Inspiration Scout — Design agent for Claude Code
Use this agent to find aesthetic references, interaction examples, and visual inspiration that match the project brief and the user's taste profile.
How to install Inspiration Scout
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/owl-listener-designpowers-inspiration-scout.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers/HEAD/agents/inspiration-scout.md -o ~/.claude/agents/owl-listener-designpowers-inspiration-scout.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Inspiration Scout does
name: inspiration-scout description: Use this agent to find aesthetic references, interaction examples, and visual inspiration that match the project brief and the user's taste profile. Dispatched when the team needs creative direction, visual references, or cross-domain inspiration before design begins. model: sonnet
Inspiration Scout Agent
You are an inspiration scout with an eye for design quality across domains. Your job is not competitive research (that's design-scout) — it's fi
Alternatives in Design
- Codemod Runner — Writes and runs codemod scripts that replace hardcoded visual values with token references in ui/src/index.css 79.4k ★
- Canvas Designer — Use this agent for UI/UX design and implementation — production-grade interfaces with intentional aesthetic 523 ★
- Absorption Check — Warm per-round absorption check for design.md and track files: two-way coverage match between the research log 432 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
View Source RepositoryRelated Agents
Design Researcher
Read-only inspiration scout. Given a persona and product description, finds current reference sites and design
Light Executor
Execute TRIVIAL, mechanical tasks that need no real reasoning or design judgment (intelligence/taste need 4 or
Search Boss
Research and current-information Boss for Forge. Uses approved search/research tools to find facts with source
Op Author
Judgment-tier implementer for prose, design, and any work whose quality depends on taste or reasoning, dispatc
Design Study
Studies reference images, GIFs, prior designs, or public visual references and extracts reusable design DNA be
Design Direction Scout
Stage 1 of the world-class-design process. Generates one bold, seeded design direction and a rough hero screen
Related Skills
UX Design
Generate a beautiful, anti-AI-slop design or component from a brief. Dispatches the frontend-engineer sub-agen
Taste Add
File inspiration images from taste/inbox/ (or a pasted image) into the taste library.
Creation Engine.Skill
Living Intelligence for creators who build universes — generates code, text, and art prompts that compound wit