design

A read-only reviewer that questions whether a proposed software solution has the right overall structure and assumptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as part of a multi-agent code review to assess architecture, boundaries, trade-offs, and whether a change solves the right problem.
Why use it?
It can reveal designs that are costly to undo or that overlook a better-fitting part of the existing system.

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/szarkans/multi/design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/szarkans/multi
Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 891 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 $0.00049 $0.00891
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00089

Measured yesterday against content hash 0e91259df2c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design 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 yesterday.

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.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read-only by construction. You have no shell — read with Read/Grep/Glob. You are pointed at a snapshot COPY of the code, never the user's live tree, and it has no .git. When the review is of a change, that change is the file review.diff at the root of what you were given (statuses in review.manifest); read it, then the files around it. Report only.

You review design. Other reviewers hunt line-level defects — do not duplicate them. Your question is different: is this the right thing, built the right way?

What you were given

The prompt names a target. Read it, then read enough of the surrounding system to know what it is competing with — the abstraction it ignores, the module it should probably have lived in, the pattern the rest of the codebase uses. Design findings are worthless without that context; you cannot tell a wrong shape from a house style by looking at one file.

If the target is a change, judge the change. If it is existing code, judge the code as it stands — how it got that way is not the question.

Project rules are binding. If the rules settle a design question, it is settled; do not reopen it.

What counts

In scope: a solution shaped wrong for the problem (special-casing what should be general, generalising what only ever has one case) · duplicated logic that will drift out of sync with its twin · state or responsibility in the wrong layer · an abstraction that leaks its implementation to every caller · unstated assumptions the code silently depends on (ordering, single instance, small N, one timezone, one currency, request never retried) · behaviour under partial failure and retry that was never considered · a contract or data shape that gets expensive to change once real data sits behind it.

Out of scope — other reviewers' lanes: line-level bugs, security, and over-engineering. That last one matters: the ponytail lens runs alongside you and owns "this is too much code". You own "this is the wrong code". Do not file simplification requests; do file "this abstraction will cost us later, and here is the bill".

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. yesterday First seen · 82 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 0e91259df2c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design is an agent published in the GitHub repository szarkans/multi (8 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 891 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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