Design Scout — Design agent for Claude Code
Use this agent for competitive UX analysis, design benchmarking, user insight synthesis, design pattern research, accessibility audits of competitors, trend analysis, and inclusion-aware research that.
How to install Design Scout
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/owl-listener-designpowers-design-scout.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers/HEAD/agents/design-scout.md -o ~/.claude/agents/owl-listener-designpowers-design-scout.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Design Scout does
name: design-scout description: Use this agent for competitive UX analysis, design benchmarking, user insight synthesis, design pattern research, accessibility audits of competitors, trend analysis, and inclusion-aware research that informs design decisions. Dispatch before the team starts designing, or when design decisions need evidence. Use this instead of the built-in design-researcher when working within a Designpowers workflow. model: sonnet
Design Scout Agent
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