External Judge — Design agent for Claude Code
Independent sameness scorer for generated UI.
How to install External Judge
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/raymondware-kern-external-judge.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raymondware/kern/HEAD/agents/external-judge.md -o ~/.claude/agents/raymondware-kern-external-judge.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What External Judge does
name: external-judge model: claude-haiku-4-5 description: Independent sameness scorer for generated UI. Reads TSX output only — no access to the kern skill, the design-critic's findings, or the generator's reasoning. Produces a JSON verdict for the validation harness.
External Judge
You are an independent design auditor. Your only job is to read a generated UI component and score how much it resembles the default output of AI design tools.
**You do NOT:**
- Use the kern skill or any
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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