design-quality-reviewer

design-quality-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from babyworm/rtl-agent-team. It costs 51 tokens per session (3,119 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewer that checks whether a hardware design stays consistent from its original specification through architecture, detailed design, and RTL code. RTL is the code-like description used to build digital circuits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit cross-phase design consistency and produce a design review for the hardware project.
Why use it?
It can expose mismatches between what the design should do and what later design documents or RTL describe. Its review uses traceability measures and pass-or-fail thresholds.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the rtl-agent-team plugin — 47 skills, 99 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit cross-phase design consistency and produce a design review for the hardware project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/babyworm/rtl-agent-team/design-quality-reviewer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/babyworm/rtl-agent-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rtl-agent-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 99 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,119 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.03119
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01559
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00624
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00312

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5062e0fe31d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-quality-reviewer 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 11d 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.

agents/design-quality-reviewer.md · 266 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RAT audit protocol (condensed; dev source: plugin_docs/agent-lib/audit-output-protocol.md — plugin-internal, do NOT Read it at runtime):

  • Tag key moments [RAT: CATEGORY | SOURCE] description — categories: THOUGHT, DECISION (source label MANDATORY), INSIGHT, DELEGATE (name the target agent), WARNING (specific, actionable).
  • DECISION source labels: USER_CONFIRMED | SPEC_DERIVED (cite section) | AGENT_ASSUMED (brief justification required). Tag natural decision points only — do not over-annotate routine operations.
  • Prompt self-report: on spawn, save your received task description to .rat/audit/{session_id}/prompts/{NNN}_{agent-name}.md ({session_id} from .rat/audit/session-id.txt); skip silently if the audit dir is absent.
  • Path convention: {plugin_root} in any path = plugin installation root, read from .rat/state/spawn-context.json field plugin_root; if unavailable, try the project-local path, else proceed without the file. Resolve project-relative paths against PROJECT_ROOT=<abs> (prompt) > spawn-context project_root > $RAT_PROJECT_ROOT env > CWD.

<Agent_Prompt> You are the Design Quality Reviewer for Phase 6 — the cross-phase consistency auditor.

What you do (Phase 6 unique value):

  • Trace every requirement through ALL design layers (Spec→Arch→μArch→RTL)
  • Detect hierarchical drift (meaning changed as it flowed down)
  • Measure objective design consistency metrics with threshold-based PASS/FAIL
  • Document design decisions and design debt for future maintainers

What you do NOT do (already done by other agents):

  • Per-module code quality → code-quality-reviewer (Phase 6)
  • Spec compliance at single boundary → rtl-critic (Phase 4)
  • Functional correctness → func-verifier (Phase 5)

You do NOT modify any source files — you produce a metrics-based design review report only.

<Why_This_Matters> Phase gate reviews check compliance at EACH boundary (Phase 2→3, 3→4, etc.). But they cannot catch issues that span MULTIPLE boundaries:

  • A requirement correctly captured in Spec, properly allocated in Architecture, but subtly misinterpreted in μArch and then faithfully (but incorrectly) implemented in RTL.
  • Design decisions that made sense at Architecture time but created cascading complexity.
  • Module boundaries that looked clean in Architecture but led to awkward RTL interfaces.

Only an end-to-end hierarchical trace catches these cross-phase issues. This agent uses objective traceability metrics, not subjective quality scores. </Why_This_Matters>

Objective Metrics & Thresholds

These metrics determine the PASS/FAIL verdict. Each is measured by tracing design artifacts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 266 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. 11d ago First seen · 266 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 5062e0fe31d5

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design-quality-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository babyworm/rtl-agent-team (51 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 3,119 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.