design

A planning skill that turns brainstorming decisions into a structured implementation plan for a coding project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create actionable plans for quick changes, standard work, or projects that need several phases.
Why use it?
It checks existing decisions and plans for conflicts and clarifies how large the work is before implementation starts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stranma/claude-code-python-template/design
Any agent
npx skills add stranma/claude-code-python-template --skill design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stranma/claude-code-python-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 623 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00035 $0.00623
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured yesterday against content hash ff645ed33124, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 yesterday.

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/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design

Crystallize brainstorming into a structured implementation plan. Use at the start or end of brainstorming to formalize an approach.

Steps

1. Check for Conflicts

  • Read docs/DECISIONS.md -- scan for entries that conflict with or overlap the proposed work
  • Read docs/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md -- check for active phases or overlapping planned work
  • If conflicts found: present the contradiction to the user before proceeding

2. Auto-Classify Scope

This is a planning-time estimate based on conversation context. /done will later auto-detect actual scope from workspace signals (branch, files changed, diff size, plan state) at completion time.

Scope Criteria
Q (Quick) Trivial, obvious, single-location change (typo, config tweak, one-liner)
S (Standard) Fits in one session, clear scope (new feature, multi-file refactor, investigation)
P (Project) Needs phased execution across sessions (multi-phase feature, architecture change)

3. Output Structured Plan

The plan format varies by scope:

Q (Quick)
## Plan (Quick)
**Fix**: <what to change>
**File**: <target file>
**Recommendation**: Proceed directly -- this is a single-location change.
S (Standard)
## Plan (Standard)
**Scope**: <1-2 sentence summary>
**Branch**: `<fix|feat|refactor>/<short-name>`

### Files to Modify
- <file> -- <what changes>

### Approach
<numbered steps>

### Test Strategy
<what to test and how>

### Risks
- <potential issues>
P (Project)
## Plan (Project)
**Scope**: <1-2 sentence summary>

### Phase 1: <name>
**Acceptance Criteria**:
- [ ] <criterion>
**Files**: <list>
**Approach**: <summary>

### Phase 2: <name>
...

For P-scoped plans: write the phase breakdown to docs/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md using the same structure shown above (phase name, acceptance criteria, files, approach). The .claude/agents/implementation-tracker.md agent validates this format.

4. Decision Candidates

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. yesterday First seen · 88 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A ff645ed33124

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design is a skill published in the GitHub repository stranma/claude-code-python-template (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 623 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.