Writing Design Docs

Produce a structured design document that captures what you're building, why, and how you'll verify it works. Output: docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md. This skill produces the artifact and stops.

Process

digraph design_doc {
    "Explore codebase & context" [shape=box];
    "Propose 2-3 approaches" [shape=box];
    "User selects approach" [shape=diamond];
    "Draft each section" [shape=box];
    "Write EARS requirements" [shape=box];
    "Present to user for review" [shape=box];
    "User approves?" [shape=diamond];
    "Write to docs/plans/" [shape=box];
    "Done" [shape=doublecircle];