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skill-domain-routing-designer

The mechanics/economy/feel/narrative/UI-UX/documentation intent→skill lookup tables (moved 2026-08-24, context-budget lever — pure reference consulted only after the agent already decided to do design work) now live in the on-demand skill t1k-designer-base-skill-domain-routing. Invoke it — or /t1k:find-skill "<query>" — when resolving “which t1k-designer-* skill handles X.”

For core T1K skills (cook, fix, plan, etc.), see skills/t1k-help/references/skill-domain-routing.md.

Review & Validation (Design-Perspective, NOT Code-Reviewer)

Section titled “Review & Validation (Design-Perspective, NOT Code-Reviewer)”

This stays a rule (not the skill above) because it is a prohibition that fires unsummoned — it prevents an agent from reaching for t1k-code-reviewer before it would ever think to look up a routing table.

Rule: Reviewing or validating design docs, wiki pages, narrative content, balance plans, or any artifact produced by a designer-kit skill MUST use design-perspective agents — NOT t1k-code-reviewer. That agent is for code-quality concerns (security, patterns, DRY/KISS); it is the wrong lens for design artifacts.

User wants to…

  • Validate plan completeness, phase structure, dependency graph, success criteria → t1k-planner agent (core; audits its own discipline)
  • Review design docs for content/pillar coverage — does the deliverable serve the documented design pillars? → t1k-designer-game-designer agent
  • Review design docs for data SSOT compliance — is narrative referencing CSV/JSON source-of-truth correctly? Activate t1k:designer:base:data-authoring skill alongside → t1k-designer-game-designer agent
  • Review for tone, voice, pillar fidelity, alternative-tone risks during multi-agent fan-out → t1k-designer-brainstormer agent
  • Review for production readiness, ship-gate, stakeholder-decision propagation, milestone gates → t1k-designer-game-producer agent
  • Review for wiki organization, navigability, cross-link consistency → t1k-designer-game-designer agent (with t1k:designer:wiki:core skill active)

Multi-round design validation (5-round adversarial pattern)

Section titled “Multi-round design validation (5-round adversarial pattern)”

When the user requests “validate in N rounds” or asks for adversarial review on design artifacts, prefer this distribution over generic t1k-code-reviewer chains:

RoundAgentLens
1t1k-plannerPlan rigor — phase structure, file ownership, success criteria coverage, risk register
2t1k-designer-game-designerDesign completeness — pillars served, content coverage, no contradictions to GDD
3t1k-designer-game-designer (with t1k:designer:base:data-authoring)Data SSOT — CSV/JSON read-before-write, no narrative-data drift
4t1k-designer-brainstormerTone & voice — pillar fidelity under parallel fan-out, alternative-tone risks
5t1k-designer-game-producerProduction readiness — stakeholder gates, ship gates, milestone alignment

Each name above is the exact subagent_type to pass to Agent — the identity, per rules/agent-name-is-identity.md. t1k-planner ships with core; the other three ship with this kit.

Anti-pattern: spawning ≥2 t1k-code-reviewer agents for design-doc validation. It cannot judge whether lore content serves the game’s pillars, whether tooltips drift from items.csv, or whether a story bible’s faction conflict reads as comedy vs. melodrama. Use designer-perspective agents.