k-design SKILL.md skillA
k-design from kasempiternal/k-stack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kasempiternal/k-stack/k-design@git:20260929.5c87f77Pins git:20260929.5c87f77 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kasempiternal/k-stack
- Path
kstack/skills/k-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260929.5c87f77, committed Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,072 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Design before implementing. Opus produces the data shape, interface, file plan, failure cases, tests, and verification commands for a change, and runs a competing-designs bakeoff when the design is contested or has no precedent. Use for architecture, system or API design, implementation plans, repo restructuring, RFC-grade decisions, or from k-mode before code that crosses a function boundary.
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
# K-design The output is a plan a `build` worker can execute without choosing between alternatives. ## 1. Ground If the subsystem was not explored this session, run **k-explore** first. Collect the constraints: user requirements, existing conventions, the callers that must keep working, performance or platform limits. ## 2. Design Dispatch one `design` worker with the constraints and file pointers. It returns: 1. **Data shape.** Core types and their owners. The organizing structure (state machine, typed model, registry, reducer) chosen over scattered conditionals, with the reason. 2. **Interface.** Signatures, inputs and outputs, errors, which existing helper or seam it plugs into. 3. **File plan.** Each file touched or created, and what changes in it. What gets deleted first. 4. **Failure cases.** Edge cases, concurrency, partial failure, retries, and how the design handles each. 5. **Tests.** Behavior-level cases with literal expected values, and where to stub. 6. **Verification.** The exact commands and the surface (k-e2e-qa, CLI run, a script) that prove it works. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add kasempiternal/k-stack/k-design@sha256:ae77d6c93c8f6983The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.5c87f77, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_izhficpo7nihl5dq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 29, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3072 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
kasempiternal/k-stack · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_izhficpo7nihl5dq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kasempiternal/k-stack/k-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ae77d6c93c8f69835af329de0a24336336bb714b8db9651924004bf12a05ef8f
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.