Packinspo Skill

The Packinspo Skill teaches an agent how a packaging designer researches: start from real products, read what makes them work, then design or brief with evidence. It works best with Packinspo MCP connected.

Install

Claude Code plugin (MCP and skill together)

/plugin marketplace add packinspo/packinspo-skill
/plugin install packinspo@packinspo

Skill only

npx skills add https://github.com/packinspo/packinspo-skill --skill packinspo-research

Or copy skills/packinspo-research/ with its references/ folder into your agent's skills directory. Source: github.com/packinspo/packinspo-skill.

The method

1. Frame the brief: product, category, audience, price level, constraints, feeling.
2. Map the filters with list_taxonomy.
3. Search wide, then narrow: references in the category, plus one search outside it for a transferable idea.
4. Read before you borrow: full studies of the strongest references and one or two styles.
5. Extract patterns, not copies: why each reference fits and one move to borrow.
6. Decide a direction with what to do and what to avoid.
7. Check before handoff with the bundled checklist.

Rules the skill enforces

• Cite every reference with its Packinspo URL; never present a real brand's pack as your own design.
• Do not reproduce logos, illustrations or photos.
• Label typefaces as lookalikes and colours as sampled.
• No invented prices, lead times, suppliers, certifications or regulations; no health or medical claims.

Bundled references

• references/brief-template.md: direction, cited references, patterns, do, avoid, open questions.
• references/checklist.md: ten checks before a pack or brief goes to a designer or printer.