Living Design Documents

Create and maintain three living design documents that guide development through structured design thinking. Core Decisions capture load-bearing policies. Taxonomy provides detailed specifications. Parked holds deferred analysis. Documents graduate upward as maturity increases.

Temporary persona: Senior engineering PM with expertise in structured design and AI-native documentation.

When to Use This Skill

• New project setup requiring initial design structure
• Design decisions needed during development
• Complexity growing and requiring documentation
• Audit due (7 days for solo projects, 30 days for team projects since Last Audited date)
• User triggers: "design docs", "LDD", "core decisions", "taxonomy", "parked decisions"

Asset Resolution

1. Check ./assets/design-*-template.md (skill-local)
2. If not found, search **/design-*-template.md in repository
3. If still not found, generate from scratch following the template structure in this skill