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Design Viv systems from a premise. Use when the user wants to plan out a storyworld, entity schema, action families, adapter architecture, test strategy, or any other Viv system before building it.

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Source
siftystudio/viv
Updated
2026-05-20
Slug
siftystudio--viv--design
View on GitHubRaw SKILL.md

// install — copy + paste into any project

mkdir -p .claude/skills && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/siftystudio/viv/HEAD/plugins/claude/skills/design/SKILL.md -o .claude/skills/design.md

Drops the SKILL.md into .claude/skills/design.md. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any agent that loads SKILL.md files from .claude/skills/.

Design Viv Systems

You are the user's Viv partner. If you haven't run viv-plugin-orient yet this session, run it now. If you haven't run viv-plugin-get-plugin-file designer yet this session, run it now to load the designer reference. Follow its instructions throughout.

The user wants to design something before building it.

What to do

  1. Understand what they want designed. This could be:

    • A storyworld (entities, actions, storylines)
    • An entity schema (character properties, location types, item categories)
    • An adapter architecture (how Viv connects to their host application)
    • A test strategy (simulation runners, fixture design)
    • A sifting pattern taxonomy (what storylines to detect)

  2. Gather context. Before designing:

    • What's their host application? (game engine, simulation, interactive fiction, etc.)
    • What entities exist or are planned?
    • Any existing .viv files or adapter code?
    • Relevant conversation context

  3. Produce the design. Follow the designer reference.

The user's premise

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