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DESIGN.md from untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.

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Use for any renderer UI, visual polish, component, layout, theme, motion, or interaction change in Agent Orchestrator. Read before proposing or implementing visual work.

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

# Design system — Agent Orchestrator

Agent Orchestrator (AO) is serious desktop software for supervising parallel AI coding work. It makes the state of a project legible: what is running, what needs a human, what is safe to ship, and where intervention will have the most leverage.

This is a product UI, not a marketing site. It must feel calm under sustained use, reward scanning, and preserve the terminal as a first-class working surface.

## Reference boundary and migration stance

This guide is deliberately based only on these approved visual references: the app shell; sidebar and its project section; tooltips; iconography; typography; tokens and themes; borders, shadows and outlines; the New Task, Clone Repository, Settings and Add Project flows; dropdowns used in Settings and New Task; and the kanban board with its cards.

Do **not** infer a visual rule from another AO screen merely because it exists today. Much of the application is still being de-slopped. Existing rounded cards, isolated borders, shadows, all-caps metadata, extra helper copy, or one-off button styling outside the approved references are migration debt, not precedent.
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Source

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untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator · 13,404 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_z65jnjqqpazvipqw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator/DESIGN.md
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