A live try, recorded 24 October 2026 · Kiro
A record shop's website, for people who love Paterson and Nujabes
Recorded with the live try's own runner: the same prompts, agent files and Kiro sessions the hosted try runs for a juror.
- Host
- Kiro 2.24.0
- Model
- claude-opus-5.5
- Moûsa
- 0.7.0
- Started
- 24 October 2026
- Time
- 7.2 minutes
- Qloo requests
- 12
- Pictures
- none: imagery drawn in SVG or CSS
Play both
The design's own files as the session left them, running sandboxed on a separate origin.
Moûsa · Comparison
For an audience that loves Paterson and Nujabes
With Qloo and Without Qloo: the same brief, the same frozen prediction and the same stages. Only the source of the taste differs.
0.65
heuristic distance between the two designs, from 0 (alike) to 1
0.54 Palette0.75 Type0.91 Sections0.42 CSS features
7 of 7With Qloo: design devices rest on what the model did not predict
7Without Qloo: design devices rest on the model's own prediction, with no Qloo data
Samefrozen prediction in both arms
0 · 1signatures of the look models default to, of 12: With Qloo · Without Qloo
Side by side
The last reviewed captures of each arm, paired by what they show.
desktop
mobile
desktop · week-programme
mobile · shelf-cards
mobile · counter
desktop · shop
mobile · newsletter-jcard
Before any data: the model's own prediction
Frozen before Qloo was asked, so what Qloo adds can be told apart from what the model already assumed. An entry a measured name matches is marked; the match is liberal, so it only lowers what counts as new.
The design the model would make from it alone
A warm, slow one-page shop site like a liner-notes booklet: cream-on-brown paper, a spinning record in the hero, typewriter details and a poem-like intro, with hours and Thursday sessions set as a track list.
#2b2118#f1e6d2#c2703d#6b7a5a#e0b95bType: Literata, Courier Prime and Caveat
#hero#shop#listening-corner#sessions#visit#newsletter- slowly spinning record
- track-list hours
- notebook poem lines
- paper grain
- waxing and waning moon phases
The audience it expected
People drawn to quiet, everyday poetry and warm, jazz-sampling lo-fi hip hop: patient listeners who value routine, craft, small rituals and melancholy calm over spectacle.
Pacing
slow-pacedcontemplativeminimalist measuredepisodicquiet measured
Surfaces
analog warmthfilm grainmuted earth toneshandmadelo-fi texture matched Lo-Fi (mood quality)
Tone
melancholic measuredgentleintrospective measurednostalgic measuredhopeful
Shared qualities
everyday poetryritual and routinejazz influenceurban solitudeunderstated humor
The works it expected them to love
Brands
MujiMoleskineAudio-TechnicaCriterion CollectionKinfolkAesop
Films
Lost in TranslationPerfect DaysCoffee and CigarettesSpirited AwayIn the Mood for LoveBroken Flowers
Music
J Dilla measuredShing02Uyama HirotoBonoboKhruangbinJinsang
Books
Norwegian WoodLeaves of GrassKafka on the ShoreLunch PoemsStoner
TV
Samurai ChamplooCowboy BebopMidnight DinerTwin PeaksAtlanta
Sealed at the freeze: SHA-256 be8e3435a247d7acc6c23000da1bd6fa7c875969dc415c178541bd571c3b3175. The prediction shown here still matches it.
What Qloo measured
What this audience loves, the qualities those works share and the tags ranked for it. New means the prediction did not contain it.
Look qualities
- Atmospheric newin Synecdoche, New York, the Microphones and Swiss Army Man · ×1.69 as often as across audiences
- Raw newin Neutral Milk Hotel, Mount Eerie and Jordaan Mason & the Horse Museum · ×2.15 as often as across audiences
- Minimalist predictedin the Microphones, Sun Kil Moon and MF DOOM · ×1.34 as often as across audiences
- Abstract Hip Hop newin Milo and MF DOOM · ×2.47 as often as across audiences
- Naturalistic newin The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince, Dark Night and Past Imperfect · ×1.23 as often as across audiences
Mood qualities
- Reflective newin I'm Not a Robot, Kino's Journey and Anomalisa · ×2.03 as often as across audiences
- Experimental newin Neutral Milk Hotel, Madvillain and the Microphones · ×2.38 as often as across audiences
- Lo-Fi predictedin Neutral Milk Hotel, the Microphones and Milo · ×3.11 as often as across audiences
- Character driven newin The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince, Melloga Chejil and 20th Century Women · ×1.17 as often as across audiences
- Abstract newin Madvillain and Milo · ×2.47 as often as across audiences
Meaning qualities
- Identity newin The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince, the Microphones and LoveTrue · ×1.89 as often as across audiences
- Mortality newin Mount Eerie, Sun Kil Moon and The Happy Film · ×2.45 as often as across audiences
- Analytical newin Katanagatari, Right Now, Wrong Then and Starless Dreams · ×2.24 as often as across audiences
- Love newin Mount Eerie, J Dilla and Nick Drake · ×1.43 as often as across audiences
- Overcoming adversity newin My Mister and Fight for My Way · ×2.47 as often as across audiences
Brands
- LA Kings newBlack And Silver Palette · Minimalist Logo Design · Iconic Visual Branding
- Starbucks newCompanies based in Seattle · Starbucks · Food & Dining App
- Uniqlo newClean Lines · Neutral Palette · Fashion
- The North Face new2010s fashion · Clothing brands of the United States · Mountaineering equipment manufacturers
Brands, lesser known
- Maxwell House Coffee newTraditional · Blue And Yellow Branding · Clear And Functional
- Temu newVibrant · Busy · Utility-Focused
Films
- Anomalisa newMoody · Melancholic · Character studies
- Frances Ha newSelf absorbed · Reflective · Charming
- The Lobster newThe forest · Appreciates dark humor · Agony
- Synecdoche, New York newAtmospheric · Art and creativity · Electronic translator
Cautions the measurement raised
- Minimalist is carried mostly by brands (Foursquare, Harry's, GoPro): it is the design this audience sees every day. Translate the genre of that design, such as broadcast graphics, packaging type or signage, never a brand's logo, mascot, exact colours or products.
Layer by layer
Each arm's devices for the same layer of the design.
palette
With Qloo
Copier grey, toner black, one riso-blue spot ink
#dcdcd7#151515#2a45c9#8a8c8eWithout Qloo
Sodium lamp on dark wax
#1c1712#2a221a#e8d9bf#d9822b#4f6b63#a63d2ftypography
With Qloo
Pasted-up heavy grotesque over an indie grotesk, typewriter for times
Pasted-up heavy grotesque over an indie grotesk, typewriter for times
Archivo Black
Pasted-up heavy grotesque over an indie grotesk, typewriter for times
Familjen Grotesk
Pasted-up heavy grotesque over an indie grotesk, typewriter for times
Cutive Mono
Without Qloo
Liner-notes typewriter beside a book serif, with a handwritten J-card hand
Liner-notes typewriter beside a book serif, with a handwritten J-card hand
Literata
Liner-notes typewriter beside a book serif, with a handwritten J-card hand
Courier Prime
Liner-notes typewriter beside a book serif, with a handwritten J-card hand
Caveat
imagery
With Qloo
Stamped white-label record and the two-turntable corner, drawn in toner
#listening-corner-drawingsvg#white-labelsvg#turntable-pairWithout Qloo
Hand-drawn record and the two-turntable corner
#listening-cornersvg#record-herosvg#turntablesmotion
With Qloo
A slow, pensive turn of the white label
@keyframes slow-turnWithout Qloo
Thirty-three and a third turn
@keyframes spin-33@keyframes needle-dropvoice
With Qloo
Plain words to the regulars
Records for people who listen all the way through.
Two turntables in the corner. Play it before you take it home.
Thursdays at 19:30, we listen together.
Without Qloo
Lunchtime-poem lines
A small room in Moda for records, and for listening to them properly.
On Thursdays at 19:30 the room goes quiet and we listen together.
Mondays, the needle rests.
layout
With Qloo
Repertory programme week and a black Thursday title card
#week-programme#thursday-cardWithout Qloo
Newsletter as a ruled cassette J-card
#newsletter-jcardstructure
With Qloo
Shelf cards tucked into the bins
#shelf-cards#counterWithout Qloo
The week as a track list, Side A and Side B
#hours-tracklist#thursday-sessionEach arm's own review
The agent of each arm judged its own captures against its own plan.
With Qloo
Round 2: 5 met, 0 partly, 0 missed.
Round 2 repairs are in: the mobile header now keeps its typed links, the copier grain is heavier, and the Thursday card sits closer to the week grid. All five criteria are met.
Check: 1.00, 7 of 7 devices in the files.
The look models default to: 0 of 12 signatures.
Without Qloo
Round 2: 4 met, 0 partly, 0 missed.
Round 2 removed the ambient glow, turned the crate cards into record-bin dividers over packed spines and replaced the stock accent button with a play-key link and a typed stamp key. All four criteria are met and the remaining common choices each serve an anchor.
Check: 1.00, 7 of 7 devices in the files.
The look models default to: 1 of 12 signatures (a near-black ground lit by one warm amber accent).
Limits
- One pair is one sample. Model variance alone makes two designs differ, so one distance does not isolate what Qloo changed; repeat the pair before calling a difference the data's effect.
- The distance is a heuristic over palettes, type classes, landmark sections and CSS features. It does not measure quality or what people prefer.
- The headline counts devices anchored to what the prediction did not contain. It shows that the data changed the specification, not that the result is better.
What the agent did
49 Moûsa calls, 7 refused by a validator and repaired; 4 reads, 18 writes and 0 shell commands. Tool names, stages and outcomes only: no file contents, commands or model text.
The prediction session
- taste_profile
- materials
- design_validate
- design_validate
The arm with Qloo
- mousa_status
- taste_profile
- read ×2
- materials
- design_validate
- design_validate
- design_validate
- materials
- write ×3
- design_check
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_validate refused: TASTE_PROTOCOL_INVALID
- design_validate refused: TASTE_PROTOCOL_INVALID
- design_validate refused: TASTE_PROTOCOL_INVALID
- design_validate refused: TASTE_PROTOCOL_INVALID
- design_validate
- write ×4
- design_check
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_validate
- design_report
The arm without Qloo
- mousa_status
- taste_profile
- read
- materials
- read
- design_validate
- design_validate
- design_validate
- materials
- write ×4
- design_check
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_validate refused: TASTE_PROTOCOL_INVALID
- design_validate
- write ×7
- design_check
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_validate refused: TASTE_PROTOCOL_INVALID
- design_validate refused: TASTE_PROTOCOL_INVALID
- design_validate
- design_report
Run it again
A try runs the same prompts each time; the model reaches its own prediction and design, and the measurement and the comparison are made the same way.
The request
Design a one-page website for Wax & Wane, a small record shop in Moda, Istanbul. It is for people who love Paterson and Nujabes. Use the Moûsa plugin, so the design rests on what this audience actually loves. Facts to keep exactly: - Name: Wax & Wane - Address: Moda Caddesi 42, Kadıköy, Istanbul - Open Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00 to 21:00; closed on Mondays - New and used vinyl, a listening corner with two turntables, and a listening session every Thursday at 19:30 - A newsletter sign-up form that asks for an email address only Build it as static HTML and CSS in this folder, with a small script only if the design needs one. Write all copy in English.
The command
From the repository at commit 9060779:
node scripts/run-try.mjs --starter blank-site --references "Paterson; Nujabes" --pair- Your own Qloo API key as QLOO_API_KEY in this repository's .env.
- Kiro CLI 2.24.0, signed in or with KIRO_API_KEY.
- A Chromium-based browser for the review captures (MOUSA_BROWSER names one).
The record's files
The same evidence as data and as pictures, for reading without this site.
The report on its ownrecord.jsonThe whole report as one pictureThe card
