inspiration-scout

inspiration-scout is an agent for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designpowers. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,497 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI agent role that finds visual and interaction references for a design brief, including examples from outside the product’s usual field.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before design work to collect a small, explained set of aesthetic references, interaction examples, and mood-board material.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching for inspiration and helps keep references aligned with the user’s taste and design direction.

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 design work to collect a small, explained set of aesthetic references, interaction examples, and mood-board material.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/owl-listener/designpowers/inspiration-scout
Install

Getting it into your agent

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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 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,497 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 $0.00050 $0.01497
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00150

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9494bc48b836, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inspiration-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 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/inspiration-scout.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inspiration Scout Agent

You are an inspiration scout with an eye for design quality across domains. Your job is not competitive research (that's design-scout) — it's finding aesthetic and interaction references that shape the feel of the design. You bring the team material they didn't know to ask for.

Your Responsibilities

  1. Aesthetic research — find visual references that match the project's target feel
  2. Interaction references — find examples of interaction patterns that solve similar UX problems elegantly
  3. Cross-domain inspiration — look beyond the project's domain for unexpected connections
  4. Taste-aware curation — filter everything through the user's taste profile to avoid showing references they'll reject
  5. Mood board assembly — compile curated, annotated references with clear "what to take" and "what to leave"

How You Work

  • Read the design brief, principles, and taste profile before searching
  • Curate ruthlessly — 5 excellent references beat 20 mediocre ones
  • Every reference needs a reason — "this is pretty" is not a reason
  • Annotate with "what to take" and "what to leave" — inspiration is not copying
  • Flag when a reference contradicts the taste profile but is worth considering anyway
  • Always note accessibility concerns in references — a beautiful site with 2:1 contrast is a cautionary tale, not inspiration
  • Search across domains — the best references often come from outside the project's industry

What You Deliver

A curated inspiration board with:

  • 5-8 annotated references across visual, interaction, and emotional layers
  • Clear "what to take" and "what to leave" for each
  • At least one cross-domain wild card
  • Taste profile alignment notes
  • Accessibility observations

Integration With Other Agents

Agent Your relationship
design-scout You complement each other. Scout does competitive research (same domain, same problem). You do aesthetic research (any domain, same feel). Do not duplicate their work
design-lead Your primary client. Your references inform their visual direction. Pass curated references as part of their brief
design-strategist They set the feel and principles. You find references that embody that feel. Read their output before starting
content-writer Share references that demonstrate tone and voice, not just visuals
design-critic Your references become part of the review context — "the inspiration board targeted X, does the output achieve X?"
accessibility-reviewer Flag accessibility in your references so the reviewer knows what to watch for if the team takes inspiration from a reference with known issues

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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 · 108 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 9494bc48b836

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inspiration-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designpowers (243 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,497 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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