component-design-documentation

What problem does it solve?

Documenting software components is time-consuming and error-prone, leading to misaligned expectations and costly rewrites.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Provides a standardized frontmatter schema (name, description, phase hints) for discovery and automation.
• Guides Phase 1 through Phase 17 planning (setup, responsibilities, interfaces, data, state, errors, concurrency, observability, and security).
• Captures trade-offs, open questions, and collaborators to support timely review and hand-offs.
• Supports diagram rendering and structured hand-offs to engineering workflows.

Quick Start

Draft a design document for a new authentication service.