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DESIGN.md from sdusteric/earshot is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.

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DESIGN.md file
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A voice that tells you which Claude Code session needs you, with an Activity window that works as an inbox of sessions on the orb's cool near-black glass and shows the day as a slim timeline strip.

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What the file says

# Design System: Kobi

## Overview

**Creative North Star: "The Orb's Glass"**

Kobi is a menu bar app whose face is a particle orb on dark glass. The rest of the interface takes its ground and its colors from the orb: a cool near-black, and a small set of state hues that mean the same thing everywhere (light blue for your words, violet for working, amber for Kobi's voice, orange for what needs you). The Activity window always renders dark, whatever the system appearance, because the light points need a dark backing.

The Activity window is an inbox for your sessions. A native sidebar lists the brief ("Since You Left"), today's history, and every session grouped by what it needs from you. The first page is the brief, written for the moment you come back: who is waiting on you, with the question and the answer controls right there, one line per session about what changed, and what you asked. Selecting a session swaps the detail for that session's own view: its last turns from its transcript, what it waits on you for, and a reply field. The day runs along the bottom of the brief as a slim timeline strip, the one custom drawn object besides the orb.
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How to install

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Source

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sdusteric/earshot · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

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GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sdusteric/earshot/DESIGN.md
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dca23deb9c0ae0a68cf743b4b78cf14f7e4fd59e80a04786896ccfcb0e981186

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