Design Review

Design Review is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by Donchitos in Claude-Code-Game-Studios.

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ai-agentsai-assisted-developmentanthropicclaudeclaude-codegame-designgame-developmentgamedevgodotindie-game-devunityunreal-engine

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Install Design Review

Copy Design Review into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/tree/main/.claude/skills/design-review ~/.claude/skills/design-review

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/design-review/SKILL.md in Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/design-review
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Design Review does

Design Review analyzes a game design document for completeness, internal consistency, implementability, and adherence to project design standards. Use it before handing a design document to programmers to catch gaps and broken references.

Design Review is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Design Review comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-assisted-development, anthropic, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Phase 0: Parse Arguments

Extract --depth [full|lean|solo] if present. Default is full when no flag is given.

Note: --depth controls the analysis depth of this skill (how many specialist agents are spawned). It is independent of the global review mode in production/review-mode.txt, which controls director gate spawning. These are two different concepts — --depth is about how thoroughly this skill analyses the document.

full: Complete review — all phases + specialist agent delegation (Phase 3b)
lean: All phases, no specialist agents — faster, single-session analysis
solo: Phases 1-4 only, no delegation, no Phase 5 next-step prompt — use when called from within another skill

Phase 1: Load Documents

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Design Review provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/clear
/design-review
/design-system
/review-all-gdds
/consistency-check

Frequently asked about Design Review

What else does Donchitos publish alongside Design Review?
Design Review is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adopt, Architecture Decision and Architecture Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Design Review does, and is maintained by Donchitos in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios page.
How does Design Review compare to other Quality skills?
Design Review ranks #135 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Design Review against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.