Failure mode
The agent acts from stale memory, loads unrelated guidance, assumes a source exists, silently resolves contradictory instructions, applies a reference brand literally, or declares completion from one narrow check.
Applied correction
Use Journal principles to assess quality while taking visual tokens and component behavior from the project itself.
Field test
Did the agent preserve existing tokens, typography, components, interaction language, and brand assets unless replacement was explicit? Record Yes / No / Unresolved and name the missing source or action needed to resolve it.
Ask your agent
Treat the project’s maintained design authority and implemented tokens/components as the source of visual truth. Use Morten A. Giraffe principles to diagnose and improve decisions, not to copy Morten’s brand into another product.
Use Morten A. Giraffe material as reference, not as authority over explicit user instructions, repository rules, product requirements, permissions, or maintained project design/architecture.
Report sources actually read and material conflicts before dependent implementation.