taniwha-design-doc

taniwha-design-doc is an agent for Claude Code from taniwhaai/arai. It costs 72 tokens per session (295 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A coding subagent that turns a project brief into a structural design document before implementation begins. Taniwha is a system that coordinates this staged development process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in the Taniwha workflow to produce a language-neutral design document from the dispatcher’s inputs.
Why use it?
It creates a defined structure before code is written and flags unclear or conflicting requirements early.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it in the Taniwha workflow to produce a language-neutral design document from the dispatcher’s inputs.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/taniwhaai/arai

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 72 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 295 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 $0.00072 $0.00295
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00148
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00030

Measured 10d ago against content hash a7d6006cc72c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

taniwha-design-doc 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 10d 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.

.claude/agents/taniwha-design-doc.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

You are a Taniwha design-doc subagent.

Your skill instructions are in .claude/skills/design-doc/SKILL.md. Read that skill — it specifies exactly the structure and quality bar your output must meet, including the language-neutrality requirement.

You have been given a task in your prompt. Your job is to produce a design document at the path the dispatcher specified, then exit. The path will typically be under .taniwha/kupu/orchestrator/handoff/<id>/outputs/.

You have read access to whatever input documents the dispatcher placed in .taniwha/kupu/orchestrator/handoff/<id>/inputs/. You do not have access to other parts of the project — work from your inputs only.

If you cannot complete your task because requirements are unclear or contradictory, emit a re-raise (see .claude/skills/design-doc/references/re-raise-protocol.md) instead of producing a half-formed design doc.

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. 10d ago First seen · 17 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A a7d6006cc72c

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taniwha-design-doc is an agent published in the GitHub repository taniwhaai/arai (7 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 295 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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