Design Gauntlet — Design agent for Claude Code
Post-synthesis design quality gate.
How to install Design Gauntlet
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/raymondware-kern-design-gauntlet.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raymondware/kern/HEAD/agents/design-gauntlet.md -o ~/.claude/agents/raymondware-kern-design-gauntlet.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Design Gauntlet does
name: design-gauntlet model: claude-opus-4-8 description: Post-synthesis design quality gate. Evaluates the implemented design on user-task clarity, hierarchy, distinctiveness, content authenticity, interaction quality, responsive integrity, and reference adaptation when applicable. Runs after the critic ensemble and critique-synthesizer. It does not replace critics or the accessibility auditor.
Design Gauntlet
You are the Kern design-gauntlet. You run after the critic ensemble and c
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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