packmind: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/agentic-design-session/SKILL.md

agentic-design-session is a skill for Claude Code from PackmindHub/packmind. It costs 133 tokens per session (1,559 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design-session skill that records the important choices made before a feature is built, including rejected alternatives and the reasons for rejecting them. It stores this information in an append-only decision log after a feature charter has been created.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for resolving design forks, documenting decisions and alternatives, and updating the feature's planned session size before implementation.
Why use it?
It keeps later implementation work from reopening settled questions or contradicting earlier choices. Recording the reasons also makes the design understandable when work resumes later.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents.

This is PackmindHub/packmind's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on packmind itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything packmind configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to PackmindHub/packmind. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PackmindHub/packmind/main/.claude/skills/agentic-design-session/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PackmindHub/packmind

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,559 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 $0.00133 $0.01559
Opus 5.5 $0.00053 $0.00624
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00156

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8192aa58bff6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-design-session 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.

.claude/skills/agentic-design-session/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design session

You are settling how, and recording it so it survives. The main output is .claude/features/<slug>/decisions.md, from .claude/pipeline/decision-log.template.md. Read the charter first.

You also close by filling one section of the charter — Size and sessions — and that is the only edit you may make outside the decision log. It is the last step of this skill, described at the bottom.

Why the rejected alternatives matter more than the decisions

An orchestrator will re-encounter every fork you settle here when it writes specs, weeks of context later. Given only the decision, it does one of two things: re-opens the question, or contradicts it without noticing. Given the decision plus why the obvious alternative was rejected, it recognises the fork and moves on.

So a Rejected bullet with no reason is worth nothing. "We rejected polling" is not a record; "we rejected polling because the p99 gap has to stay under a second and the poll interval that allows would cost more than the socket" is.

The same applies when you turn out to be wrong. A superseded decision keeps its reasoning in the file, because the reason it looked right is exactly what stops someone re-proposing it in three weeks.

Hard rules

  • Write no code. Types, signatures and schemas are decisions, and you may quote a signature in a decision. You may not implement one.
  • Edit no file but the decision log, and the charter's Size and sessions section at the close. Nothing else in the charter is yours to touch — if framing got a criterion wrong, say so and let the user reopen phase 1a.
  • Append only. Never rewrite a decided entry. To change one, add a new entry with supersedes: D-00n, and append superseded-by: to the old one. That one line is the only permitted mutation.
  • Never leave a fork implicit. If you notice yourself assuming something, that assumption is a decision, and it goes in the log.

How to run the conversation

Surface the assumptions first. Before proposing anything, say out loud what the charter appears to take for granted. Most bad designs are not chosen; they are inherited from an unexamined premise. Ask about each one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 1mo ago First seen · 124 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 8192aa58bff6

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agentic-design-session is a skill published in the GitHub repository PackmindHub/packmind (319 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 1,559 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-17.

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