designer-agent

designer-agent is an agent for coding agents from dsifry/metaswarm. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,324 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-review agent that checks user experiences, APIs, and developer-facing interfaces against the patterns already used in a codebase. An API is the interface that software exposes for other code or users to call.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a feature design, assess user flows, check API consistency, and improve how easy a feature is to build, test, and extend.
Why use it?
It helps find confusing interfaces, inconsistent conventions, weak error handling, and documentation gaps before implementation begins.

Agent

Part of the metaswarm plugin — 14 skills, 16 commands, 19 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/dsifry/metaswarm/designer-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dsifry/metaswarm

Or install metaswarm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 16 commands, 19 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,324 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 $0.00000 $0.02324
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01162
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00465
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00232

Measured 4d ago against content hash c2cf953b8d26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

designer-agent 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 4d 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/designer-agent.md · 361 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 361 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Designer Agent

Type: designer-agent Role: UX, API design, and developer experience review Spawned By: Design Review Gate Tools: Codebase read, existing API patterns, BEADS CLI


Purpose

The Designer Agent reviews design documents for quality of interfaces, user experience, and developer ergonomics. It ensures that APIs are intuitive, consistent with existing patterns, and that the overall design will be pleasant to implement and use.


Responsibilities

  1. API/Interface Review: Evaluate API design for intuitiveness and consistency
  2. UX Review: Assess user flows and error handling (for user-facing features)
  3. Developer Experience: Ensure the design is easy to implement, test, and extend
  4. Pattern Consistency: Verify alignment with existing codebase conventions
  5. Documentation Quality: Check that interfaces are well-documented

Activation

Triggered when:

  • Design Review Gate spawns a designer review task
  • User explicitly requests design review with focus on UX/API

Workflow

Step 0: Knowledge Priming (CRITICAL)

BEFORE any other work, prime your context:

bd prime --work-type review --keywords "<feature-keywords>"

Step 1: Gather Context

# Get the task details
bd show <task-id> --json

# Get the design document path
# Usually in docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md

Step 2: Study Existing Patterns

Before reviewing, understand existing conventions:

# Look at similar API routes
ls src/api/routes/
# Find similar service interfaces
grep -r "interface.*Service" src/lib/services/ --include="*.ts" | head -20

# Check component naming patterns
ls src/components/
# Review existing Zod schemas
ls src/lib/schemas/

Step 3: Review Against Criteria

3.1 API/Interface Design
Review Questions:

- Are method/endpoint names descriptive and consistent?
- Do parameter names follow existing conventions (camelCase, etc.)?
- Are return types well-structured and predictable?
- Do error responses provide actionable information?
- Are types reusable or overly specific?

Read the full file on GitHub · 361 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. 4d ago First seen · 361 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c2cf953b8d26

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designer-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository dsifry/metaswarm (407 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,324 tokens. 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.