demo-setup

demo-setup is a skill for Claude Code from microsoft/hve-core. It costs 38 tokens per session (4,142 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided setup for creating a runnable demonstration prototype through a simulated Design Thinking session. It creates a customer persona, walks through design methods, scaffolds a high-fidelity prototype, and prepares presenter and video materials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to practise a design-thinking workflow, create a prototype for a demonstration, and produce a walkthrough guide and recording script.
Why use it?
It gives new HVE Core users a repeatable path from a fictional customer conversation to a demo they can run and present.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to practise a design-thinking workflow, create a prototype for a demonstration, and produce a walkthrough guide and recording script.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/hve-core/demo-setup
About the project

HVE Core is a collection of agents, prompts, coding instructions, and skills for building repeatable software-development workflows with GitHub Copilot. It is intended for individuals and teams that want structured AI-assisted research, planning, implementation, and review, while the catalogue entries provide many of its reusable workflow components.

microsoft/hve-core · 1,453 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/hve-core --skill demo-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/hve-core

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,142 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 $0.00038 $0.04142
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.02071
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00828
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00414

Measured yesterday against content hash a5cca78bc710, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

demo-setup 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 yesterday.

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.

.github/skills/design-thinking/demo-setup/SKILL.md · 322 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 322 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Demo Setup

Overview

Creates demo-ready prototypes by guiding you through a simulated Design Thinking Coach session with a customer persona, then scaffolding a hi-fi prototype. The skill generates a customer persona brief with realistic conversation seeds, accelerates through DT Methods 1 through 6 with simulated customer dialogue, and scaffolds a runnable hi-fi prototype directly at Method 7. The result is a complete, runnable demo with a presenter's walkthrough guide and a video script for recording.

Primary audience: new users learning HVE Core tools.

Core design constraints:

  • Every demo starts with a customer persona brief that drives the simulated conversation.
  • DT Coach interactions use accelerated pacing (2 to 3 exchanges per method) for demo efficiency.
  • Step 4 scaffolds the hi-fi prototype directly, handling all scaffold generation and experiment framing.
  • Presenter's guide included so demos are repeatable without memorizing the flow.
  • Demo video script generated for recording a polished walkthrough video.

Prerequisites

  • DT Coach agent accessible (provided by the HVE Core extension)
  • .copilot-tracking/ directory exists at the workspace root

Quick Start

Run a demo with custom inputs:

  1. Invoke /demo-setup with customer={name}, industry={vertical}, and optionally persona and problem.
  2. The DT Coach walks through Methods 1 through 6 with a generated persona and conversation seeds.
  3. At Method 7 the skill scaffolds a runnable prototype.
  4. Open index.html in a browser and follow the presenter's guide in README.md.

When to Use

  • Setting up a demo for a customer, partner, or internal team to showcase HVE Core tooling
  • Onboarding new users who need to see the DT Coach and prototype workflow end to end
  • Preparing a conference talk, workshop, or training session that walks through the tools
  • Creating a reference demo that others can replicate independently

When Not to Use

  • Running a real Design Thinking engagement with actual stakeholders (use the DT Coach directly)
  • Building a production prototype without the demo scaffolding and walkthrough
  • Creating a static slide deck or documentation (use the canonical deck or PowerPoint skill)
  • The audience already knows the tools and needs advanced workflow guidance

Read the full file on GitHub · 322 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. yesterday First seen · 322 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A a5cca78bc710

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demo-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/hve-core (1,453 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 4,142 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 2026-09-10.

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