design-plan

design-plan is a skill for Claude Code from slogsdon/skills-design. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,949 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for a new brand or branding project. It records the intended visual direction, writing style, audience, references, and restrictions before specific colours and fonts are chosen.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create a DESIGN-PLAN.md file for a brand and prepare the information needed by a design-system tool.
Why use it?
It gives later design work a clear basis, so design decisions do not have to be made arbitrarily.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the skills-design plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps create a DESIGN-PLAN.md file for a brand and prepare the information needed by a design-system tool.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,949 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 $0.00081 $0.01949
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00195

Measured 10d ago against content hash bbfde7771e75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-plan 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.

skills/design-plan/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: design-plan

Produces ./design/<brand-slug>/DESIGN-PLAN.md — a brand-agnostic strategic plan that the design-system skill consumes to derive concrete tokens. Think of it as the design equivalent of a PRD: it captures intent, constraints, and direction without committing to specific hex codes or fonts yet.

When to use

  • Starting a new branding project (Shane's own brand, a client brand, or an experiment)
  • Before /design-system — the system skill needs strategic input to make non-arbitrary token decisions
  • When revisiting a brand and the existing plan no longer matches the work

Do NOT use this for one-off artifacts where the brand is already defined and a DESIGN.md exists. Skip straight to a platform skill.

Inputs

A brand slug (kebab-case, e.g. shane-personal, acme-launch) and answers to 3 short questions (default) or 8 deeper questions (with --deep flag).

Output

./design/<brand-slug>/DESIGN-PLAN.md — created in the current working directory. The skill creates the parent dirs if needed. Never write to any other location.

Steps

1. Determine brand slug

If the user said "design plan for X", derive the slug from X (kebab-case, lowercase, no special chars). If they didn't, ask:

What brand slug should I use? (kebab-case, e.g. shane-personal, acme-launch)

2. Run the interview

Default (3 questions, ~2 min):

1. One sentence: who is this brand for, and what do they do? (e.g. "tooling for senior engineers building AI products")

2. Pick a visual direction + give me 3 voice/tone adjectives:
   - editorial (type-led, print-inspired, restrained)
   - technical (dev aesthetic, mono-led, dense)
   - bold (high-contrast, expressive, attention-grabbing)
   - minimal (whitespace-led, calm, neutral)
   - mixed (specify which two and how)
   Voice adjectives: e.g. "direct, dry, confident" or "warm, curious, generous"

3. Hard NOs and mood references:
   - Aesthetic constraints to never violate (e.g. "no emojis ever", "no gradients", "no stock photography")
   - 2–3 reference brands or sites whose vibe you want to channel (URLs or names)

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 lines

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 · 159 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A bbfde7771e75

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design-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository slogsdon/skills-design (3 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,949 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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