design-brief

design-brief is a skill for Claude Code from mshadmanrahman/claude-for-designers. It costs 34 tokens per session (407 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for turning project answers into a design brief, which is the main reference for a design project. It records the product, target user, desired feeling, and definition of done before interface work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after gathering requirements and before planning information architecture or designing screens, especially when you need a shared reference for the team.
Why use it?
It prevents later design decisions from drifting away from the user's needs and the project's agreed goals.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it after gathering requirements and before planning information architecture or designing screens, especially when you need a shared reference for the team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mshadmanrahman/claude-for-designers/design-brief
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mshadmanrahman/claude-for-designers --skill design-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mshadmanrahman/claude-for-designers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00204
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Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00041

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design-brief 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 12d ago.

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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-brief/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

You are writing a design brief. This is the single source of truth for the project. Everything that comes after this step references it.

First, ask the following if no Requirements Handshake exists from /grill-me:

  • What is the product or feature being designed?
  • Who are the primary users?
  • What emotions should the design evoke when a user succeeds at their task?
  • What does "done" look like for this project?

Ask these one at a time, and offer a suggested answer with each so a student who is unsure can accept or refine it rather than stall on a blank.

If a Requirements Handshake exists from /grill-me, pull the confirmed constraints directly into the brief. Do not re-ask questions that are already answered there.

Then generate a brief with these six sections:

1. Project context What is being built and why now. One paragraph. No vague mission statements.

2. Target user Who this is for. Name a specific person or role, not a demographic range. Include what they care about and what they do not.

3. Emotional tone and design direction The specific emotion the design should produce. Not "clean and modern." Name the actual feeling: confidence, calm, urgency, delight. Then name one reference product that nails that feeling and why.

4. Functional requirements What the design must do. Numbered list. Each item starts with a verb.

5. Constraints What cannot change. Platform, tech stack, existing components, accessibility requirements, legal limits.

6. Success criteria How you will know this worked. Measurable where possible. At minimum: one behavioral signal and one metric.

Be specific throughout. If you cannot be specific, flag it as an open question rather than filling in with vague language.

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  1. 12d ago First seen · 39 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 7f9a5be7c6d2

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design-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository mshadmanrahman/claude-for-designers (28 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 407 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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