design-agent

design-agent is a command for Claude Code from latestaiagents/agent-skills. It costs 9 tokens per session (1,146 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for planning how several AI agents—separate assistants with different roles—should work together on a problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design supervisor, peer-to-peer, step-by-step, or adaptive agent systems for support, coding, research, content, or data workflows.
Why use it?
It helps you choose a suitable structure instead of connecting agents without a clear plan. It considers the problem, team size, and coordination method.

Command for Claude Code

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

Part of the latestaiagents plugin — 47 skills, 10 commands, 7 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to design supervisor, peer-to-peer, step-by-step, or adaptive agent systems for support, coding, research, content, or data workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/latestaiagents/agent-skills/design-agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/latestaiagents/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install latestaiagents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 10 commands, 7 plugins.

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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,146 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 $0.00009 $0.01146
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00573
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00115

Measured 7d ago against content hash 488dab5543b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-agent 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 7d 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.

commands/design-agent.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/design-agent

Design a multi-agent system architecture with proven patterns.

Tell Me About Your System

To recommend the right architecture, I need to know:

  1. What problem are you solving?

    • Customer support automation
    • Code generation pipeline
    • Research and analysis
    • Content creation workflow
    • Data processing pipeline
  2. How many agents do you need?

    • 2-3 agents (simple delegation)
    • 4-7 agents (specialized team)
    • 8+ agents (complex swarm)
  3. How should they coordinate?

    • One agent controls others (Supervisor)
    • Agents talk to each other (Mesh)
    • Strict pipeline (Sequential)
    • Dynamic based on task (Adaptive)

Architecture Patterns

Pattern 1: Supervisor (Hub-and-Spoke)

Best for: Clear hierarchy, centralized control, audit requirements

         ┌─────────────┐
         │  Supervisor │  ← Makes decisions, delegates
         └──────┬──────┘
        ┌───────┼───────┐
        ▼       ▼       ▼
    ┌───────┐┌───────┐┌───────┐
    │Agent A││Agent B││Agent C│  ← Specialized workers
    └───────┘└───────┘└───────┘

Use when:

  • You need clear accountability
  • Tasks can be cleanly separated
  • You want predictable behavior

Pattern 2: Mesh (Peer-to-Peer)

Best for: Complex tasks, emergent behavior, resilience

    ┌───────┐     ┌───────┐
    │Agent A│◄───►│Agent B│
    └───┬───┘     └───┬───┘
        │     ╲   ╱   │
        │      ╲ ╱    │
        ▼       ╳     ▼
    ┌───────┐  ╱ ╲┌───────┐
    │Agent C│◄───►│Agent D│
    └───────┘     └───────┘

Use when:

  • Tasks require collaboration
  • Agents have overlapping knowledge
  • System needs fault tolerance

Pattern 3: Pipeline (Sequential)

Best for: Ordered workflows, data transformation, quality gates

    Input → [Agent A] → [Agent B] → [Agent C] → Output
              │            │            │
              ▼            ▼            ▼
           Validate     Process      Format

Use when:

  • Tasks have natural order
  • Each stage transforms data
  • You need checkpoints

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 7d ago First seen · 167 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 488dab5543b2

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design-agent is a command published in the GitHub repository latestaiagents/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 1,146 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.