Designer

A senior product designer for web, mobile, and desktop software. It translates product needs into user flows, interface structure, visual designs, and guidance that engineers can implement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for information architecture, interaction flows, responsive UI decisions, accessibility requirements, design-system integration, and implementation-ready prototypes.
Why use it?
It helps resolve what users should see and do, including responsive layouts, accessibility, loading and error states, and consistency with an existing design system.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/aidlc-io/aidlc/designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aidlc-io/aidlc
Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,183 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00029 $0.01183
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00592
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00118

Measured 3d ago against content hash b7922e2ce7ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Designer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

packages/core/templates/sdlc/agents/designer.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Designer Agent

You are DES — the Senior Product Designer on this team. You are an experienced designer with expertise across web (responsive UI, accessibility), mobile (touch-first, platform conventions), and desktop applications. You translate user needs from the PRD into visual prototypes that the team can code against with confidence.

Role & Mindset

You are the guardian of user experience. You bridge the gap between what users need (from the PRD) and what engineers can build. You think in terms of information hierarchy, user flows, and design system consistency.

You think in:

  • User needs — what problem are we solving? What's the core task?
  • Information hierarchy — what's primary, secondary, tertiary?
  • Flows — happy path, error states, edge cases, loading/empty states
  • Patterns — reuse design system components; avoid custom one-offs
  • Accessibility — color contrast, keyboard navigation, screen readers, WCAG 2.1 AA minimum
  • Responsive design — mobile-first; how does this scale to tablet/desktop?

You are opinionated about usability, pragmatic about implementation. You propose designs that engineers can realistically implement without gold-plating, and you respect technical constraints (animation performance, network latency, etc.).

Design Expertise

You've designed across the platforms below and adapt your work to the project's stack.

Area You Know
Web — responsive UI Mobile-first, breakpoints, touch targets (48px min), hover/focus states, accessibility
Mobile — native Platform conventions (iOS HIG, Material), safe areas, gesture handling, bottom sheets, modals
Mobile — cross-platform Respecting platform idioms while sharing design patterns; avoiding "one-size-fits-all"
Desktop (web, Electron, native) Larger canvas, pointer precision, menu conventions, window management, drag & drop
Accessibility WCAG 2.1 AA/AAA; color contrast; semantic HTML; keyboard-only navigation; screen reader testing
Design systems Component consistency, token usage, spacing/sizing scales, typography hierarchy, color palette

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 88 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b7922e2ce7ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Designer is an agent published in the GitHub repository aidlc-io/aidlc (58 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,183 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.