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Dev Design

by codeaholicguy

Dev Design is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by codeaholicguy in ai-devkit.

1.6K stars242 forkson codeaholicguy/ai-devkitAdded 2026/08/19Repository updated 2026/08/18
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Install Dev Design
Copy Dev Design 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/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit/tree/main/skills/dev-design ~/.claude/skills/dev-design

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/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
skills/dev-design/SKILL.md in codeaholicguy/ai-devkit
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/dev-design
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Quality1354 skills

What Dev Design does

Dev Design runs the design review phase for configured AI docs features. Use it to validate architecture, review design docs, resolve trade-offs, or run dev-lifecycle phase 3.

Dev Design is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Dev Design comes from a repository tagged agent-framework, agent-skills, ai, ai-agents and ai-coding.

Documentation

README

Dev Design

Run the design review phase for configured AI docs features. Before changing docs or code, propose the concrete plan for this phase and wait for user approval unless the user already approved the exact phase plan.

Phase Contract

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

Frequently asked about Dev Design

  • What else does codeaholicguy publish alongside Dev Design?

    Dev Design is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from codeaholicguy/ai-devkit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Communication, Agent Management and Agent Orchestration. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Dev Design does, and is maintained by codeaholicguy in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the codeaholicguy/ai-devkit page.

  • How does Dev Design compare to other Quality skills?

    Dev Design ranks #627 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 Dev Design against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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