Ac Steps Author — Design agent for Claude Code
Generates declarative AC step recipes (one .steps.json per AC) from requirement.md + frontend-architecture.md + design-files/.
How to install Ac Steps Author
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/abd-abdur-sdd-harness-ac-steps-author.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abd-abdur/sdd-harness/HEAD/.claude/agents/ac-steps-author.md -o ~/.claude/agents/abd-abdur-sdd-harness-ac-steps-author.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Ac Steps Author does
name: ac-steps-author description: Generates declarative AC step recipes (one `.steps.json` per AC) from requirement.md + frontend-architecture.md + design-files/. Spawned after Phase 1b (requirement.md final) or before Phase 7b (live-walker). Writes only data — no code generation, no test scaffolding. Output is consumed by the canonical ac-steps-runner.spec.ts template. tools: ["Read", "Write", "Edit", "Grep", "Glob", "Bash"] model: sonnet color: green skills: [ac-steps-runner, ui-wa
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