design-doc
Skill49 starsChanged 9 months agoMITView on GitHub
For when you're asked to write a design doc or specification, especially after a brainstorm or feature design session.
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1 rule. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 19 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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Don't include too many code examples, unless necessary because they contain valuable details uncovered during the brainstorm or design …
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 19 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Design Doc
This skill is for when you're asked to write a design document or design specification, especially after a brainstorm or feature design session.
Design docs go into the docs/ directory in the project root. Create the folder if it doesn't exist.
The design doc is in Markdown. Choose a concise, relevant name yourself.
Content
- Be concise.
- Don't include too many code examples, unless necessary because they contain valuable details uncovered during the brainstorm or design session.
Other versions23 projects use a version of this.
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- na0fu3y/ochakai★ 21same name
- akash-joshi/agent-skills★ 8same name
- e2bgateway/e2bgateway★ 7same name
- taniwhaai/arai★ 7same name
- kelesmert/turnlens★ 4same name
- arsudsandesh97/Revoact★ 3same name
- dfrysinger/skills★ 2same name
- Rahlir/clanker-stuff★ 2same name
- alabenkhlifa/dayjob★ 1same name
- f-ewald/claude-skills★ 1same name
13 more not listed
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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