design

design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paruff/uFawkesAI. It costs 22 tokens per session (611 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design process that turns a written specification into a technical plan covering architecture, components, interfaces, data flows, and tradeoffs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create design documents, break down the architecture, define how components communicate, model data movement, and validate Kubernetes decisions.
Why use it?
It gives developers a structured design before implementation and checks that the planned system is scalable, secure, and consistent with existing architecture.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to create design documents, break down the architecture, define how components communicate, model data movement, and validate Kubernetes decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paruff/ufawkesai/design
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 paruff/uFawkesAI --skill design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paruff/uFawkesAI

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 611 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 $0.00022 $0.00611
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00305
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00061

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9a687c3048ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design 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.

.agents/skills/design/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Design

Load trigger: "load design skill" > DORA: Cap 3 (AI-Accessible Internal Data) Token cost: Low

Purpose

Convert specification into technical design.

Responsibilities

  • Decompose architecture
  • Identify components
  • Define interfaces
  • Model data flows
  • Validate K8s design
  • Document tradeoffs

Sub-Skills

Skill Purpose
design/architecture-decomposition Break down system architecture
design/component-identification Identify required components
design/interface-definition Define component interfaces
design/k8s-design-validation Validate Kubernetes design

Dependencies

Skill Relationship
spec Consumes specification and requirements

Inputs

  • specification.md (from spec)
  • Existing architecture (if updating)
  • Policy documents

Outputs

  • design.md
  • architecture-decisions.md
  • component-interfaces.md

Design Rules

Architecture

  • Follows established patterns
  • Aligns with existing architecture
  • Scalability considered
  • Security embedded (not bolted on)

Components

  • Single responsibility
  • Clear boundaries
  • Loose coupling
  • High cohesion

Interfaces

  • Contracts defined
  • Versioning considered
  • Error handling specified
  • Input validation defined

Tradeoffs

  • Alternatives documented
  • Rationale provided
  • Risks identified
  • Mitigation strategies defined

Output Format

{
  "skill": "design",
  "status": "pass | fail",
  "architecture": {
    "overview": "description",
    "components": ["auth-service", "user-api", "database"],
    "patterns": ["microservices", "event-driven"]
  },
  "interfaces": [
    {
      "component": "auth-service",
      "inputs": ["email", "password"],
      "outputs": ["token", "user-id"]
    }
  ],
  "tradeoffs": [
    {
      "decision": "Use PostgreSQL",
      "alternatives": ["MySQL", "MongoDB"],
      "rationale": "ACID compliance required"
    }
  ]
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 8d ago First seen · 120 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 9a687c3048ba

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design is a skill published in the GitHub repository paruff/uFawkesAI (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 611 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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