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design from gufranco/claude-engineering-rules is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add gufranco/claude-engineering-rules/design@git:20261013.02cb8cd

Pins git:20261013.02cb8cd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
gufranco/claude-engineering-rules
Path
skills/design/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261013.02cb8cd, committed Oct 13, 2026
First version recorded
May 21, 2026
Size
13,088 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Design consultation, variant exploration, and design system scaffolding, with subcommands consult (default), variants, and system. Researches design patterns, proposes component hierarchies, generates design decisions document, and creates multiple visual approaches for comparison. Use when user says "design this", "design consultation", "design system", "component design", "design variants", "UI approach", "visual direction", or needs structured design thinking before implementation. For…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

## Overview

Structured design skill that front-loads design decisions before implementation. Produces a DESIGN.md document and, optionally, multiple visual approaches for comparison.

## When to Use

Run before implementation, while the direction is still open. `consult` settles one feature, `variants` compares directions side by side, and `system` sets the tokens and components the other two draw from.

### Subcommand Routing

| Invocation | Action |
|-----------|--------|
| `/design` or `/design consult <description>` | Design consultation (default) |
| `/design variants` | Generate multiple visual approaches |
| `/design system` | Scaffold a design system or component library |

If no subcommand is given, default to `consult`.

## Process

1. Route the invocation per Subcommand Routing.
2. Run that subcommand's Steps in order.
3. Write or update DESIGN.md, the per-feature file for `consult` and `variants`, the project file for `system`.
4. Present for approval and wait for the user before any implementation.

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## consult

Research design patterns in the ecosystem, propose a component hierarchy, and produce a DESIGN.md with decisions and rationale.

### When to use
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add gufranco/claude-engineering-rules/design@sha256:e23bf0b12ecee23b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.02cb8cd, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 21, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 36 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13088 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

gufranco/claude-engineering-rules · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5kabyqizrckclvgm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gufranco/claude-engineering-rules/design
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e23bf0b12ecee23bcd870fbf75c921e641dd1d55da07eaa8a425babe0277e85e

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