to-design

to-design is a skill for Claude Code from smallnest/goal-workflow. It costs 96 tokens per session (3,535 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of to-design, MIT.

A design-document generator that turns a product requirements document, or PRD, into a proposal for how to build the feature. It records the background, chosen approach, reasons, trade-offs, compatibility concerns, and implementation plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn rough product requirements into a reviewable engineering proposal. It is useful when several approaches have meaningful trade-offs or when a change needs compatibility planning.
Why use it?
A PRD describes what should be built, while a design document explains how and why to build it. Writing this down helps a team agree before committing to a risky or difficult-to-reverse implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the goal-workflow-skills plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to turn rough product requirements into a reviewable engineering proposal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/smallnest/goal-workflow/to-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add smallnest/goal-workflow --skill to-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smallnest/goal-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00096 $0.03535
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01767
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00707
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00353

Measured 7d ago against content hash e6819c049a64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

to-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 7d 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

100% identical to to-design — 0 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.

skills/to-design/SKILL.md · 282 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 282 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

to-design — PRD to Design Document

Turn a PRD (or a rough idea) into a design document written in the style of Go's official design proposals: plain language, concrete examples, and—above all—an honest account of why this approach and not the alternatives.

This is not the same as prd-to-spec. A SPEC is an implementation contract (tables, endpoints, schemas) for an engineer to build against. A design document is a decision artifact: it argues for an approach, surfaces the tradeoffs, and lets a team agree on the same facts before anyone writes code. When the question is "how should we build this and why", produce a design doc; when the question is "give me the exact contract to implement", produce a SPEC.

设计哲学源自对 5 篇 Go 官方 proposal(泛型 / 错误包装 / loopvar / slog / try)的分析。核心信念:文档的价值不取决于方案是否通过,而取决于它是否让讨论建立在同一套事实和取舍之上。


When to Use

  • A PRD exists and you need to decide how to build it before committing to implementation
  • The approach has real tradeoffs and you want them documented and debated
  • The change is risky, breaking, or hard to reverse (a design doc forces the compatibility conversation early)
  • Multiple people need to agree on a direction before work fans out
  • You want a durable record of "why we chose X and rejected Y" — even if the proposal is later rejected

If the team just needs the concrete contract to code against, use /prd-to-spec instead (or run to-design first, then prd-to-spec).


The Job

  1. Locate input — find or receive the PRD (or idea)
  2. Analyze context (optional) — scan the codebase for existing patterns, constraints, and prior art
  3. Surface the decisions — identify the real design forks and ask clarifying questions (max 3-5)
  4. Generate the design doc — following the structure and writing style below
  5. Review — present for feedback, especially on the Rationale and Compatibility sections
  6. Save — write to the agreed location

Step 1: Locate Input

Provide the PRD (or idea) to design from:

A. File path (e.g., tasks/prd-priority-system.md)
B. GitHub Issue URL
C. Paste content directly
D. Just describe the idea — I'll design from the conversation

Read the full file on GitHub · 282 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. 7d ago First seen · 282 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A e6819c049a64

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to-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository smallnest/goal-workflow (278 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 3,535 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to to-design, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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