A Claude skill suite modeling three public roles Joe Gebbia has occupied — the Chief Design Officer of the National Design Studio under EO 14338, the 0-to-1 founder of the Autonomous Venture Studio, and the designer-technologist behind spatial-motion and XR prototyping.
Suite version: 1.2.0 · Status: Draft · License: TBD
Government services should feel modern, coherent, easy to use, and worthy of national confidence.
🎨 Live specimen: augustave.github.io/NDS 📦 Download: v1.2.0 release (zip)
Three skills under one umbrella. Each one models a distinct public role. None of them impersonates Joe Gebbia as a private person. Each ships with its own doctrine, SWARM topology, and worked output examples.
| # | Skill | Role facet | Domain | Internal version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joe-gebbia-nds-chief-design-officer |
Civic CDO under EO 14338 | Public-sector service modernization | 1.1.0 |
| 2 | autonomous-venture-studio |
Founder / 0-to-1 | Private-sector venture incubation | 1.1.0 |
| 3 | spatial-motion-genai-architect |
Designer-technologist | R&D / XR / immersive prototyping | 1.1.0 |
Each skill keeps its own identity, doctrine, KB (if any), schema, and version. The suite-level coordinator document is SUITE.md.
| If your work is… | Use |
|---|---|
| Modernizing a federal service or strategic document | CDO skill |
| Taking a 0-to-1 venture brief from concept to launch-ready | Autonomous Venture Studio |
| Producing an XR sandbox / motion narrative / immersive demo | Spatial-Motion |
| Crossing public + private + R&D boundaries in a single brief | All three — see SUITE.md |
| Example | Skill(s) | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| IRS Payment Portal | CDO (SKILL.md) | Single-skill run · Speed vs. Compliance |
| FEMA Disaster Recovery | CDO (SWARM.md) | 10-agent swarm · Aesthetic Authority vs. Local Context · 3 blocking red flags |
| Passport Modernization | All three | Full suite chain · CDO → AVS → Spatial-Motion · named handoffs |
| Document Redesigns → | CDO | Redesigns of real federal documents · ONI Russian Navy 2015 (hydrographic aesthetic) · ODNI ATA 2025 (Wunderkammer aesthetic, first Phase 4 service redesign) |
These pillars belong to the CDO skill. AVS and Spatial-Motion carry their own doctrines.
- Make the government legible. Where am I, what can I do, what's needed, what happens next, who is responsible.
- Cut useless friction. Keep necessary friction. Remove duplicate forms, repeated logins, PDF-only flows. Preserve identity verification, fraud prevention, appeal rights.
- Design consistency is public infrastructure. USWDS is not decoration.
- Design for the citizen under stress. Retirement, taxes, disability, immigration, disaster recovery.
- Connect the screen to the room. Digital flows must map to paper forms, signage, front-desk scripts, kiosks.
- AI as acceleration. Not authority. AI does not adjudicate eligibility, certify accessibility, or replace human escalation.
- Standardize without erasing local context. Tribal nations, rural/offline users, multilingual communities, disability-specific service lines.
Grounded in actual statute and standard. The CDO skill names these explicitly; it is not a substitute for legal counsel.
- EO 14338 — "Improving Our Nation Through Better Design" (Aug 21, 2025)
- Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (2018 ICT Refresh, harmonized with WCAG 2.0 AA)
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (2018)
- Plain Writing Act of 2010
- U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)
| You want to… | Use |
|---|---|
| Run a quick advisory assessment of a federal service | Load CDO SKILL.md; reference NDS_KB.md |
| Do a full multi-disciplinary government service redesign | Load CDO SWARM.md; run 10-agent workflow |
| Incubate a 0-to-1 venture concept | Load autonomous-venture-studio/SKILL.md; run 3-node loop |
| Build a spatial / XR / motion prototype | Load spatial-motion/SKILL.md; run 4-cell workflow |
| Decide which skill applies | Read SUITE.md |
| See the full chain end-to-end | Read Passport Modernization |
| Share the suite | Distribute the v1.2.0 zip |
This suite does not attempt to reproduce private thoughts, personal beliefs, or undisclosed strategy from Joe Gebbia. It models three public roles, three public mandates, and three public design postures based on available research.
It is illustrative — not an official deliverable from the National Design Studio, the State Department, the Department of Defense, or any other agency. Not legal advice. Not a procurement recommendation.
NDS/
├── README.md ← you are here (suite-level)
├── index.html redirect → promo specimen
├── joe_gebbia_nds_skill_package.zip v1.2.0 distributable
└── joe_gebbia_nds_skill_package/
├── README.md package-level readme
├── SUITE.md suite coordinator (decision flow)
├── SKILL.md CDO single-agent skill
├── SWARM.md CDO 10-agent orchestration
├── NDS_KB.md CDO canonical knowledge base
├── hello-nds.html editorial promo specimen
├── autonomous-venture-studio/ AVS skill (peer)
│ ├── SKILL.md
│ ├── SWARM.md
│ ├── PRD.yaml
│ ├── common-schema.yaml
│ ├── agents/
│ ├── references/
│ └── scripts/
├── spatial-motion/ Spatial-Motion skill (peer)
│ ├── SKILL.md
│ ├── SWARM.md
│ ├── PRD.yaml
│ └── common-schema.yaml
└── examples/
├── irs-payment-portal-assessment.md CDO single-skill run
├── fema-disaster-recovery-swarm.md CDO swarm run
└── cross-skill-passport-modernization.md full suite chain (NEW)
Three public roles. Three skills. One suite. Built for the NDS mandate, the founder posture, and the designer-technologist practice.