design-gate-brainstorming

design-gate-brainstorming is a skill for Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,465 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided design checkpoint for turning a rough idea or repository into an approved design plan before coding starts. Depending on the situation, it produces a saved design document, an in-chat plan, or a recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before building a new feature, component, or behavior change when no approved design exists.
Why use it?
It prevents implementation from starting with unclear goals or unapproved decisions. It also makes the expected scope and next step explicit.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it before building a new feature, component, or behavior change when no approved design exists.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/design-gate-brainstorming
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/outline-driven-development --skill design-gate-brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,465 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00044 $0.01465
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00732
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00146

Measured 3d ago against content hash 10c19f0a3da2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-gate-brainstorming 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 3d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.devin/skills/design-gate-brainstorming/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design gate brainstorming

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User requests creative work (a feature, component, or behavior change) or supplies a raw idea or repository to develop, and no approved design exists; fires before any implementation action on every such path.
Authority Reversible local: writes only named design documents, builder profiles, analytics records, and spec documents depending on path; rollback is undo. No remote mutation. The idea path writes the named design document, builder profile, and analytics records; the architectural path writes only the named spec document; bounded and spike paths write no files. URL opens are reads.
Side effect Idea path: a redaction-checked design document, builder profile, and session analytics records on local disk. Architectural path: a spec document and optionally a spec-reviewer subagent dispatch. Bounded path: an in-chat design only. Spike path: a recommendation only; anything built is labeled throwaway.
Done The user explicitly approved the intent before any implementation. Idea path ends at an approved, saved, redaction-checked design document handed off with a tiered closing and next-skill offer; bounded at in-chat design approval; spike at a reported recommendation; architectural at a self-review-clean spec plus handoff to the plan writer.

Inputs

  • A creative-work request (feature, component, or behavior change), or a raw idea description or repository path to develop. One must be supplied.
  • Any already-approved design present in context. Optional; if present, this skill does not route.
  • The user, in-loop, to approve or reject the produced design or recommendation. Required on every path.
  • Prior context for the idea path. Optional; absent context is gathered from the repository or the idea alone.

Procedure

  1. On any creative-work request with no approved design already in context, stop implementation and route. Confirm at the trust boundary that the request is creative work and that no approved design exists; if an approved design is present, do not route. Done when: the request is confirmed as creative work with no approved design, or the skill stands down because an approved design exists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 3d ago Changed · -27 tokens per session 10c19f0a3da2
  2. 5d ago First seen · 61 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A a2aa1da60a75

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-gate-brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,465 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 2026-09-03.

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