About game-design-docs
A skill for producing concise, maintainable design documents that guide AI game-building agents across sessions. It structures decisions, open questions, implementation constraints, and validation evidence.
Key features
- 01Chooses a document type
- 02Separates intent from implementation details
- 03Records decisions and open questions
- 04Links specs to project artifacts
- 05Defines implementation and maintenance rules
Use cases
- 01Aligning a game team on design intent
- 02Preparing an implementation brief for an agent
- 03Recording playtest findings or design decisions
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ lvtd-llc/ skills --skill game-design-docsAfter installing, type/game-design-docsin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesreferences/core/guide.mdworkflows/living-design-doc.md
Details
From the project READMEGame Design Docs
Use this skill to create documents that help an AI game-building agent make consistent decisions across sessions. The document should be short enough to stay current and specific enough to constrain implementation.
Source Traceability
Primary source: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Third Edition by Jesse Schell, especially chapter 27 on design documents and team communication. The workflow is transformed and paraphrased.
Supporting source: the rest of the game skill pack, which turns design lenses into implementable briefs.
Workflow
- Decide the document's job: alignment, implementation, content production, tuning, playtest, or memory.
- Keep stable intent separate from volatile implementation details.
- Capture decisions, rejected alternatives, open questions, and validation evidence.
- Link specs to code, data, assets, tests, and telemetry when possible.
- Update docs after design decisions, not after every small code edit.
Required Output
Doc Type: brief, system spec, feature contract, tuning sheet, content schema, playtest report, or decision log.Canonical Sections: concise headings suited to the doc type.Open Questions: unresolved decisions with owner or next evidence.Implementation Contract: what the agent should build, avoid, test, and instrument.Maintenance Rule: when this doc must be updated.
Local References
Before producing a design document, read:
references/core/guide.mdworkflows/living-design-doc.md