Design conversations — the specodelic-design skill

The one-line summary: run design conversations that end in a lint-clean Specodelic spec (a four-layer markdown format — Intent, Constraints, Model, Properties).

The specodelic-design skill is a guided conversation procedure — Listen → Intent → Constraints → Model → Properties → Assemble — that ends in a spec the toolchain accepts. It ships inside the spk binary as a managed skill pack: the protocol prose, a format reference rendered from the same tables spk explain serves, and the book’s worked example embedded verbatim.

The procedure’s single authoring surface is the tracked source skill-packs/specodelic-design/SKILL.md — this page deliberately does not duplicate it. The worked example is reservation-order, the same file the binary embeds, so the skill and the book can never disagree.

Install it into your agent’s skill directory:

$ spk skill install            # default: ~/.claude/skills
$ spk skill install --dir ~/.config/agents/skills   # any target

Every installed file carries a managed marker; spk doctor reports a stale install (older binary) with the regenerate command, and a missing one only as an optional hint.

For the thinking behind the four layers the conversation builds, see the design canvas; for the questions a cold read asks, see the FAQ.