What problem does it solve?
This Skill converts ambiguous or high-level product requirements into a concrete, implementation-ready technical design so engineering teams can move from WHAT to HOW with confidence and traceability.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Discovery-driven architecture: Runs full or light discovery to gather constraints, external API details, and codebase patterns that shape the design.
- Boundary-first design generation: Produces a draft design.md with explicit boundaries, file structure plans, component contracts, and test strategies to guide implementation.
- Research logging & synthesis: Persists discovery findings and design rationales to research.md and applies synthesis rules to produce build-vs-adopt decisions and simplifications.
- Use Case: Use when preparing designs for new features, complex integrations, or extensions that require requirement traceability, risk assessment, and rollout notes.
Quick Start
Run the kiro-spec-design skill for the feature name to generate a design draft, update research.md, and produce a file structure plan.