starting-a-design-plan SKILL.md skillA
starting-a-design-plan from ed3dai/ed3d-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/starting-a-design-plan@git:20260616.eb1d79cPins git:20260616.eb1d79c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ed3dai/ed3d-plugins
- Path
plugins/ed3d-plan-and-execute/skills/starting-a-design-plan/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260616.eb1d79c, committed Jun 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 3, 2026
- Size
- 15,402 bytes
- Repository stars
- 253
- License
- none declared
Use when beginning any design process - orchestrates gathering context, clarifying requirements, brainstorming solutions, and documenting validated designs to create implementation-ready design documents.
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
# Starting a Design Plan ## Overview Orchestrate the complete design workflow from initial idea to implementation-ready documentation through six structured phases: context gathering, clarification, definition of done, brainstorming, design documentation, and planning handoff. **Core principle:** Progressive information gathering -> clear understanding -> creative exploration -> validated design -> documented plan. **Announce at start:** "I'm using the starting-a-design-plan skill to guide us through the design process." ## Quick Reference | Phase | Key Activities | Output | |-------|---------------|--------| | **1. Context Gathering** | Ask for freeform description, constraints, goals, URLs, files | Initial context bundle | | **2. Clarification** | Invoke asking-clarifying-questions skill | Disambiguated requirements | | **3. Definition of Done** | Synthesize and confirm deliverables before brainstorming | Confirmed success criteria | | **4. Brainstorming** | Invoke brainstorming skill | Validated design (in conversation) | | **5. Design Documentation** | Invoke writing-design-plans skill | Committed design document | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/starting-a-design-plan@sha256:e562ee6eb8e1597bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260616.eb1d79c, 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 Feb 3, 2026 and Jun 16, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260616.eb1d79c latest | 2026-06-16 | eb1d79c | 15,402 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260217.3dac04d | 2026-02-17 | 3dac04d | 15,242 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260204.bd4341f | 2026-02-04 | bd4341f | 15,247 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260204.611bfd1 | 2026-02-04 | 611bfd1 | 14,010 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260203.0142d82 | 2026-02-03 | 0142d82 | 13,988 B | A | view |
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 (15402 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
ed3dai/ed3d-plugins · 253 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_npxfsp76zeeursjz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/starting-a-design-plan GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e562ee6eb8e1597bca102e9ad51e108fe5a4397dd83806f82b4e670238e81e67
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