design

design is a skill for Claude Code from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. It costs 141 tokens per session (1,407 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided tool for designing an evaluation suite for a language-model application or coding-agent skill. It interviews the user about measurable goals and creates evaluation documents and test cases in the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It can design evaluations for an AI-powered application or for a custom coding-agent skill, including criteria files and evaluation cases.
Why use it?
It helps turn an unclear evaluation request into concrete criteria and reusable tests for checking AI behavior.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the evals plugin — 2 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/design
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install evals, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,407 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00141 $0.01407
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.00704
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00141

Measured today against content hash 05ee9de55730, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 today.

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/evals/skills/design/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design an evaluation suite

Guides the consumer from "I want to evaluate X" to committed artifacts: a success-criteria document and a graded eval suite. Method follows Anthropic's official evaluation guidance — load /evals:methodology reference files as each phase needs them (they carry the distilled source).

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS names the target. Two shapes:

  • app (or a path/description of an LLM-powered feature) — evals for the consumer's own LLM-based application behavior.
  • skill <name> — evals for a consumer-authored Claude Code skill, emitted as evals/evals.json next to that skill.

No argument → ask which target, with one example of each.

Phase 1 — success criteria (before any cases)

Interview until each criterion is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant (success-criteria.md):

  1. What does success look like, concretely? Reject unmeasurable phrasings by proposing a measurable rewrite ("good answers" → "≥90% of answers judged correct against their rubric").
  2. Which dimensions matter? Walk the eight (fidelity, consistency, relevance/coherence, tone/style, privacy, context use, latency, price); keep the ones with a real user need. Most targets are multidimensional — press for at least fidelity plus one guardrail dimension.
  3. What is achievable? Anchor each target to a baseline (current behavior, prior experiment, or a published benchmark); when no baseline exists, record the first run AS the baseline.

Write the result to docs/eval-criteria/<target>.md in the consumer repo (create the directory if absent; respect an existing consumer convention for criteria docs if one is documented in the consumer's own CLAUDE.md or rules). Each criterion: dimension, metric, target number/scale, rationale line.

Phase 2 — eval suite

Per criterion, pick the cheapest reliable grading method (grading.md, recipes.md): code-graded where the output can be constrained to allow it; LLM-graded with a tight rubric and constrained verdict otherwise; human grading only with stated justification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today Changed · +3 lines 05ee9de55730
  2. 2d ago First seen · 101 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A c2335454dd84

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design is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 1,407 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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