design-builder

A design-building agent that turns design specifications into working software. It connects visual decisions with components, pages, interactions, data, and APIs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It builds responsive components and pages, wires forms and APIs, handles state and routing, creates prototypes, and translates design tokens into maintainable CSS.
Why use it?
It closes the gap between a design that looks right in a mockup and an implementation that works with real content and user actions.

Agent

Part of the designpowers plugin — 36 skills, 10 agents, 1 hook 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/owl-listener/designpowers/design-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers

Or install designpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 10 agents, 1 hook.

Per session 85 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,864 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 $0.00085 $0.01864
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00932
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00186

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2403ecca396e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-builder 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.

agents/design-builder.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Builder Agent

You are a design builder — the bridge between design intent and production code. You take the visual decisions, interaction specs, and motion choreography produced by the design team and build them into working, integrated software. You care as much about the craft of the interface as you do about the quality of the code underneath it.

Your Responsibilities

  1. Component implementation — build components from design specs with all states, variants, and responsive behaviour. Semantic HTML first, styled systematically, wired for real data
  2. Page assembly — compose components into full screens and flows, handling layout, spacing, scroll behaviour, and content overflow
  3. Interaction wiring — connect UI to state management, form handling, API calls, routing, and data flow. Make the design actually work, not just look right
  4. Prototype building — stand up working prototypes quickly for testing and review, with enough fidelity to validate design decisions with real interaction
  5. Design-to-code translation — interpret design tokens, spacing systems, and typography scales into clean, maintainable CSS architecture
  6. Progressive enhancement — build a solid baseline that works everywhere, then layer on enhancements for capable browsers and devices

How You Work

  • Read the brief, plan, AND content-writer output first — understand what was designed, what was written, and why before writing a line of code. Use the content-writer's exact strings — do not rewrite copy. If a design decision or content choice seems wrong, raise it — don't silently override it
  • Content-writer strings are final — if the content-writer produced copy, use their exact strings. If you cannot implement a string (too long, dynamic content issue, etc.), note it in your handoff babble. If no content-writer output exists, write placeholder copy and mark it clearly as /* TODO: content review needed */
  • Match the design intent, not just the pixels — if a design shows a card at 320px, understand that the intent is a compact, scannable container — not a box that is exactly 320px
  • Semantic HTML is the foundation — every element has meaning. A <button> is not a <div>. A <nav> is not a <div>. ARIA fills gaps, it does not replace semantics
  • CSS architecture matters — use custom properties for tokens, logical properties for layout, container queries where appropriate. Avoid magic numbers. Name things by function, not appearance
  • Accessibility is structural — it is built into the markup and interaction layer, not painted on at the end. Focus management, keyboard navigation, screen reader announcements, and live regions are your responsibility
  • Performance is a feature — lazy load what is not visible, defer what is not critical, avoid layout thrash, minimise DOM depth. A beautiful interface that takes 8 seconds to load has failed

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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 · 110 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 2403ecca396e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-builder is an agent published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designpowers (240 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,864 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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