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Skill Design Guide Skill
by
haiyangchen
· GitHub ↗
· v1.3.3
· MIT-0
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/install skill-design-guide-skill
Description
Design better AI skills with proven architecture patterns. Helps you decide Workflow vs Agent, pick the right pattern (Prompt Chaining, Routing, Parallelizat...
Usage Guidance
This skill is a documentation-only design guide and appears coherent and low-risk: it asks for nothing sensitive and contains no executable install steps. Before installing, verify the source repo (homepage link) if provenance matters, review the trigger keywords so it only loads when you want it, and treat its recommendations as guidance (not enforcement). If you plan to use its templates in production, apply your own security and access guardrails for any scripts/tools you implement based on the guide.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill
Name: skill-design-guide-skill
Version: 1.3.3
The bundle is an educational resource providing architectural guidance and design patterns for building AI skills based on industry best practices from Anthropic and OpenAI. It contains markdown documentation, quality checklists, and templates (SKILL.md, SKILL_zh.md). While the metadata requests broad tool permissions including 'execute_command' and 'write_to_file', the instructions are purely advisory and focused on assisting the user with skill design and review. No evidence of malicious intent, data exfiltration, or harmful prompt injection was found.
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Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
Name/description (skill design guide) match the actual contents: an architecture decision guide and checklist. The skill requires no env vars, binaries, or installs, which is proportionate for a documentation/guide skill.
Instruction Scope
SKILL.md contains design guidance, patterns, checklists and trigger keywords. It does not instruct the agent to read unrelated system files, access credentials, or transmit data to external endpoints. References are local files included in the repo and meant for on-demand reading as part of design guidance.
Install Mechanism
No install specification and no code files — this is instruction-only. That is the lowest-risk install posture and appropriate for a documentation-style skill.
Credentials
The skill declares no required environment variables, credentials, or config paths. Nothing requested is disproportionate to its purpose as a design guide.
Persistence & Privilege
Flags: always=false (default), user-invocable=true, disable-model-invocation=false. These defaults are normal for a user-invocable skill. The skill does not request persistent system privileges or attempt to modify other skills' configs.
How to Use
- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install skill-design-guide-skill - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/skill-design-guide-skill - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.3.3
Optimize Chinese description in SKILL_zh.md; remove emojis from headings
v1.3.2
Optimize description for search discovery; add homepage URL; move trigger keywords to read_when
v1.3.1
Version 1.3.1
- Documentation updated in README.md with no changes to skill code or logic.
- No changes to SKILL.md—functionality and guidance remain unchanged.
- Maintains existing architecture overview, workflow patterns, and usage instructions.
- No new features or breaking changes introduced.
v1.3.0
Version 1.3.0 of skill-design-guide-skill
- Added SKILL_zh.md for Chinese-language documentation.
- Introduced _meta.json metadata file.
- Enhanced and clarified SKILL.md with decision frameworks, 25-point checklist, and explicit comparison to related tools.
- Added "Brain/Hands/Session" design principle section.
- Improved guidance on workflow/agent decision, workflow pattern selection, and skill structure.
- Removed .github/FUNDING.yml.
v1.0.0
skill-design-guide-skill v1.0.0
- Introduces a comprehensive design guide and quality checklist for creating Skills and Agents.
- Enforces a "Simplicity First" principle, emphasizing minimalism and progressive complexity only when necessary.
- Provides clear criteria to choose between Workflow and Agent architectures, with detailed workflow pattern options.
- Supplies a SKILL.md template with required and optional sections for effective skill structuring.
- Includes a step-by-step quality checklist addressing structure, principles, tools, guardrails, and observability.
- Lists common anti-patterns to avoid, promoting best engineering practices distilled from leading AI organizations.
Metadata
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Skill Design Guide Skill?
Design better AI skills with proven architecture patterns. Helps you decide Workflow vs Agent, pick the right pattern (Prompt Chaining, Routing, Parallelizat... It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 157 downloads so far.
How do I install Skill Design Guide Skill?
Run "/install skill-design-guide-skill" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is Skill Design Guide Skill free?
Yes, Skill Design Guide Skill is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does Skill Design Guide Skill support?
Skill Design Guide Skill is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created Skill Design Guide Skill?
It is built and maintained by haiyangchen (@haiyangchenbj); the current version is v1.3.3.
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