claude-scaffold: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/design-doc-creator/SKILL.md

design-doc-creator is a skill for Claude Code from pyramidheadshark/claude-scaffold. It costs 0 tokens per session (776 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-planning guide for creating a design document before setup, testing, or coding begins. It helps organise requirements, users, data, architecture, testing, and deployment plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a project, turning client requests into structured requirements, or updating a design-doc.md file.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of coding before the project goals and requirements are clear. It also keeps important decisions and unanswered questions in one document.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is pyramidheadshark/claude-scaffold's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-scaffold 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 claude-scaffold configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to pyramidheadshark/claude-scaffold. 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/pyramidheadshark/claude-scaffold/main/.claude/skills/design-doc-creator/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pyramidheadshark/claude-scaffold

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 776 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 $0.00000 $0.00776
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00388
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00078

Measured 10d ago against content hash 847485abcbb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-doc-creator 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 10d 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/design-doc-creator/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Doc Creator

When to Load This Skill

Load when: starting a new project, creating or updating design-doc.md, translating client requirements into structured documentation, filling in the design document template.

Purpose

This skill guides the creation of a complete design document. It is always the first deliverable of any project — before environment setup, before tests, before code.

Document Structure (10 Sections)

The template lives at templates/design-doc.md in claude-scaffold.

Section Owner When
0. Quick Summary Agent (from inputs) Intake
1. Business Context Human + Agent Intake → Iteration
2. Users and Roles Human + Agent Intake → Iteration
3. Input Data Human Intake
4. Use Cases / Scenarios Human + Agent Iteration
5. Non-Functional Requirements Human + Agent Iteration
6. Technical Architecture Agent After 1–5 approved
7. Test Plan Agent After 6 drafted
8. Deployment Plan Agent After 6 drafted
9. Open Technical Questions Agent Ongoing
10. Changelog Agent Every update

Sections 1–5 must be fully resolved before agent writes sections 6–9.

Intake Phase Workflow

Step 1: Collect all available inputs

Sources may include:

  • Voice transcript / written description from human
  • Client Excel checklist (use multimodal-router skill if needed)
  • Existing partial documentation
  • Uploaded PDF / Word files

Step 2: Populate template

Fill every section. Mark unknown values as TBD — never leave blanks. Mark resolved items as Agreed.

Step 3: Generate open questions

Categorise as:

  • Business — client/stakeholder must answer
  • Technical — developer decides or researches

Keep questions specific and answerable. Not "what are the requirements?" but "What is the maximum acceptable response latency for the chat endpoint — 2s, 5s, or unconstrained?"

Step 4: Iterate

Re-run steps 2–3 with each batch of answers. Stop when all Business questions in section 1.5 are resolved. Technical questions may remain open during early development.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 87 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 847485abcbb9

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design-doc-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository pyramidheadshark/claude-scaffold (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 776 tokens. 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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