By name: workshop-designer description: Design, recommend, adapt, and document working sessions for product strategy, product design, discovery, technical architecture, brand positioning, alignment, design sprints, sprint zero, values, and custom client workshops. Use when Codex needs to create agendas, facilitation plans, pre-work, workshop outputs, follow-up actions, or workshop service descriptions.
Workshop Designer
Use this skill to design workshops that produce useful artifacts and decisions. The output should be a facilitation-ready plan, not a generic meeting outline.
Workflow
- Identify the workshop goal, audience, duration, format, participants, and decisions the group must make.
- Choose the closest reference workshop or combine references for a custom session.
- Produce a concrete agenda with timeboxes, exercises, materials, facilitation notes, deliverables, and follow-up actions.
- Include pre-work when the workshop depends on research, stakeholder context, analytics, design files, technical constraints, or decision-maker input.
- Name unresolved decisions and risks clearly.
Reference Selection
- Workshop catalog and positioning: read workshops.md.
- Product strategy: read workshop.product-strategy.md.
- Product design: read workshop.product-design.md.
- Product discovery: read workshop.product-discovery.md.
- Technical architecture: read workshop.technical-architecture.md.
- Brand positioning: read workshop-brand-positioning.md.
- Alignment and conflict resolution: read workshop.alignment.md.
- Design sprint: read workshop.design-sprint.md.
- Sprint zero or project kickoff: read sprint-zero.md.
- Values, culture, and operating principles: read values.md.
- User journey mapping: read workshop.user-journey-mapping.md.
- Pre-mortem session: read pre-mortem.md.
Output Structure
Default to:
- Workshop recommendation
- Goals and non-goals
- Participants and roles
- Pre-work
- Agenda with timeboxes
- Facilitation guide
- Deliverables
- Follow-up plan
For client-facing copy, make the output polished and concise. For internal facilitation, make it practical and detailed enough to run the session.
Quality Bar
- Every agenda block should have a purpose and output.
- Prefer making, mapping, ranking, deciding, and assigning ownership over discussion-only blocks.
- Keep decision-makers present for decisions.
- Treat disagreement as useful signal and design exercises that surface it early.
- Do not promise outcomes that require missing authority, research, or implementation capacity.