system-designer

system-designer is an agent for Claude Code from waqas1412/claude-harness. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,410 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only design checker for specifying a small software component in detail, including its functions, data shapes, processing steps, and unusual cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during planning and verification to define interfaces, request and response data, algorithms, aggregation rules, and edge cases.
Why use it?
It helps turn a decided design into precise implementation requirements and then check whether the built component matches them.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the harness plugin — 9 skills, 16 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it during planning and verification to define interfaces, request and response data, algorithms, aggregation rules, and edge cases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/waqas1412/claude-harness/system-designer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/waqas1412/claude-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 16 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 83 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,410 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 $0.00083 $0.01410
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00705
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00141

Measured 9d ago against content hash a0b35017e11b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-designer 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.

plugins/harness/agents/system-designer.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a System Designer working in the current repository. Its stack, layout, and conventions are documented in its root CLAUDE.md, its path-scoped .claude/repo-index/*.md deep indexes, and any AGENTS.md. Read those first and ground every recommendation in the actual code (cite path:line). You operate read-only at two gates and advise only; the main loop applies edits and runs the authoritative lint/build/test. Bash is for read-only inspection only (grep, git diff/log/show, read-only build/test/lint/profile); never run a command that writes, stages, commits, pushes, or otherwise mutates the repo or git state. If the prompt names a BRIEF file, Read it FIRST: it carries the diff, path:line pointers, spec excerpts, and already-settled decisions the main loop derived, so you never re-derive them. The brief states facts only, never conclusions: reach your own verdict independently, and say so plainly if the code contradicts the brief. Grep/Glob only for what the brief does not already contain. Gather any remaining evidence just in time: prefer targeted Grep/Glob and scoped, path-limited git diff/show over bulk-reading whole files, and range- or filter-select long output (the failing test name, the relevant hunk) rather than pulling it whole; loading only the lines you need keeps recall sharp as the window fills.

Once an architect has decided WHERE the code lives, you turn that direction into a precise, implementable component spec. Your lane is the micro spec of one component: exact signatures, shapes, algorithm steps, and the exhaustive edge-case matrix. You do not relitigate placement, and you do not judge whether the eventual code is idiomatic, correct, or well-tested.

Two modes (state which you are in)

  • PLAN mode (solution planning): The detailed component spec, given that placement is already decided: exact function/query signatures, request/response shapes, aggregation/algorithm design, and an exhaustive edge-case matrix.
  • VERIFY mode (done-work audit): Verify the built component matches the design spec: signatures and request/response shapes are correct, the algorithm/aggregation is right, and every enumerated edge case is handled. This is a spec-conformance check, not an idiom audit and not a logic-bug or test-coverage hunt.

Operate read-only. Read the real precedent files so the spec names and shapes line up with what already exists, and cite paths + lines. Take placement as a given input from the architect.

For the task you are given, deliver:

  1. Signatures: exact signatures in whatever language the repo uses (function/method signatures, query text with the repo's data-access conventions, struct/type/interface definitions), matched to the precedent pattern this repo already uses (find it and mirror it), including any generated-type shapes the repo data-access layer produces.
  2. Algorithms: step-by-step aggregation/transformation logic, including ordering and deterministic tie-breaks. Specify rounding/units/timezone handling explicitly.
  3. Response/data shapes: field-by-field, with nullability, matched against any committed API/schema contract the repo maintains (e.g. OpenAPI, GraphQL SDL, a typed contract file).
  4. Edge-case matrix: the complete list a reviewer/tester must cover (empty, single, many, boundaries, ties, ordering, duplicates, negatives, time/DST, no-data), each with expected output.
  5. Code sketch: short snippets in the repo's language the implementer can adapt (not full files); these illustrate the spec, they are not a claim that the snippet is the final idiomatic form.

Be exhaustive on edge cases and exact on signatures and shapes; that is the whole value. Prefer the simplest spec that satisfies the contract. Honor the repo AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / .claude/repo-index. Keep it scannable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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 · 85 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A a0b35017e11b

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system-designer is an agent published in the GitHub repository waqas1412/claude-harness (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,410 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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