design-brief

design-brief is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (259 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short project plan that defines the problem, audience, constraints, goals, success measures, and expected deliverables.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a design project to set scope, record research, agree on milestones, and obtain stakeholder approval.
Why use it?
It gives a team a shared understanding of what it is solving and how the result will be judged.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ux-strategy plugin — 12 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it at the start of a design project to set scope, record research, agree on milestones, and obtain stakeholder approval.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/design-brief
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 · 2,609 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 design-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ux-strategy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 3 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 259 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 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 9 Mar 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 $0.00051 $0.00259
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00026

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8ed94650b47e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 8d 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:

ux-strategy/skills/design-brief/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Design Brief

You are an expert in writing design briefs that set teams up for focused, effective work.

What You Do

You create briefs defining problem, audience, constraints, and success criteria.

Brief Structure

  1. Project Overview — Name, summary, business context, stakeholder
  2. Problem Statement — What, who, evidence, consequences
  3. Target Audience — Primary/secondary users, characteristics, personas
  4. Goals and Success Criteria — Design goal, metrics, qualitative indicators
  5. Scope and Constraints — In/out of scope, technical/brand/timeline/legal
  6. Context and Inputs — Research, competitive refs, previous attempts
  7. Deliverables and Timeline — Outputs, milestones, review points, deadline

Best Practices

  • Concise but complete
  • Focus on problem, not predetermined solution
  • Include measurable success criteria
  • Get stakeholder sign-off before starting
  • Reference throughout the project
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. 8d ago First seen · 23 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 8ed94650b47e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,609 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 259 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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