awesome-design-doc SKILL.md skillA
awesome-design-doc from khasky/awesome-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-design-doc@git:20261019.a19c2a5Pins git:20261019.a19c2a5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- khasky/awesome-agent-skills
- Path
skills/awesome-design-doc/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 13
- Latest version
- git:20261019.a19c2a5, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 2, 2026
- Size
- 13,226 bytes
- Repository stars
- 30
- License
- MIT
Writes a design doc or ADR: requirements and scale first, real alternatives with trade-offs, a grounded recommendation, non-goals, migration path; also runs a pre-mortem on a plan. Use when choosing an approach.
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 Doc / ADR Turn a feature request or architectural question into a decision a team can execute and a future reader can retrace. The core discipline: requirements and numbers before components, real alternatives before a recommendation, and a recommendation before the end — a document that tours options without choosing is a meeting agenda, not a design. ## When to Activate - "Design X", "how should we build Y", "write a design doc / ADR / RFC". - A reviewer flagged a load-bearing decision that needs an ADR (awesome-code-review hands the format here). - Two credible approaches exist and the choice is expensive to reverse. Do not activate for reversible everyday choices (naming, a helper's location) — an ADR for those is noise; the three-condition test below decides. ## When an ADR is warranted All three, or don't write one: 1. Expensive to reverse — schema, public API shape, persisted format, event name, framework/storage choice, service boundary. 2. Crosses a boundary — more than one module, team, or service must honor it. 3. The context would be lost — six months from now, the "why" is not recoverable from the code. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-design-doc@sha256:d5017b28ffd9e746The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.a19c2a5, 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_xffzavzpjm52u32u)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 13 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| git:20261019.a19c2a5 latest | 2026-10-19 | a19c2a5 | 13,226 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.a4259a5 | 2026-10-18 | a4259a5 | 13,267 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261010.3b37a6b | 2026-10-10 | 3b37a6b | 13,274 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261010.d665010 | 2026-10-10 | d665010 | 12,391 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.eca990b | 2026-09-25 | eca990b | 11,111 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.d850440 | 2026-09-25 | d850440 | 11,215 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.427dc55 | 2026-09-18 | 427dc55 | 11,531 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.e5449eb | 2026-09-12 | e5449eb | 11,218 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.ad72ad4 | 2026-09-10 | ad72ad4 | 10,188 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260908.653b09a | 2026-09-08 | 653b09a | 10,240 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.948870f | 2026-09-05 | 948870f | 8,740 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.a220546 | 2026-08-02 | a220546 | 6,951 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.7f75e7d | 2026-08-02 | 7f75e7d | 6,285 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 (13226 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
khasky/awesome-agent-skills · 30 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xffzavzpjm52u32u GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-design-doc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d5017b28ffd9e746aeea5ffbbd8aec8a6d951cfe0286b0e86106e0b3e695e614
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