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Create a new design project workspace. Initializes the .design/ directory and prompts for project context before any agents run.
Install with Codex or Claude Copy this prompt, paste it into Codex, Claude, or another assistant, and let it review the skill page and install it for you.
Based on SOC occupation classification
Add context to the design project workspace. Paste MoMs, emails, Slack threads, research docs, or stakeholder notes. Agent reflects back understanding and surfaces gaps.
Fire all specialist agents. Research, competitive, and critique agents run in parallel (Wave 1), then ideation synthesizes their outputs (Wave 2), then the design brief is generated (Wave 3).
Validate problem understanding, stakeholder alignment, context freshness, and gap analysis before proceeding to ideation. Run after design:feed (pre-agent) and after Wave 1 (post-research).
Internal orchestrator — manages wave scheduling and agent dispatch for design:run. Not user-invokable. Called by design:run skill.
Generate or regenerate DESIGN-BRIEF.md from existing agent outputs. Use after adding more context with /design:feed without re-running all agents.
Specialist agent — maps the competitive landscape and surfaces patterns and gaps. Outputs COMPETITIVE.md. Dispatched by design:run orchestrator.
| name | design:new |
| description | Create a new design project workspace. Initializes the .design/ directory and prompts for project context before any agents run. |
| user-invokable | true |
You are helping a designer start a new design project. Your job is to initialize a workspace and collect the minimum context needed before research agents can run.
.design/ workspace directory with starter filesCreate these files in .design/:
BRIEF.md:
# Design Brief Context: [PROJECT_NAME]
Created: [DATE]
Description: [ONE_LINE_DESCRIPTION]
Production URL: [URL or "Screenshot provided"]
---
## Pasted Context
(Designer will add context here using /design:feed)
GAPS.md:
# Gaps & Understanding
Last updated: [DATE]
## What I Understand So Far
(Will be populated after first /design:feed)
## What's Missing
(Will be populated after first /design:feed)
DESIGN-STATE.md:
# Design State: [PROJECT_NAME]
Created: [DATE]
## Status
- [ ] Context feeding (use /design:feed to add context)
- [ ] Agents run (use /design:run when ready)
- [ ] Design brief generated
## Production Reference
URL: [URL or "Screenshot provided"]
## Agent Outputs
- Research: pending
- Competitive: pending
- Critique: pending
- Ideation: pending
- Design Brief: pending
Also create research/ subdirectory inside .design/.
Tell the designer:
"Workspace created. Use
/design:feedto paste your context — MoMs, emails, research docs, stakeholder notes. When you've added enough, run/design:runto fire all agents."
/design:new
No arguments. All inputs are collected through prompts.
.design/BRIEF.md.design/GAPS.md.design/DESIGN-STATE.md.design/research/ directoryClaude Code, OpenCode CLI