mastermind-design

mastermind-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from monoes/monomind. It costs 30 tokens per session (2,150 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design discussion workflow for turning a request into a written design before implementation. It asks questions about the project and requires the design to be approved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a feature, component, behaviour change, configuration change, or other implementation request and produce an agreed design.
Why use it?
It exposes missing requirements and assumptions before code changes begin, including for changes that appear small.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to clarify a feature, component, behaviour change, configuration change, or other implementation request and produce an agreed design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/monoes/monomind/mastermind-design
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add monoes/monomind --skill mastermind-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/monoes/monomind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,150 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00030 $0.02150
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00860
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00215

Measured 2d ago against content hash f992d3124365, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mastermind-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 2d ago.

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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/mastermind-design/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mastermind Design

Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.

Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design and get user approval.


Anti-Pattern: "This Is Too Simple To Need A Design"

Every feature goes through this process. A todo list, a single-function utility, a config change — all of them. "Simple" tasks are where unexamined assumptions cause the most wasted work. The design can be short (a few sentences for truly simple requests), but you MUST present it and get approval.


Inputs

  • brain_context: BRAIN CONTEXT block (injected by master, or loaded standalone via mastermind-protocol/SKILL.md brain load)
  • prompt: the idea or request to design
  • project_name: project context
  • mode: auto | confirm

Checklist

Complete these items in order:

  1. Explore project context — check files, docs, recent commits
  2. Offer the visual companion just-in-time — NOT upfront. The first time a question would genuinely be clearer shown than described, offer it then (its own message, not combined with a clarifying question). If no visual question ever arises, never offer it. See the Visual Companion section below.
  3. Ask clarifying questions — one at a time; understand purpose, constraints, success criteria
  4. Propose 2-3 approaches — with trade-offs and your recommendation
  5. Present design — in sections scaled to their complexity; get user approval after each section
  6. Write design doc — save to docs/mastermind/specs/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md
  7. Spec self-review — inline check for placeholders, contradictions, ambiguity, scope (see below)
  8. User reviews written spec — ask user to review before proceeding
  9. Transition to planning — invoke Skill("mastermind-plan") to create the implementation plan

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 2d ago First seen · 193 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A f992d3124365

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mastermind-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository monoes/monomind (23 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,150 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-26.

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