mav-create-solution-design

mav-create-solution-design is a skill for Claude Code from thermiteau/maverick. It costs 40 tokens per session (942 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for writing a solution design before changing code for a GitHub issue or other task. It involves reading the requirements, exploring the codebase, identifying affected areas, drafting the approach, and checking it against the requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare implementation plans for GitHub issues and coding tasks. It helps identify relevant files, risks, and missing requirements before development begins.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of implementing the wrong change or discovering important gaps after coding has started. Even a small fix gets a short design that confirms the problem and the affected code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the maverick plugin — 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare implementation plans for GitHub issues and coding tasks. It helps identify relevant files, risks, and missing requirements before development begins.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thermiteau/maverick/mav-create-solution-design
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 thermiteau/maverick --skill mav-create-solution-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thermiteau/maverick

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install maverick, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 942 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 $0.00040 $0.00942
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00471
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00094

Measured 8d ago against content hash 687a9c7d8a39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mav-create-solution-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 8d 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/mav-create-solution-design/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Solution Design

Produce a solution design before any implementation begins. The design validates the approach, surfaces risks early, and creates a shared understanding of what will be built.

When to Create a Design

Always. Even for small tasks. A design for a one-line fix might be two sentences, but it forces you to confirm you understand the problem and have identified the right place to make the change.

Process

digraph design {
    "Read the issue/task requirements" [shape=box];
    "Explore the codebase" [shape=box];
    "Identify affected areas" [shape=box];
    "Draft the design" [shape=box];
    "Validate against requirements" [shape=diamond];
    "Design complete" [shape=box];
    "Revise design" [shape=box];

    "Read the issue/task requirements" -> "Explore the codebase";
    "Explore the codebase" -> "Identify affected areas";
    "Identify affected areas" -> "Draft the design";
    "Draft the design" -> "Validate against requirements";
    "Validate against requirements" -> "Design complete" [label="all requirements addressed"];
    "Validate against requirements" -> "Revise design" [label="gaps found"];
    "Revise design" -> "Validate against requirements";
}

1. Read the Requirements

Extract from the issue or task:

  • What is being requested (the outcome)
  • Why it matters (the motivation)
  • Constraints or acceptance criteria
  • Any referenced files, APIs, or systems

2. Explore the Codebase

Use Glob, Grep, Read, and subagents to understand:

  • Where the relevant code lives
  • Existing patterns and conventions in the area
  • Related functionality that might be affected
  • Test coverage in the affected area
  • Dependencies (internal and external)

3. Identify Affected Areas

List every file, module, or system that will be created or modified. Be specific — name files, not just "the API layer".

4. Draft the Design

Use the structure below.

5. Validate Against Requirements

Walk through each requirement or acceptance criterion from the issue and confirm the design addresses it. If any are missed, revise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 8d ago First seen · 122 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 687a9c7d8a39

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mav-create-solution-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository thermiteau/maverick (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 942 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 2026-08-30.

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