design-mechanic

design-mechanic is a skill for Claude Code from SummerEngine/summer-engine-agent. It costs 83 tokens per session (3,070 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design workflow for one game mechanic, meaning one player action that causes a meaningful response from the game world. It examines input, response, feedback, failure cases, and ways the mechanic can gain depth.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design actions such as a double-jump, parry, dash, pickup, lock-on, or crafting action, then produce a design document and implementation sketch.
Why use it?
It turns a vague feature idea into a design that can be implemented and tested.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the summer plugin — 80 skills, 2 commands, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to design actions such as a double-jump, parry, dash, pickup, lock-on, or crafting action, then produce a design document and implementation sketch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/summerengine/summer-engine-agent/design-mechanic
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 SummerEngine/summer-engine-agent --skill design-mechanic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SummerEngine/summer-engine-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install summer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills, 2 commands, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,070 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00083 $0.03070
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01535
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00614
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00307

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3fa1ee0daffa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-mechanic 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 12d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/gameplay-mechanics/design-mechanic/SKILL.md · 274 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 274 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/design-mechanic — Design One Mechanic in Detail

Overview

A "mechanic" is a verb the player performs that produces a meaningful response from the world. Not a system. Not a feature. A verb with feedback. This skill walks the five layers of a real mechanic: input → response → feedback → failure modes → depth — then drops a node-graph sketch + GDScript stub into the project so the next session can implement it.

Core principle: a mechanic is only as good as its weakest feedback layer. A perfect parry with no audio cue is broken. A great audio cue with floaty input is broken. Walk all five layers before scaffolding.

Steps

1. Pin which mechanic

Ask exactly one question and wait:

Which mechanic? (e.g., "double-jump", "parry", "stamina-dash", "pickup", "lock-on", "crafting-recipe-craft").

If the user gives a system name ("inventory", "combat"), push back:

Inventory is a system, not a mechanic. The mechanics inside it are: pickup, equip, drop, use, swap. Which one?

2. Read context if available

If .summer/GameSoul.md exists, read it. The mechanic should fit the game brief, not exist in isolation.

Read .summer/GameSoul.md

Quote the relevant constraint back at the user:

Brief says core loop is "see obstacle, attempt, fail, learn, retry". A double-jump only matters if it changes which obstacles are reachable. Confirm that's what we're solving.

3. Walk the five layers — one at a time

Layer 1: Input. Exactly what does the player press, hold, release, time?

State a candidate, ask for refinement:

Input candidate: tap Space mid-air. Or: hold-and-release for variable height? Or: requires direction + Space? Pick one.

Layer 2: Response. What changes in the world the moment the input fires?

State the deltas. For double-jump:

Response: vertical velocity set to (jump_velocity * 0.85). _can_double_jump flag flips false. Visual rig plays "jump_2" anim. Audio cue. Particle burst at feet.

Layer 3: Feedback — and this is where most amateur designs collapse. Three sub-channels, all required:

Read the full file on GitHub · 274 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. 12d ago First seen · 274 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 3fa1ee0daffa

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design-mechanic is a skill published in the GitHub repository SummerEngine/summer-engine-agent (59 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 3,070 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 2026-08-30.

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