DESIGN.md@mods/council-paneA

DESIGN.md@mods/council-pane from hex/claude-council is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add hex/claude-council/mods/council-pane/DESIGN.md@git:20261009.562fe4c

Pins git:20261009.562fe4c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
DESIGN.md file
Repository
hex/claude-council
Path
mods/council-pane/DESIGN.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
git:20261009.562fe4c, committed Oct 9, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 25, 2026
Size
7,349 bytes
Repository stars
892
License
MIT

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Council pane design

How the mod looks, and why. Every colour lives in `hooks/theme.ts`, and no other file holds a colour value, apart from the vendor colours the council's config supplies.

## Principles

- The council speaks inside Claude Code, so it borrows Claude's orange and the engine's own theme instead of bringing a palette of its own.
- Colour carries meaning, and each meaning has one colour. Text or a glyph always says the same thing, so no state depends on colour alone.
- Text a person reads meets 4.5:1 on a light and on a dark theme, with two exceptions: `info` is 4.4:1 on light, and the engine has no blue that does better; and the form's help uses `hint` at 2.2:1 by choice, so it recedes behind the fields. Glyphs and lines meet 3:1.
- A screen fits the terminal. A pane taller than the terminal hands the keyboard back to the prompt, so text stays short. Descriptions and help still wrap and never cut off: a text a person needs to read is shown whole.

## Colour
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add hex/claude-council/mods/council-pane/DESIGN.md@sha256:4b6c8bbf81aab8bb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.562fe4c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Sep 25, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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git:20260925.04e78a32026-09-25 04e78a3 6,175 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  14 of 14 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7349 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

hex/claude-council · 892 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bmeydekpefkpr5bu
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hex/claude-council/mods/council-pane/DESIGN.md
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4b6c8bbf81aab8bb3773fd1ef09252a581402feadd3eb5440b4ec4729d6050b4

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Guides: what DESIGN.md is and how agents use it · which agent file does what.

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