<NOTE> Use the $activate-memories skill if you have not already to get an overview of the project before proceeding. </NOTE> <objective> 1. If the design-docs folder does not already exist, create a repo-local design-docs/ workspace (templates + active docs + index). - If the design-docs folder already exists, stop and ask the user how to proceed. 2. Create a project-specific design doc template. If the user does not specify a specific type of design doc they want to create, we will be creating a general design document template called base-design-doc.md for the overall project. 3. Generate a…
Bootstrapping Design Docs is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the design-creative sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/bootstrapping-design-docs/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when setting up design docs for a new project or when the user mentions "bootstrapping-design-docs".
The Bootstrapping Design Docs Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 115,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/bootstrapping-design-docs curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/bootstrapping-design-docs/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/bootstrapping-design-docs/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/bootstrapping-design-docs/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/bootstrapping-design-docs/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\bootstrapping-design-docs\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/bootstrapping-design-docs/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Bootstrapping Design Docs is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{bootstrapping-design-docs-2026,
author = {ClaudSkills},
title = {Bootstrapping Design Docs [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/bootstrapping-design-docs/}
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