cgs-design-system

cgs-design-system is a skill for Claude Code from merlinhu1/codex-game-studio. It costs 47 tokens per session (581 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A game-design documentation guide for Template Game. It records how a game system works, including rules, data, unusual cases, progression, player feedback, and checks for implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review a system design document in `design/`. It helps define balance settings, expected behavior, acceptance tests, risks, and who owns the next decision.
Why use it?
It turns an idea into a shared specification and exposes missing rules or edge cases before development goes too far.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to create or review a system design document in design/. It helps define balance settings, expected behavior, acceptance tests, risks, and who owns the next decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/merlinhu1/codex-game-studio/cgs-design-system
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add merlinhu1/codex-game-studio --skill cgs-design-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/merlinhu1/codex-game-studio

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 581 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 $0.00047 $0.00581
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00291
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00058

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2d4d73d3e46e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cgs-design-system 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 9d 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.

.agents/skills/cgs-design-system/SKILL.md · 78 lines

What it actually says

Codex Game Studio Design System

Use this skill for design system work in Template Game.

Objective

Author a system GDD with rules, data, edge cases, progression, feedback, and implementation acceptance tests.

Inputs

  • AGENTS.md
  • .codex/studio.json
  • task-relevant files named by the user or task record
  • design/gdd.md
  • docs/market-overview.md

Arguments

  • Objective or user request.
  • Target files, scenes, assets, or docs.
  • Constraints, deadlines, acceptance criteria, and verification command when known.

Procedure

  1. Clarify the requested author a system gdd with rules, data, edge cases, progression, feedback, and implementation acceptance tests. and identify the current project stage.
  2. Collect evidence for System Rules, Balance Levers, Edge Cases.
  3. Draft or review the artifact in small sections, keeping player experience and scope visible.
  4. Produce the requested artifact or review with clear file paths and verification evidence.

Write Targets

  • design/

Output Contract

  • Summary
  • System Rules
  • Balance Levers
  • Edge Cases
  • Acceptance Tests
  • Risks
  • Changed files or proposed files
  • Verification evidence
  • Next owner or decision

Quality Gates

  • System Rules
  • Balance Levers
  • Edge Cases
  • Acceptance Tests
  • Scope remains bounded to the current task and project stage.
  • Report labels unverified assumptions separately from evidence.

Decision Gates

  • Continue only when the expected output can be verified or clearly labeled as a plan.
  • Escalate to producer or qa-playtester when scope, ownership, or acceptance evidence is ambiguous.
  • Stop before broad rewrites, generated prompt mirrors, or hidden lifecycle behavior.

Handoff

Report changed files, verification evidence, remaining risks, and the next owner or decision. Do not imply hidden hooks or autonomous background work.

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. 9d ago First seen · 78 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 2d4d73d3e46e

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cgs-design-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository merlinhu1/codex-game-studio (53 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 581 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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