design-harness Agent Skill

Skill by ara.so — Design Skills collection.

An agent skill that helps you turn scattered papers, blog posts, and half-formed ideas into a traceable system design. Every design decision links back through idea cards to the sources that earned it. Markdown keeps the record; a visual canvas makes it readable.

What design-harness Does

Three card types, one workflow:

1. Sources (agent creates) — papers, repos, blog posts filed with quality grades
2. Ideas (human creates) — your judgments, linked to evidence, clustered by the agent
3. Output (agent assembles) — the deliverable synthesized from surviving ideas

Core principles:

• Only humans create idea cards; agents file sources and link evidence
• Everything is append-only; rejected ideas are archived, never deleted
• Every output element must trace back to sources through ideas
• Markdown is truth; the canvas is a projection rebuilt from markdown