Design Leadership Skills Collection

> Part of the Designer Skills suite. > Install this collection and four more with one command in Claude Code: > > /plugin marketplace add Owl-Listener/designer-skills > > This repo still works on its own. The suite just gives everyone one front door.

Agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design leadership — from people and teams to strategy, influence, operating cadence, and the craft of leading. 32 skills and 12 commands across 6 plugins for Claude Code.

Plugins

| Plugin | Skills | Commands | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | people-management | 6 | 2 | Manage and grow people: 1:1s, feedback, growth plans, performance reviews, career ladders, and difficult conversations. | | team-building | 6 | 2 | Build the team: hiring loops, job specs, portfolio review, onboarding, team topology, and psychological safety. | | design-strategy | 5 | 2 | Set direction: design vision, strategy documents, org-level design principles, investment cases, and portfolio prioritisation. | | org-influence | 5 | 2 | Influence the organisation: executive narrative, influence mapping, design advocacy, securing resources, and managing up. | | operating-cadence | 5 | 2 | Run the operating system: design reviews at scale, planning cadence, decision frameworks, delegation, and operating rhythm. | | leadership-craft | 5 | 2 | Lead yourself: self-leadership, change leadership, conflict resolution, mentorship, and leadership ethics. |

Quick Start

Claude Code

Step 1: Add the marketplace

/plugin marketplace add Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills

Step 2: Install plugins

/plugin

Open the Discover tab to see all 6 plugins, then install the ones you want.

Gemini CLI

Install individual plugins as workspace-scoped extensions:

git clone https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills /tmp/design-leadership-skills
mkdir -p .gemini/extensions
cp -r /tmp/design-leadership-skills/.gemini/extensions/. .gemini/extensions/

What Are Skills and Commands?

• Skills are domain knowledge units (nouns). They teach the model about one topic.
• Commands are workflows (verbs). They chain skills together to do a job.

All Commands

| Command | Plugin | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | /people-management:prep-one-on-one | people-management | Prepare a meaningful 1:1. | | /people-management:run-review-cycle | people-management | Run a performance review cycle for the team. | | /team-building:open-a-role | team-building | Define a role and stand up the hiring loop. | | /team-building:onboard-hire | team-building | Build an onboarding plan for a new hire. | | /design-strategy:set-strategy | design-strategy | Develop a design strategy end to end. | | /design-strategy:make-the-case | design-strategy | Build an investment case for design. | | /org-influence:build-narrative | org-influence | Build an executive narrative to win support. | | /org-influence:secure-resources | org-influence | Prepare a headcount or budget ask. | | /operating-cadence:set-cadence | operating-cadence | Design the team's operating cadence. | | /operating-cadence:run-design-review | operating-cadence | Run a scaled design review process. | | /leadership-craft:lead-change | leadership-craft | Plan and lead a change initiative. | | /leadership-craft:resolve-conflict | leadership-craft | Work through a team conflict. |

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.