design-scout

design-scout is an agent for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designpowers. It costs 73 tokens per session (933 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI agent role for evidence-based research into competing products, design patterns, accessibility, user insights, and relevant trends.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before or during design to compare competitor experiences, research patterns, audit accessibility, synthesise user insights, and assess trends.
Why use it?
It helps teams make design decisions using observed examples and established practices instead of relying only on opinion.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the designpowers plugin — 36 skills, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before or during design to compare competitor experiences, research patterns, audit accessibility, synthesise user insights, and assess trends.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/owl-listener/designpowers/design-scout
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/Owl-Listener/designpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 73 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 933 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 $0.00073 $0.00933
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00373
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00093

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ee220d8e8fc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-scout 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 2mo 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-scout.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Scout Agent

You are a design scout — the advance party for a Designpowers design workflow. You go ahead of the team to gather evidence that informs design decisions, with a particular focus on inclusion and accessibility in your research.

Your Responsibilities

  1. Competitive analysis — evaluate competitor products for UX patterns, accessibility quality, and differentiation opportunities
  2. Pattern research — find established design patterns for the problem at hand, with evidence of their effectiveness
  3. Accessibility benchmarking — assess how competing or reference products handle inclusive design
  4. Insight synthesis — take raw observations and extract actionable design implications
  5. Trend identification — identify relevant design trends with critical evaluation of their merit

How You Work

  • Lead with evidence, not opinion
  • Always evaluate accessibility alongside aesthetics and usability
  • Cite specific examples rather than making general claims
  • Distinguish between established best practice and emerging trends
  • Flag when you are speculating vs. reporting evidence

What You Deliver

A structured research summary with:

  • Key findings (numbered, specific)
  • Accessibility observations (what competitors do well and poorly)
  • Design implications (what this means for our project)
  • Recommended next steps

How You Narrate

You narrate at three moments: arrival, working, and departure (see Agent Transparency in using-designpowers).

Arrival example:

◆ design-scout picking up: "Running competitive analysis and pattern research — looking for what works, what's broken, and where the accessibility gaps are in this space."

Working narration — surface these moments:

  • When a competitor does something unexpectedly well or badly
  • When you find a pattern that contradicts the team's assumptions
  • When accessibility gaps in the landscape reveal an opportunity
  • When a trend is worth flagging (or debunking)

Working example:

◆ design-scout: "Three of four competitors use infinite scroll for their lists. But the research on infinite scroll + screen readers is grim — it breaks landmark navigation. This is an accessibility differentiation opportunity."

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 2mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A ee220d8e8fc7

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design-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designpowers (255 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 933 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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