Introducing VERSUR Design Agents

Design work is a sequence of jobs - read the brief, research the site, propose directions, visualize, review, refine, present. Generic chat collapses that into one box. Design agents keep the jobs distinct, reusable, and wireable on a workflow canvas.

Today we are introducing VERSUR Design Agents - agents built for architecture and design work on the VERSUR canvas. That means both a fully customizable Agent block and a set of built-in design agents already shaped for common studio jobs.

Two ways on the canvas

Drop a blank Agent when the method is yours - your critique checklist, your studio manual, your tool stack, your refinement loop. Drop a built-in design agent when the job is a known studio step: interpret a brief, research a site, generate concept directions, write a visualization brief, review options.

Custom Agent: build your own

The Agent block is a first-class agent, not a thin model call. You configure who it is, how it works, what it can touch, how it improves, and what it returns.

Skills, manuals, tools, loops

Skills teach method - the steps you would give a new hire. Pin them and they expand into instructions as [skill:id]. Add Skill Manager when the agent should search for more on demand.

Design manuals hold look and language - materials, palette, forms, do and do not. Pin them so Generator prompts and critique stay on-brief. Skill = method. Manual = look. Knowledge = facts. Mixing those three is how agents drift.

Tools turn the agent into an actor: Generator, Knowledge, File Manager, Versur Brain, Rhino or Adobe when the work lives there. In instructions, say how to plan briefly when needed, call tools, and stop when done.

Loops refine across passes on the same block - Creative refinement, Architecture satisfaction, Research then generate, Simple retry, or a loop you create with a rubric. An independent judge scores; the block returns the best-scored pass, not whichever ran last.

Built-in design agents: studio jobs already shaped

When the job is a known step in design work, use a built-in design agent. Each one arrives with a role, structured outputs, and the right defaults - so you spend time on the brief, not on reinventing the block.

• Brief Interpreter - turn a competition or project brief into constraints and a generation spec.
• Design Research / Code & Zoning Research - gather site, precedent, or code context for the next step.
• Concept Directions - propose distinct design directions from intent and brief.
• Visualization Brief - write prompts and framing for image generation.
• Option Review / Design Refinement - score and improve options against intent.
• Presentation Narrative / Storyboard / Palette & Mood - communicate and set visual language.

How they live in a workflow

Design agents are strongest as part of a pipeline. A few blocks show up around almost every design run:

• Starter - how the run begins (chat, API, schedule) and what the user provides.
• Knowledge - search briefs and references; pass formatted context into an agent.
• Generator - images and video from prompts a design agent (or you) prepared.
• Evaluator - score options on the canvas when you want critique as its own block.
• Panel / Display - show people the result without opening raw block output.
• Memory - workflow-scoped preferences; promote lasting facts to Brain.

Available now

Design agents are in the workspace today. Open a workflow, drop a built-in for a known job, or drop Agent and pin the skills and manuals that define how your studio works. Wire Knowledge, Generator, and Panel. Run it. Save the graph for the next project.

Brain is where the practice remembers. Design agents are how the practice does design work - custom when you need control, built-in when the job is already clear.

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