design-first
100 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try.
Guide structured design thinking through 5 progressive levels before any code is written. Levels: Capabilities, Components, Interactions, Contracts, Implementation. Use when building new features, refactoring significant code, designing modules, or when the user says 'design this', 'architect this', 'let's think before coding', 'walk me through the design', or 'whiteboard this'. For simple utilities enter at Level 4 (Contracts), for single-component tasks at Level 2 — see Complexity Calibration…
What this skill can do
We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.
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=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/techygarg/lattice' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'a772470df20aebdbfd9fa32c435901a876a750f0' -- 'skills/design-first' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/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.
Badge for your README
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | a772470 | 100 |
Also found in
- techygarg/lattice/source/atoms/design-first