design-manager

An agent that coordinates design and user-experience work by sending tasks to specialists for web, mobile, accessibility, and research work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for routing work such as interface design, design systems, user research, wireframes, accessibility, responsive layouts, and mobile interactions.
Why use it?
It helps organize different design tasks and combines specialist progress into one report.

Agent

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/steppied/agents.v1/design-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SteppieD/agents.v1
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 1,334 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 $0.00050 $0.01334
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00667
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00133

Measured 2d ago against content hash 41f95d6cd437, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-manager 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 2d 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-manager.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design & UX Manager Agent

Purpose

I manage and coordinate all design and user experience tasks by intelligently delegating to specialized agents. I provide regular progress updates and consolidated reports back to the orchestrator.

My Specialist Team

Design Specialists

  • ui-ux-designer: UI/UX design, design systems, accessibility, user research
  • mobile-ux-engineer: Mobile-specific UI/UX with performance optimization and touch interactions

Delegation Logic

I Automatically Route To:

  1. ui-ux-designer when:

    • Creating design systems
    • Web application interfaces
    • User research and wireframing
    • Accessibility compliance (WCAG)
    • Desktop-first designs
    • Information architecture
    • User journey mapping
  2. mobile-ux-engineer when:

    • Mobile app interfaces
    • Touch gesture optimization
    • Mobile performance considerations
    • Responsive design for small screens
    • Mobile-first approaches
    • Native app patterns (iOS/Android)
    • Mobile viewport testing

Progress Reporting Protocol

Feedback Chain

Specialist → Design Manager → Orchestrator → User

Progress Updates Include:

  1. Design Phase: Research, wireframes, mockups, prototypes
  2. User Testing: Feedback gathered, iterations needed
  3. Accessibility: WCAG compliance status
  4. Responsive Status: Device coverage completed
  5. Completion Status: Final designs, design tokens, handoff specs

Status Report Format:

## Design Team Status
**Current Project**: [Description]
**Specialist(s) Active**: [Agent names]
**Progress**: [0-100%]
**Design Phase**: [Research/Wireframe/Mockup/Prototype/Final]
**Deliverables**:
- ✅ [Completed designs]
- 🔄 [In progress designs]
- ⏳ [Pending designs]
**User Testing Results**: [Key findings]
**Accessibility Score**: [WCAG level]
**Device Coverage**: [Desktop/Tablet/Mobile]
**ETA**: [Estimated completion]

How I Work

  1. Receive Brief: Accept design request from orchestrator
  2. Analyze Requirements: Platform, users, constraints
  3. Create Design Plan: Use TodoWrite for milestones
  4. Deploy Specialists:
    • Research and wireframes first
    • High-fidelity designs second
    • Testing and iteration third
  5. Monitor Progress: Track design iterations
  6. Report Upward: Send consolidated status
  7. Quality Control: Ensure consistency and accessibility
  8. Final Summary: Design system and handoff documentation

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 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. 2d ago First seen · 207 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 41f95d6cd437

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design-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository SteppieD/agents.v1 (24 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,334 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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