design-level

design-level is a skill for Claude Code from ouzlifaneyassine1-dot/onyx-engine. It costs 71 tokens per session (3,082 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided method for designing one video-game level, including its layout, pacing, encounters, secrets, and rewards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning tutorial, hub, combat, boss, exploration, puzzle, stealth, platforming, or mixed levels and producing a design document with a scene structure.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad level idea into a playable sequence with a clear tension curve and a teaching goal.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the onyx plugin — 77 skills, 1 command, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Planning tutorial, hub, combat, boss, exploration, puzzle, stealth, platforming, or mixed levels and producing a design document with a scene structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ouzlifaneyassine1-dot/onyx-engine/design-level
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ouzlifaneyassine1-dot/onyx-engine --skill design-level
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ouzlifaneyassine1-dot/onyx-engine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install onyx, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 77 skills, 1 command, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,082 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 $0.00071 $0.03082
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01541
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00616
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00308

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4f3c6fbf6a39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-level 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 10d 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.

skills/level-design/design-level/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/design-level — Design One Level

Overview

A level is a controlled sequence of player experiences in physical space. Layout, pacing, encounters, secrets, and reward gating must work together — a "fun layout" with a flat pacing curve still feels boring. This skill walks the six design beats of a single level and drops a node-tree skeleton ready for onyx_create_scene.

Core principle: A level has a pacing curve and a teaching arc. If you can't draw the tension graph and name what the player learned by the end, the level isn't designed yet.

Steps

1. Pin the level type

Ask exactly one question:

What kind of level? Pick one: tutorial / hub / combat encounter / boss / exploration / puzzle / stealth / platforming-challenge / mixed.

Each type has different beats. Don't blend types in v1 — a "boss room with stealth and puzzles" is three levels poorly squeezed into one.

2. Read context

If .onyx/GameSoul.md exists, read it. The level must serve the brief's core loop and the three mechanics.

Read .onyx/GameSoul.md

If .onyx/mechanics/ exists, list the mechanics. Quote them back:

Brief says mechanics are: dash, parry, double-jump. This level should exercise at least one and ideally combine two.

3. Define the teaching / experience goal

Ask plain:

What does the player know by the end of this level that they didn't at the start?

Tutorial-level answer: "How to dash." Combat-encounter answer: "That parrying converts damage to mana, and that big enemies need parry, not dodge." Exploration answer: "That this region's secrets are hidden behind double-jumpable gaps."

If the user can't answer, the level has no purpose. Say it:

If there's no answer to that question, the level is filler. Either give it a teaching goal, give it a failure-state goal (the player must die here to progress), or merge it into the next level.

4. Sketch the pacing curve

Draw it as text. Five beats, intensity 0-10:

Intro    Build    Peak    Release    Hook
 2  →    5    →   8   →    3      →   6

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 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. 10d ago First seen · 267 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 4f3c6fbf6a39

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design-level is a skill published in the GitHub repository ouzlifaneyassine1-dot/onyx-engine (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 3,082 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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