pdd

pdd is a skill for Claude Code from skillmds/skillmd. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,367 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of pdd, MIT.

A Prompt-Driven Development workflow for turning a rough idea into a design document and implementation plan. It moves through clarification, research, design, and planning with the user's approval at each step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify an idea, record findings, cite research, and create architecture or data-flow diagrams before coding.
Why use it?
It keeps requirements and decisions visible as they develop, rather than making hidden assumptions or jumping straight to implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the create-prd-from-idea plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to clarify an idea, record findings, cite research, and create architecture or data-flow diagrams before coding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skillmds/skillmd/pdd
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 skillmds/skillmd --skill pdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skillmds/skillmd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install create-prd-from-idea, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for pdd

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for pdd

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,367 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00034 $0.01367
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00547
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00137

Measured 4d ago against content hash eea31f2464e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-23, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdd 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to pdd — 28 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/create-prd-from-idea/skills/pdd/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prompt-Driven Development

Overview

Transform a rough idea into a detailed design with an implementation plan. The process is iterative: clarify requirements, research, design, plan — moving between phases as needed.

Important Notes

These rules apply across ALL steps:

  • User-driven flow: Never proceed to the next step without explicit user confirmation. At each transition, ask the user what they want to do next.
  • Iterative: The user can move between requirements clarification and research at any time. Always offer this option at phase transitions.
  • Record as you go: Append questions, answers, and findings to project files in real time — don't batch-write at the end.
  • Mermaid diagrams: Include diagrams for architectures, data flows, and component relationships in research and design documents.
  • Sources: Cite references and links in research documents when based on external materials.

Parameters

  • rough_idea (required): The initial concept or idea to develop
  • project_dir (optional, default: specs/{task_name}/): Base directory for all artifacts. {task_name} is derived as kebab-case from the idea (e.g., "build a rate limiter" → rate-limiter). Aligns with Ralph's spec-driven pipeline.

Constraints:

  • You MUST ask for all required parameters upfront in a single prompt
  • You MUST support multiple input methods: direct text, file path, URL
  • You MUST derive task_name from the rough idea as kebab-case
  • You MUST NOT overwrite an existing project directory — ask for a new path if it already has contents

Steps

1. Create Project Structure

Create the directory and initial files:

  • {project_dir}/rough-idea.md — the provided rough idea
  • {project_dir}/requirements.md — Q&A record (initially empty)
  • {project_dir}/research/ — directory for research notes

Inform the user the structure feeds into Ralph's spec-driven presets.

2. Initial Process Planning

Ask the user their preferred starting point:

  • Requirements clarification (default)
  • Preliminary research on specific topics
  • Provide additional context first

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. 4d ago First seen · 148 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A eea31f2464e2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository skillmds/skillmd (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,367 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to pdd, differing in 28 lines, and is treated as a copy.