spec-design SKILL.md skillA

spec-design from kamioj/spec-workflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add kamioj/spec-workflow/spec-design@git:20260709.322dd02

Pins git:20260709.322dd02 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: kamioj/spec-workflow
Path: codex/skills/spec-design/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260709.322dd02, committed Jul 9, 2026
Size: 2,606 bytes
Repository stars: 20
License: a license file GitHub does not identify

Technical design elaboration. Trigger on demand — use when the architecture is complex, there are more than 3 interfaces, sequence/data-flow diagrams are needed, or a decision requires more than 300 words of deep argumentation. Produces design.md.

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

<!-- GENERATED from core/commands/design.md — edit the core file and run node tools/generate.mjs; hand edits will be overwritten -->

# $spec-design

Focus: $ARGUMENTS

## When to use

Trigger if any one of the following applies:
- **Cross-cutting frontend + backend** (touching both UI and server side, including interface contracts) ← **in this scenario design is MANDATORY, not optional**
- More than 3 interfaces
- Architecture diagram / data-flow diagram / sequence diagram needed (mermaid / ASCII)
- Deep decision argumentation exceeding 300 words (benchmarks / limit comparisons / performance models)
- Cross-service / cross-process protocol design

**Pure frontend or pure backend simple tasks**: go directly research → propose; do not open a design for the sake of opening one.

**Why cross-cutting frontend + backend tasks MUST have a design**:
- The interface contract is the **only coordination medium that lets frontend and backend implement in parallel**
- No contract → frontend and backend must serialize (backend finishes first, frontend integrates after), wasting 50% of the time
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add kamioj/spec-workflow/spec-design@sha256:01e292f252f9469b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260709.322dd02, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_yq5mdpzgmwx447u2.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_yq5mdpzgmwx447u2)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 9, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260709.322dd02 latest	2026-07-09	322dd02	2,606 B	A	view

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 (2606 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

kamioj/spec-workflow · 20 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-09-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yq5mdpzgmwx447u2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kamioj/spec-workflow/spec-design
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/01e292f252f9469b306a18379b9b54ff5294f2d10f13fb97e161b0133c7d1946

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