Architecture Review

Review a design artifact — a technical design doc, a migration AgDR, or a feature spec / PRD — for architectural soundness before any code is built against it. This is the non-code analog of /code-review: where Rex reviews a code PR, Tariq (the Solution Architect) reviews the design.

The Tech Lead authors the design; Tariq reviews it. Authoring and reviewing are deliberately separate — an author reviewing their own design is the gap this role closes.

Activated agent + role

When /design-review runs:

  1. Primary reviewer: the Solution Architect agent (Tariq) at .claude/agents/solution-architect.md — reviews the design against the architecture review lens (NFRs, patterns, tech debt, AgDR linkage, risk, trade-offs, traceability, migration safety) and discovers + applies adopter handbooks exactly as Rex does.
  2. Escalation: the Head of Engineering — for enterprise / cross-project / new-tech-stack concerns that exceed the Solution Architect's remit.
  3. Conditional Security Auditor: if the design touches auth / crypto / secrets / user data, chain /security-review for the deeper pass.

See .claude/rules/role-triggers.md for the full activation protocol. Per the role's isolated-work-class, the reviewer runs as a spawned sub-agent.

Usage

/design-review 42                         # review the design in PR #42
/design-review 42 your-org/your-repo      # specify the repo
/design-review docs/designs/checkout.md   # doc-only review (no PR yet)

Process

0. Write the active-reviewer marker (REQUIRED — me2resh/apexyard#843, when reviewing a PR)

Before spawning the Solution Architect agent (Tariq) for a PR review, write the active-reviewer session marker. It records that this review pass is the sanctioned one and suppresses warn-review-marker-write.sh's advisory warning on the *-architecture.approved write (same convention as /code-review's rex marker; that hook warns and never blocks since #1026 — AgDR-0111). Use the SAME resolved owner/repo from step 1 (below) — the sibling-repo resolution in split-portfolio v2 matters here too. At skill entry:

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 11d ago First seen · 129 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 7e098a10a151

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design-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository me2resh/apexyard (498 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,851 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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