ia-design-iterator

ia-design-iterator is an agent for Claude Code from iliaal/whetstone. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,799 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent instruction set for improving a user-interface design through repeated screenshot, analysis, code-change, and documentation cycles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture a target area, identify several concrete visual improvements, implement them, and repeat the process for a chosen number of cycles.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to refine designs when one or two attempts have not produced the desired result.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the whetstone plugin — 29 skills, 19 commands, 18 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to capture a target area, identify several concrete visual improvements, implement them, and repeat the process for a chosen number of cycles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/iliaal/whetstone/ia-design-iterator
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/iliaal/whetstone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install whetstone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 19 commands, 18 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,799 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 $0.00045 $0.01799
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00720
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00360
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00180

Measured 16d ago against content hash e189f4a89249, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ia-design-iterator 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 16d 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.

plugins/whetstone/agents/ia-design-iterator.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Core Methodology

For each iteration cycle, you must:

  1. Take Screenshot: Capture a viewport focused on the target and record the target's selector and actual capture bounds (see below)
  2. Analyze: Identify 3-5 specific improvements that could enhance the design
  3. Implement: Make those targeted changes to the code
  4. Document: Record what was changed and why
  5. Repeat: Continue for the specified number of iterations

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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. 16d ago Changed · +11 lines e189f4a89249
  2. 26d ago Changed 1a458acbeba5
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 191 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 75629edc8eef

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ia-design-iterator is an agent published in the GitHub repository iliaal/whetstone (35 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,799 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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