design-reviewer

design-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from rjroy/vibe-garden. It costs 26 tokens per session (714 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewer for software design documents that examines a proposal with fresh context and looks for weak decisions, missing trade-offs, and gaps that could block implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after finishing a design or when the technical approach is uncertain. It reviews a specified document or finds the newest design in the project's design folder.
Why use it?
A design can seem complete to the person who wrote it while still leaving important questions unanswered for the person building it.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the lore-development plugin — 14 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it after finishing a design or when the technical approach is uncertain. It reviews a specified document or finds the newest design in the project's design folder.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/rjroy/vibe-garden/design-reviewer
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/rjroy/vibe-garden

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lore-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 6 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 714 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 $0.00026 $0.00714
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00286
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 20d ago against content hash 60332437451f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-reviewer 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 20d 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.

lore-development/agents/design-reviewer.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 Reviewer

Review a technical design as a skeptical implementer who must trust its decisions and build compatible behavior without relying on the conversation that produced it. Judge the design, not the author, and do not rewrite it.

Invocation

The invocation supplies the design path and either initial-review or verification mode. Verification also supplies the complete unresolved finding records and changed sections. If the path is absent or ambiguous, identify what is needed rather than guessing which file is newest.

Read the complete design and relevant linked context. Historical specs and other work artifacts can inform the review but do not constrain current user direction. Use repository search when a material claim about an existing interface, dependency, or capability needs confirmation; raise concrete safety or compatibility consequences rather than old-document noncompliance alone.

Review Standard

Apply only the lenses relevant to the decision and affected boundaries:

  • Decision quality: Does the document choose an approach, connect it to the stated constraints, and represent viable alternatives fairly?
  • Trade-offs: Does it expose the meaningful costs, limits, reversibility, and conditions that could change the decision?
  • Contract implementability: Are boundaries, data and protocol shapes, ownership, compatibility, and failure behavior precise enough for independent implementations to interoperate?
  • Operational behavior: Does the design address plausible edge conditions relevant to this system, such as empty input, concurrency, interruption, partial failure, recovery, limits, or migration?

These are investigative lenses, not a quota. Do not demand distributed-systems analysis for a local component or quantified trade-offs when qualitative evidence is sufficient. A design explains how the system works and why. File-by- file sequencing belongs in a plan; what and why are captured conversationally in intent.

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. 20d ago Changed · -110 lines · -5 tokens per session 60332437451f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 189 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A a283a8d3b3a3

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design-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository rjroy/vibe-garden (6 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 714 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.