maestro-design

maestro-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ReinaMacCredy/maestro. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,460 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided planning skill for resolving unclear requirements and design choices before coding begins. It records each decision, its reasoning, and the approved scope.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a feature request, compare possible architectures, investigate unknowns without changing files, and agree on what will and will not be built.
Why use it?
It prevents developers from implementing the wrong thing when the request, ownership, or technical approach is still uncertain. It also makes hard-to-reverse choices explicit before work starts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to clarify a feature request, compare possible architectures, investigate unknowns without changing files, and agree on what will and will not be built.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reinamaccredy/maestro/maestro-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 ReinaMacCredy/maestro --skill maestro-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ReinaMacCredy/maestro

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,460 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 30
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00062 $0.01460
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00730
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00146

Measured 5d ago against content hash d2179acba634, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maestro-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 5d 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.

src/plugins/skills/maestro-design/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

maestro-design

Use when the request, acceptance, authority, or implementation boundary is unsettled. Design is human-guided whenever a choice changes what will be built. Do not begin implementation until the relevant decisions are locked and the user has approved the resulting scope. Design is read-only toward production code and authorizes nothing.

Mode per unknown

Identify what kind of unknown blocks progress, then load only the reference that resolves it:

The unknown Mode Reference
Decisions only the user can make, several and interdependent grill references/grilling.md
A decision owned by someone not in the conversation route to maestro-questionnaire
A fact in docs, APIs, or source outside this repo research maestro-explore (research mode)
"Does this state model feel right?" or "What should it look like?" prototype maestro-explore (prototype mode)
Fuzzy terminology, or a hard-to-reverse choice worth recording model references/domain-modeling.md
The effort exceeds one session and is wrapped in fog, or the user does not know what to do next wayfind references/wayfinder.md

Facts are yours to find; decisions are the user's. Never ask the user for anything you could look up. Modes compose: grill runs with the glossary in hand; wayfind dispatches grill, research, and prototype per child work item. Each design pass must close at least one fork; a pass that closes none surfaces the blocker to the user instead of looping.

Intake

Pin the problem before choosing a method:

For [who], reach [observable outcome] within [boundary], because [impact], without [excluded effect].

Route uncertainty to a lane:

Current uncertainty Lane
state unknown scout, no-write
several architectures two or three decision lanes
contract clear delivery
candidate needs breaking challenge
hard-to-reverse fork council

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 5d ago Changed · -4 lines d2179acba634
  2. 6d ago Changed · +44 lines · +29 tokens per session c5e2ff87ad8f
  3. 11d ago First seen · 95 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 725fbcc01176

Subscribe to this mod's changes

maestro-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository ReinaMacCredy/maestro (232 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,460 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 2026-08-30.

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