design-it-twice SKILL.md skillA
design-it-twice from codybrom/clairvoyance is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add codybrom/clairvoyance/design-it-twice@git:20260919.b55f118Pins git:20260919.b55f118 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- codybrom/clairvoyance
- Path
skills/design-it-twice/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260919.b55f118, committed Sep 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 27, 2026
- Size
- 7,657 bytes
- Repository stars
- 15
- License
- MIT
Generates and compares at least two fundamentally different design alternatives on concrete criteria before committing. Use when the user asks to design something twice, or before committing to any significant design of classes, modules, APIs, or architecture. Also use when asked how to structure or architect a feature, or when writing the design or alternatives section of an RFC, design doc, or ADR. Not for judging strategic vs. tactical investment in existing code (use strategic-mindset) or…
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
# Design It Twice When invoked with $ARGUMENTS, treat the argument as the design problem to explore. Do not assume a solution. Start from the problem statement and generate at least two fundamentally different approaches independently. If the user or the codebase supplied a design, dispatch the `clean-room-alternative` agent (see Isolation Mode below) rather than trying to produce a second attempt yourself — a design already sitting in your context contaminates anything you write next, no matter how deliberately you try to ignore it. A design you drafted yourself while working on a fresh problem does not count as a supplied design: for a fresh problem, generate the alternatives directly. Then compare all approaches on concrete criteria. …
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How to install
mdr add codybrom/clairvoyance/design-it-twice@sha256:9a972625ff8a30a5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.b55f118, 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 27, 2026 and Sep 19, 2026, about one every 51 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260919.b55f118 latest | 2026-09-19 | b55f118 | 7,657 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260722.fcfda01 | 2026-07-22 | fcfda01 | 6,455 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260701.ba096c5 | 2026-07-01 | ba096c5 | 6,573 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260301.1854d20 | 2026-03-01 | 1854d20 | 5,908 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260227.455211b | 2026-02-27 | 455211b | 6,024 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 (7657 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
codybrom/clairvoyance · 15 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rmqz3np5u6tqywbe GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=codybrom/clairvoyance/design-it-twice GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9a972625ff8a30a586f1c298a17b9133a09e4c9eb116f9be3fe7d74fc67c2dc6
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