design

design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Pierry/harness-kit. It costs 30 tokens per session (325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general method for designing a software system from a blank page and recording the result in a System Design Document. It asks for the system's purpose, scale, constraints, performance targets, architecture, and trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design systems, estimate users, requests, data, and latency, describe the architecture, explain major trade-offs, and save the completed design document.
Why use it?
It turns an idea into a documented plan with measurable requirements and decisions. Topic-specific playbooks can be used when the system fits one of them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the harness-kit plugin — 14 skills, 17 commands, 4 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pierry/harness-kit/design
Any agent
npx skills add Pierry/harness-kit --skill design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pierry/harness-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install harness-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 17 commands, 4 agents, 4 hooks.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 325 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00030 $0.00325
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00032

Measured 3d ago against content hash 456dbe1d423f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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/agents/system-architect/skills/design/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Produce a System Design Doc for an arbitrary system. Follow guides/pipeline.md for retry and approval.

Ask once if missing: system in 1-2 sentences, scale target (users / QPS / data / latency SLO), internal vs web-scale, known constraints.

Route first. If the problem matches a topic playbook under .claude/agents/system-architect/skills/{topic}/SKILL.md (e.g. search-engine), use that skill instead, it carries a canned reference architecture. This generic skill is the fallback when no topic fits.

Compute feature_id = {YYYY-MM-DD}-{slug}.

Read:

  • guides/design-method.md (the method and the canon)
  • guides/writing-style.md
  • guides/templates/system-design.md
  • guides/pipeline.md
  • guides/examples/good-system-design-example.md

Generate the SDD: walk all 13 stages of the template. Every non-functional claim carries a number. Show back-of-envelope math. Name a trade-off per major choice. Mermaid for flow and architecture.

Save to .claude/runtime/outputs/architect/design/{feature_id}.md.

Sensors: sensors/design-structure.md, sensors/design-rigor.md. Evals: evals/design-quality.md.

After save reply: Design saved at {path}. Score: {N}/10. Then offer /system-design:review.

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. 3d ago First seen · 35 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 456dbe1d423f

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design is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pierry/harness-kit (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 325 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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