Challenge Start — Development skill for Claude Code
Step 1 — take the challenge prompt, choose which thinking skills apply, then frame the problem, the users and their jobs, and the principles.
How to install Challenge Start
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/michaelkopcsak-rgb-design-challenge-kit-challenge-start.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/michaelkopcsak-rgb/design-challenge-kit/HEAD/.claude/commands/challenge-start.md -o ~/.claude/commands/michaelkopcsak-rgb-design-challenge-kit-challenge-start.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Challenge Start does
description: Step 1 — take the challenge prompt, choose which thinking skills apply, then frame the problem, the users and their jobs, and the principles argument-hint: [paste the challenge prompt, or leave empty to use brief/BRIEF.md]
Step 1 of the design challenge workflow. Stages 1–3 in `framework/HOW-I-THINK.md`: **Frame**, **Users & jobs**, **Principles & bets**.
Prompt from Michael (may be empty): $ARGUMENTS
A. Brief (~5 min)
If a prompt was given, write it word for word int
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