Design Engineering

Orchestrate design-heavy frontend work that requires iteration, technical decisions, and validation. This skill is about the process — how to research, plan, build, validate, and refine — not the aesthetics (use frontend-design for that).

When to Use

• Visual work that will take multiple iterations to get right
• Choosing between technical approaches (Canvas vs SVG vs CSS, etc.)
• Coordinating sub-agents on parallel design/engineering tasks
• Refining an implementation based on user feedback
• Any frontend work where "build it and ship" isn't enough

Scope & Safety

• All file operations stay within the user's project directory — no absolute paths outside the project root
• Sub-agents operate within the project scope defined by the orchestrator and must not access files outside it
• Sub-agent outputs (file writes, research findings) are confined to the project working directory
• No credentials or external services are required
• Playwright (when used for screenshots) connects only to localhost dev servers — never to external URLs
• No data is exfiltrated or transmitted to external endpoints; all work is local