What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you produce high-quality formal Design Docs that capture rationale, trade-offs, and architectural intent without turning the document into ghostwritten implementation notes.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Template expansion for consistent structure: creates a Design Doc skeleton with the expected sections and metadata placeholders.
- Editor and sounding-board workflow: supports you by researching context, prompting for clarifications, and reviewing your draft for guideline adherence.
- Quality checks while you write: detects ambiguity, redundancy across sections, and missing or inconsistent guideline coverage.
- Clear “when to use” guidance: helps decide whether a design doc is warranted versus skipping straight to planning for smaller changes.
Use case example: You’re planning a cross-cutting architectural change affecting multiple components, and you need a Design Doc that future engineers can use to understand intent, constraints, and decision trade-offs.
Quick Start
Use the design-doc skill to produce a Design Doc outline for the topic "Async event routing for order processing".