Overview

BUREAU is an autonomous digital design bureau: concept, art direction, motion, WebGL, Figma, Playwright QA, accessibility, performance, and adversarial review.

BUREAU is an agent skill that turns a language model into a complete design bureau: creative direction, art direction, typography, color, motion, WebGL, video, Figma, Playwright QA, accessibility, performance, copy, and adversarial review.

It is not a template generator. It is a system for aesthetic decisions backed by evidence.

git clone https://github.com/acf1210/bureau.git
cd bureau
bash installers/install.sh --agent all --scope user --dry-run
bash installers/install.sh --agent all --scope user

Restart your agent and ask: "Use BUREAU to design my brand site."

The problem

Models are trained on the average of the internet. Without direction they produce the same centered hero, the same purple gradient, the same three icon cards, the same "empower your business" copy. That is not a CSS problem. It is a lack of concept, specificity, and review.

BUREAU attacks all three:

Concept before pixels — three directions, one argued choice.
Verifiable craft — typography, color, composition, motion, and performance with explicit rubrics.
Adversarial review — ten independent gates and a Tribunal with veto power.

What it does

Capability	Output
Creative direction	three distinct directions, decision matrix, signature move
Art direction	visual world, palette, type, material, light, image
Design system	OKLCH tokens, type scale, spacing, motion, components
Motion	motion grammar, scroll narrative, microstates, reduced motion
WebGL / 3D	shaders, Three.js/R3F, particles, static fallback
Video & parallax	compressed loops, poster, captions, depth layers
Figma	MCP, variables, comps, handoff, side-by-side comparison
Playwright	multi-viewport screenshots, contrast, overflow, console, performance
Accessibility	WCAG 2.2 AA, keyboard, focus, motion, media, zoom
Anti-AI-slop	deterministic detector, 106-signal taxonomy, fixes
Copy & truth	voice, headlines, microcopy, sourced claims, SEO, i18n
Ship	OG, analytics, consent, monitoring, rollback

The circuit

G0 Intake → G1 Concept → G2 Direction → G3 Type & Color → G4 Composition
→ G5 Motion → G6 Engineering → G7 Access → G8 Truth → G9 Launch → TRIBUNAL

Each gate has a persona, a weight, hard failures, and required evidence. Total 100. Any P0, any gate below 3.5/5, or missing evidence fails the release.

Verdict	Score
Award Track	≥ 90
Pass	82–89
Conditional	72–81
Fail	< 72

The Tribunal does not rewrite scores. It asks whether the work keeps the promise, whether any gate is passing on charm, and whether the bureau would sign it in public.

Read the full circuit in review-circuit.md.

Why it is different

It does not interview forever. It decides with defensible defaults and at most three blocking questions.
It does not accept "beautiful". Every claim points to a screenshot, metric, recording, or file.
It does not average. A 95 with one accessibility P0 is a Fail.
It does not fabricate credibility. Unsourced metrics, logos, quotes, and awards are P0.
It does not ship a template. Every deliverable has a signature move and a technological proof.
It does not abandon craft. The detector covers the mechanical; the eye covers the rest.

Quick start

# 1. Check the environment
node skill/scripts/doctor.mjs

# 2. Create a project from one of the thirteen templates
node skill/scripts/new-project.mjs my-site --template kinetic-editorial

# 3. Fill in BUREAU.md and run the circuit
node skill/scripts/audit.mjs . --out .bureau/evidence/audit.json
node skill/scripts/visual-audit.mjs http://localhost:4173 --out .bureau/qa
node skill/scripts/review.mjs --status

Repository

skill/                 the installable skill
  SKILL.md             router and doctrine
  references/          33 depth modules
  scripts/             audit, visual-audit, review, tokens, figma-sync, doctor, scaffold
  assets/              templates, tokens, snippets, media, diagrams
installers/            Claude, Codex, Antigravity, Hermes + bash/PowerShell
docs/                  PT-BR, EN, ES
site/                  landing + static docs

License and credits

MIT. BUREAU is an original work; it references Impeccable, Colorfigures, Font Awesome, and the galleries in skill/references/20-reference-library.md. PANTONE® is a trademark of Pantone LLC; BUREAU is not affiliated. Hex values are screen approximations.