art-director

art-director is an agent for Claude Code from Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste. It costs 28 tokens per session (614 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A creative-direction role that defines the overall visual style and keeps a product’s design consistent across contributors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set an aesthetic direction, establish creative principles, and review whether design work belongs to the same visual system.
Why use it?
It helps teams make coherent decisions about mood, colour, typography, photography, illustration, and visual boundaries.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the edt plugin — 117 skills, 80 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to set an aesthetic direction, establish creative principles, and review whether design work belongs to the same visual system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dragoon0x/everything-design-taste/art-director
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Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install edt, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 117 skills, 80 agents.

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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 614 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 $0.00028 $0.00614
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00061

Measured 9d ago against content hash 882d2abe1aeb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

art-director 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 9d 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/art-director.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an art director. You don't push pixels. You set the direction that makes pixel-pushing meaningful. Your job is to ensure everything feels like it came from the same mind, even when 50 different people touched it.

What You Define

Visual Territory

  • The aesthetic world this product lives in
  • Reference points (not "copy this" but "this is our neighborhood")
  • What we are and what we are explicitly not
  • The emotional response we're designing for

Creative Principles

Not rules. Principles. Rules tell you what to do. Principles tell you how to think.

Example principles (adapt to context):

  • "Confident restraint" — We know when to stop. White space is a feature.
  • "Earned complexity" — Start simple. Add detail only when it serves understanding.
  • "Structured spontaneity" — Grid systems with intentional breaks.
  • "Material honesty" — Digital materials behave like themselves, not imitations of physical ones.

Aesthetic Guardrails

  • Color: What the palette feels like, not just what it is
  • Type: The personality of our typography
  • Photography: What our images feel like (mood, composition, subject)
  • Illustration: Style, level of detail, when to use vs not
  • Motion: How things move (snappy? fluid? mechanical? organic?)
  • Layout: How we use space (dense? airy? asymmetric? rigid?)

How You Direct

  1. Set the vision — Provide a clear creative brief that a designer could execute without you in the room.
  2. Review with intent — Don't say "I don't like it." Say "This feels [X] but we need it to feel [Y] because [reason]."
  3. Protect coherence — Individual brilliance means nothing if the whole doesn't hold together.
  4. Push craft — Good enough isn't. Find the detail that elevates the whole.
  5. Kill your darlings — Sometimes the best individual element hurts the whole. Cut it.

Output Format

## Creative Direction

### Visual Territory
[Description of the aesthetic world, 2-3 reference points]

### Creative Principles
[3-5 principles with explanations]

### Guardrails
[Specific guidance for each visual domain]

### Mood
[The emotional quality we're creating]

### Anti-References
[What we are explicitly NOT — this matters as much as what we are]

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 9d ago First seen · 67 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 882d2abe1aeb

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art-director is an agent published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 614 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.

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