Bureau – BUREAU – an agent skill that designs like a studio

Job: BUREAUv7.10.0, MITLine guide of 2026-10-27Agent skill for Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Hermes

BUREAU gives a coding model the workflow of a design bureau: concept, art direction, type, motion, accessibility, and a review circuit. Every page rides the same line, and the Tribunal can send it back.

Fails: back for changes

G0 · 5Intake G1 · 14Concept G2 · 15Direction Type and colourG3 · 12 G4 · 12Composition MotionG5 · 12 G6 · 10Engineering G7 · 9Access TruthG8 · 8 Tribunalfresh context LaunchG9 · 3

G0Intake, weight 5

G1Concept, weight 14

G2Direction, weight 15

G3Type and colour, weight 12

G4Composition, weight 12

G5Motion, weight 12

G6Engineering, weight 10

G7Access, weight 9

G8Truth, weight 8

TTribunal, in a fresh context; a fail goes back for changes

G9Launch, weight 3

Concept line, G0–G2

Craft line, G3–G7

Truth line, G8–G9

Tribunal: pass or back

pattern rules in the detector32

project checks beside them21

gates before a Tribunal10

hosts, one skill folder4

Proof

The detector marks a generic generated page in red pencil, with the same rules the command line runs. Flip to the reviewed version, or proof this page.

18 marks, 3 of them P0: the specimen fails. Listed from the detector's output at build time.

Asked for a page with no direction, a model returns the centre of everything it has seen. That is not a prompt problem; it is a missing idea, a missing point of view and a missing review.

Concept before pixels.Three directions that truly differ, each a blend of three designers on three axes, built from a survey of five verified references. No code before an idea, an emotional target and a world.

Craft with limits you can check.Type, colour, composition and motion each have a reference and a budget; scripts measure what can be measured, from contrast and overflow to fingerprint divergence.

A review that can refuse.Ten gates in order, evidence on every line, a ten-minute jury and a Tribunal in a fresh context. Invented proof, fake sends and hidden content fail whatever the score.

Each gate scores 0 to 5 against its weight; any gate under 3.5, any P0 or any missing evidence fails the release. Changing a source file makes every later gate stale.

Judge before you measure.The design review is written before anyone reads the detector's output.

The builder is the weakest reviewer.The Tribunal reads the work in a fresh context, or the run is declared degraded and cannot reach Award Track.

Ten minutes for the jury.Ten to fifteen independent reviewers vote on every gate and every Law of UX; the best round inside the time box stands.

Type /bureau and a command, or ask in plain language; the router picks the command and loads only the references it needs.

Each was built with the skill from a blend of three designers and given a phone composition of its own. Open the ShowCase ↗

Cerro Lumen

Gerstner × Moholy-Nagy × Eames. Scroll from the dome to the galaxy, one power of ten at a time.

Maison Orvé

Ruder × Greiman × Munari. Compose top, heart and base; watch them move through water.

Maré

Sutnar × Wyman × Kare. Contours radiate from the name; raise the wind and the sea builds.

Glifo

A. Albers × Scher × Cooper. Pull five axes by hand, weave a field of letters, open one in depth.

Preview with a dry run, restart the agent, then call /bureau. Node 20 or later; Playwright and Figma are optional and degrade honestly.

The installer copies the skill folder into the host's skills directory and marks it, so uninstalling removes only what it placed.

Windows: installers/install.ps1. Installation guide.

Every host at once: bash installers/install.sh --agent all --scope user --dry-run

Nine pages per locale, identical in structure: overview, quickstart, architecture, workflow, circuit, commands, anti-slop, visual language, install.