How do I install the Develop Design Rationale Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/develop-design-rationale/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

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Develop Design Rationale

Category: Product · Sub-category: product-misc · Last updated: 2026-05-21

Documents the reasoning behind design decisions including alternatives considered, trade-offs evaluated, and principles applied. Use when making significant UX decisions, aligning with stakeholders on design direction, or preserving design context for future reference.

From the source SKILL.md

# Design Rationale

What this skill does

Develop Design Rationale is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the product-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/develop-design-rationale/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when making significant UX decisions, aligning with stakeholders on design direction, or preserving design context for future reference.

Who uses this skill

The Develop Design Rationale Claude Code skill is built for product managers, product designers, and cross-functional teams planning, shipping, and measuring product features. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/develop-design-rationale
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/develop-design-rationale/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/develop-design-rationale/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/develop-design-rationale/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/develop-design-rationale/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\develop-design-rationale\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

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Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills
License: Apache-2.0
Author: product-on-purpose

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Develop Design Rationale

From the source SKILL.md

What this skill does

Who uses this skill

How to install

Manual install (2 steps)

One-click install via the desktop app

Attribution & license

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