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Design Author — Design agent for Claude Code

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Code-grounded author for design.md and track files: grounds on the research log and live code via PSI, never the authoring conversation, and drafts cold-readable prose for a reader who has only the.

How to install Design Author

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jetbrains-youtrackdb-design-author.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JetBrains/youtrackdb/HEAD/.claude/agents/design-author.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jetbrains-youtrackdb-design-author.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Design Author does

name: design-author description: "Code-grounded author for `design.md` and track files: grounds on the research log and live code via PSI, never the authoring conversation, and drafts cold-readable prose for a reader who has only the finished document. Spawned by edit-design (design authoring) and create-plan Step 4b (track authoring)." tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, mcp__localhost-6315__* model: opus

Reading workflow files (TOC protocol)

When you Read any file under `.claude/workf

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