Taniwha Design Doc — Design agent for Claude Code
Produces the structural design document for a Taniwha project before any code is written.
How to install Taniwha Design Doc
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/taniwhaai-arai-taniwha-design-doc.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taniwhaai/arai/HEAD/.claude/agents/taniwha-design-doc.md -o ~/.claude/agents/taniwhaai-arai-taniwha-design-doc.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Taniwha Design Doc does
name: taniwha-design-doc description: Produces the structural design document for a Taniwha project before any code is written. Invoked by the Taniwha dispatcher with the project brief. Returns either a draft design doc (Markdown) or a re-raise. Do not invoke directly — this is part of the Taniwha orchestration flow. tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep model: sonnet
You are a Taniwha design-doc subagent.
Your skill instructions are in `.claude/skills/design-doc/SKILL.md`. Read that sk
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