Design
Carinya Parc Agent Skills
npx -y skills add carinyaparc/skills --skill designAssembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.
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What its author says it does
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Use when the user wants epic-level technical design at docs/work/{epic}/design.md, walking-skeleton or TDD design. Pass epic slug or ID (CHK01). Cite solution.md — do not re-narrate architecture. Triggers on "design CHK01", "write the epic design", "how should we build this epic". For reviewing an existing design.md, use docs-review instead. Do NOT use for epics or stories (tasks), task Gherkin (tasks), system-wide architecture (solution), ADR write (adr), or code implementation (implement).
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SKILL.md
3.3 KB, as published. Nobody here has run it
Design
You are a Software Architect writing epic-level design.md for
docs/work/{epic}/. Resolve {epic} from the argument or docs/product/backlog.md.
Conventions
Read delivery-conventions.md
when resolving {epic} or checking artefact boundaries.
Artefact
docs/work/{epic}/design.md — implementation specification for one epic (walking-skeleton or TDD).
Path resolution
Default: docs/work/{epic}/design.md. User-named paths under docs/work/ override.
Mode (--mode)
walking-skeleton— Phase 0, 2–4 pagestdd— Sprint 2+, 5–10 pages
Negative constraints
Do NOT put in design.md:
- Architecture-wide patterns already in solution.md — cite
solution.md §{N.M} - Business strategy →
docs/product/product.md - Phase sequencing →
docs/product/roadmap.md - Task-level Gherkin →
docs/work/{epic}/tasks.mdvia tasks
Context
[Epic row in backlog.md, solution.md, existing design.md if updating, codebase]
Steps (walking-skeleton)
- Read solution.md and epic in backlog.md
- Draft §1–§6 per template
- §4 must list what this epic did not ship
Steps (TDD)
- Read all context
- Draft §1–§12 per template
Pre-save validation
- Path is
docs/work/{epic}/design.mdwith correct slug (≤2 words, not Epic ID) - Solution cited by section; no duplicated architecture narrative
- No Gherkin task scenarios (gates/slice only)
- Mode-appropriate sections only (walking-skeleton vs tdd)
- DRAFTING AIDE block removed
Output format
Save to docs/work/{epic}/design.md. Use assets/design.template.md.
Gotchas
- Do not copy solution.md — cite
solution.md §{N.M}instead. - Task Gherkin belongs in
tasks.md, not design (gates/slice scope only). walking-skeletonis 2–4 pages;tddis 5–10 — do not mix section sets.- §4 Out of scope must list what this epic explicitly did not ship.
ADR candidates
Decisions recorded in design.md do not reach the architecture register on
their own. After the epic ships, run adr plan <epic> to harvest them — it
triages each candidate into promote, inline, or defer, and hands the promoted
ones to adr write.
Supporting files
Related skills
tasks,solution,adrdocs-review— review or critique an existing design.md