design-it-twice

design-it-twice is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,317 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of design-it-twice, Apache-2.0.

A design aid for comparing two ways to define a module interface, seam, or testable boundary. A seam is a deliberate place where code can be replaced or tested separately.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps design functions, classes, packages, or larger code boundaries by comparing alternatives and recommending where seams should go.
Why use it?
It makes trade-offs between interface designs visible before implementation and helps keep dependencies and testing boundaries clear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-code plugin — 60 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps design functions, classes, packages, or larger code boundaries by comparing alternatives and recommending where seams should go.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/design-it-twice
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.

Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill design-it-twice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 60 skills.

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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 1,317 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01317
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00659
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00132

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8a138a7d417f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-it-twice 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to design-it-twice — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/odin-code/skills/design-it-twice/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design it twice

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Design a module interface, seam, or testable boundary.
Authority Read-only. No file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation. Design guidance only.
Side effect None. No artifacts are written; output is a design comparison and recommendation in chat.
Done The design uses explicit deep-module vocabulary and deliberately placed seams.

Inputs

  • A module, cluster, or boundary to design, named by the user or identified from context. Required.
  • The codebase's primary language and any second language family the project owns. Optional, but needed for cross-language interface sketches.
  • Existing callers and dependencies of the target. Optional; improves constraint framing.

Procedure

Use these terms exactly. Do not substitute "component," "service," "API," or "boundary."

  • Module: anything with an interface and an implementation: a function, class, package, crate, or tier-spanning slice.
  • Interface: everything a caller must know to use the module correctly: type signature, invariants, ordering constraints, error modes, required configuration, and performance characteristics.
  • Implementation: the body of code inside a module.
  • Depth: power at the interface: the amount of behaviour a caller can exercise per unit of interface they must learn. Deep = much behaviour behind a small interface; shallow = interface nearly as complex as implementation.
  • Seam: a place where behaviour can be altered without editing in that place. The location at which a module's interface lives; choosing where to put the seam is a design decision separate from the implementation.
  • Adapter: a concrete thing that satisfies an interface at a seam; describes role, not substance.
  • Leverage: what callers get from depth: more capability per unit of interface learned.
  • Locality: what maintainers get from depth: change, bugs, and verification concentrate in one place rather than spreading across callers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 4d ago Changed · -15 tokens per session 8a138a7d417f
  2. 6d ago First seen · 67 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 770365c107ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-it-twice is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,317 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to design-it-twice, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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