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design-first

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By rohitg00/skillkit (GitHub) · design · 1,577 stars · scanned at commit d2e5c34

Guides the creation of technical design documents before writing code, producing architecture diagrams, data models, API interface definitions, implementation plans, and multi-option trade-off analyses. Use when the user asks to plan a feature, architect a system, design an API, explore implementation approaches, or requests a technical design or spec before coding — especially for complex features involving multiple components, ambiguous requirements, or significant architectural changes.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'design-first' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'design-first' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named design-first already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/rohitg00/skillkit' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'd2e5c346f73325c326820efd3188dcf2b6eb704f' -- 'packages/core/src/methodology/packs/planning/design-first' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'packages/core/src/methodology/packs/planning/design-first' ~/.agents/skills/'design-first' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'design-first' ~/.claude/skills/'design-first' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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