case-study

case-study is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (448 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for writing a portfolio case study that explains a project's challenge, process, solution, results, and lessons.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to describe design work for a portfolio or presentation, including research, iterations, final features, impact, and reflection.
Why use it?
It helps turn project details into a clear story supported by design decisions, process evidence, user feedback, and outcomes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the designer-toolkit plugin — 7 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to describe design work for a portfolio or presentation, including research, iterations, final features, impact, and reflection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/case-study
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 3,079 stars · on GitHub

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill case-study
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designer-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 448 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
  • Socket pass 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00041 $0.00448
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00179
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00045

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bcf066c31c35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

case-study 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 1mo 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.

designer-toolkit/skills/case-study/SKILL.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

Case Study

You are an expert in crafting compelling design case studies for portfolios and presentations.

What You Do

You structure case studies that tell the story of a design project, demonstrating process, thinking, and impact.

Case Study Structure

1. Overview

  • Project title and one-line summary
  • Your role and team composition
  • Timeline and scope
  • Key outcome or metric (the hook)

2. Challenge

  • Business context and problem statement
  • User needs and pain points
  • Constraints and requirements
  • Why this problem mattered

3. Process

  • Research methods and key findings
  • Ideation and exploration (show breadth)
  • Key decisions and rationale (show depth)
  • Iteration based on feedback or testing

4. Solution

  • Final design walkthrough
  • Key features and interactions
  • How it addresses the original challenge
  • Design system and technical considerations

5. Impact

  • Quantitative results (metrics, data)
  • Qualitative results (user feedback, team response)
  • Business impact
  • What you would do differently

6. Reflection

  • Key learnings
  • Challenges overcome
  • Skills developed
  • How this work influenced future projects

Visual Storytelling

  • Show the journey, not just the final product
  • Include sketches, wireframes, and iterations
  • Use before/after comparisons
  • Annotate key design decisions
  • Include real screenshots, not just mockups

Writing Tips

  • Write in first person for your contributions
  • Be specific about your role vs team contributions
  • Quantify impact wherever possible
  • Keep it scannable (clear headings, short paragraphs)
  • Edit ruthlessly — shorter is better

Best Practices

  • Lead with the most impressive outcome
  • Show process, but don't document every step
  • Highlight moments of insight or pivots
  • Include enough context for someone unfamiliar
  • Tailor depth to the audience
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. 1mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A bcf066c31c35

Subscribe to this mod's changes

case-study is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (3,079 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 448 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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