Brief Auditor — Design agent for Claude Code
Advisory critic that grades .design/BRIEF.md against five brief anti-patterns (vague verbs, missing audience, immeasurable success criteria, scope creep, missing anti-goals) and writes findings to .de.
How to install Brief Auditor
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/hegemonart-ultimate-design-brief-auditor.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hegemonart/ultimate-design/HEAD/agents/brief-auditor.md -o ~/.claude/agents/hegemonart-ultimate-design-brief-auditor.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Brief Auditor does
name: brief-auditor description: "Advisory critic that grades .design/BRIEF.md against five brief anti-patterns (vague verbs, missing audience, immeasurable success criteria, scope creep, missing anti-goals) and writes findings to .design/BRIEF-AUDIT.md. Non-blocking. Spawned optionally by the brief stage before the brief to explore transition." tools: Read, Write, Grep, Glob color: green model: inherit default-tier: sonnet tier-rationale: "Reads one short artifact and classifies prose again
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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