design-guards

design-guards is a skill for Claude Code from TalonT-Org/AutoSkillit. It costs 51 tokens per session (981 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design review that turns reported bug patterns into structural protections. These protections can be tests, contracts, or code-organization rules that make the same class of mistake harder to introduce.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a bug-pattern audit or when several related failures need a shared solution. It creates guards for each identified pattern and saves the resulting report in the designated temporary directory.
Why use it?
It addresses recurring causes instead of proposing one-off patches for individual bugs. The result is a concrete, testable defense plan that does not modify source code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: hooks in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

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/talont-org/autoskillit/design-guards
Any agent
npx skills add TalonT-Org/AutoSkillit --skill design-guards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TalonT-Org/AutoSkillit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 981 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.00981
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00098

Measured 6d ago against content hash 71858df112e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-guards 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/design-guards/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Guards Skill

Take a bug pattern audit report and design architectural guards that make each pattern structurally impossible or instantly caught. This is a multi-pattern analysis driven by a pattern report rather than a single bug investigation.

When to Use

  • After /audit-bugs produces a bug pattern report
  • User says "design guards", "design defenses", or "guard against these patterns"
  • User wants architectural immunity for a set of identified bug patterns

Arguments

Path to a bug pattern audit report (typically under temp/audit-bugs/). If not specified, use the most recent temp/audit-bugs/bug_pattern_audit_*.md.

Critical Constraints

NEVER:

  • Modify any source code files
  • Propose bandaid fixes or direct-only patches
  • Create files outside temp/design-guards/ directory

ALWAYS:

  • Use subagents for parallel codebase exploration
  • Focus on structural immunity over one-off fixes
  • Each guard must be concrete and testable
  • All output goes under temp/design-guards/ (create if needed)
  • Final report: temp/design-guards/defense_guards_{YYYY-MM-DD_HHMMSS}.md
  • Subagents must NOT create their own files - they return findings in their response text only
  • Do not change any code

Workflow

Step 1: Parse the Bug Pattern Report

Read the input report and extract each pattern:

  • Pattern name and description
  • Affected components and sessions
  • The root architectural gap identified

Step 2: Investigate Each Pattern in Parallel

For each pattern (or group of related patterns), launch subagents to explore:

Current State

  • Find all current instances of the pattern in the codebase (not just the ones that already caused bugs)
  • Map which components are vulnerable to this pattern today

Existing Guards

  • What tests, contracts, or validation already exists for this area?
  • Why did existing guards miss these bugs?

Architectural Solutions

  • How do well-designed parts of the codebase prevent similar issues?
  • What structural pattern would make this class of bug impossible?
  • What's the minimum change that provides maximum coverage?

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 6d ago First seen · 128 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 71858df112e6

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design-guards is a skill published in the GitHub repository TalonT-Org/AutoSkillit (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 981 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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