A live try, recorded 23 October 2026 · Kiro
A record shop's website, for people who love Taylor Swift and Gilmore Girls
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
- 0.6.0
- Started
- 23 October 2026
- Time
- 6.6 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 Taylor Swift and Gilmore Girls
With Qloo and Without Qloo: the same brief, the same frozen prediction and the same stages. Only the source of the taste differs.
0.68
heuristic distance between the two designs, from 0 (alike) to 1
0.66 Palette0.83 Type0.93 Sections0.26 CSS features
7 of 8With 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
2 · 4signatures 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 · tracklist
mobile · hours
desktop · b3-letters
mobile · crates
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 cozy autumnal one-pager like a small-town diner noticeboard: cream paper, burgundy and mustard, a big editorial serif with handwritten margin notes, a spinning record hero, and a weekly listening-session card.
#f4ead8#7a2e2a#d9a441#3b4a3a#2a1f1aType: DM Serif Display, Literata and Caveat
#hero#crates#listening-corner#thursday-sessions#visit#newsletter- slowly spinning vinyl
- handwritten margin notes
- coffee-ring stains
- autumn leaves
- friendship-bracelet beads
The audience it expected
Millennial and Gen Z fans of confessional, narrative songwriting and cozy small-town comfort TV; they love autumn, books, coffee, nostalgia and witty, warm talk, and collect vinyl variants as keepsakes.
Pacing
cozydialogue-drivenslow-burnsmall-townheartwarming matched Heartfelt (mood quality)
Surfaces
autumnalcottagecorevintagewarm lighting matched Warm (look quality)handwritten
Tone
nostalgicbittersweetwitty measuredromantic measuredcomforting
Shared qualities
coming of age measuredsmall-town communityheartbreak and healingmother-daughter bondsstorytelling through lyrics
The works it expected them to love
Brands
Urban Outfitters measuredStarbucks measuredBarnes & NobleAnthropologieFree PeoplePolaroid
Films
Little WomenYou've Got MailWhen Harry Met Sally...Pride & PrejudiceThe HolidayNotting Hill
Music
Phoebe BridgersOlivia RodrigoLana Del ReySabrina CarpenterGracie AbramsBon Iver
Books
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn HugoNormal PeopleIt Ends with Us
TV
FriendsGilmore Girls: A Year in the Life measuredHart of Dixie measuredThe O.C.Grey's AnatomyVirgin River
Sealed at the freeze: SHA-256 59d7cd8d09cc7e966711a2c308986bdca9ca0f58e75e5fd032878e279c2c11c8. 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
- Intimate newin Bunheads, Men in Trees and Good Trouble
- Bright newin Younger, Accidentally in Love and Aquafina Splash
- Energetic newin Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Maroon 5
- Naturalistic newin Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Life Sentence and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
- Casual newin Urban Outfitters and Accidentally in Love
Mood qualities
- Emotional newin Adele, Christina Perri and October Road
- Vulnerable newin Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Christina Perri and Hart of Dixie
- Loyal newin Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson and October Road
- Compassionate newin Men in Trees, Being Erica and 13 Going on 30
- Heartfelt predictedin October Road, Good Trouble and Love, Rosie
Meaning qualities
- Romantic predictedin Younger, Love, Rosie and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Emotionally engaged newin Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Bunheads and Younger
- Coming of age predictedin Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Everwood and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
- Passionate newin Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Adele
- Personal Growth newin Everwood, Life Sentence and Colbie Caillat
Brands
- Starbucks predictedCompanies based in Seattle · Starbucks · Food & Dining App
- Victoria's Secret newPink And Black Color Palette · 1977 establishments in California · Swimwear manufacturers
- Urban Outfitters predictedBohemian · Vintage-Inspired · Eclectic
- Gap newChildren\s clothing brands · Family-owned companies of the United States · Clothing brands of the United States
Brands, lesser known
- Barclay's Gap Good Rewards Mastercard newProfessional · Minimalist · Financial Branding
- LA Kings newBlack And Silver Palette · Minimalist Logo Design · Iconic Visual Branding
Films
- Love, Rosie newWarm · Montage driven · Time spanning
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 newIntimate · Soft palette · Dress rehearsal
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants newWitty · Romantic · Photography
- Letters to Juliet newWarm · Resilient · Charming
Cautions the measurement raised
- Bright is carried mostly by brands (Aquafina Splash, Evolve Vacation Rental): it may describe their products' design more than this audience's eye.
- Casual is carried mostly by brands (Urban Outfitters): it may describe their products' design more than this audience's eye.
Layer by layer
Each arm's devices for the same layer of the design.
palette
With Qloo
Sunlit blush ground with a coral chorus and a cobalt night
#fff5f0#1c1a40#ff4f6d#2b4ad8#ffd23f#ffd9e0Without Qloo
Cream paper, burgundy and mustard under lamp light
#f4ead8#7a2e2a#d9a441#3b4a3a#2a1f1atypography
With Qloo
Fashion didone headlines over an expressive grotesque
Fashion didone headlines over an expressive grotesque
Prata
Fashion didone headlines over an expressive grotesque
Bricolage Grotesque
Without Qloo
Confessional editorial serif with handwritten margin notes
Confessional editorial serif with handwritten margin notes
DM Serif Display
Confessional editorial serif with handwritten margin notes
Literata
Confessional editorial serif with handwritten margin notes
Caveat
imagery
With Qloo
Drawn vinyl whose label waxes like a moon
#sleevesvg#hero-recordWithout Qloo
Hand-drawn record on a turntable with falling autumn leaves
#herosvg#hero-recordmotion
With Qloo
Chorus rise and a 33 1/3 spin
@keyframes groove-spin@keyframes chorus-riseWithout Qloo
Slow turntable spin with a pause button
@keyframes spin-slow@keyframes rise-invoice
With Qloo
Emotional, hopeful lines in plain words
Records for every phase you're in.
Put the needle down. Feel all of it.
Every Thursday at 19:30, we listen together.
Without Qloo
Bittersweet, witty shop talk
Sad songs, warm room.
Every era of your life deserves a soundtrack. Come dig for yours.
We put the needle down at 19:30 and listen together, start to finish.
layout
With Qloo
The newsletter as a letter in an envelope
#b3-lettersWithout Qloo
Instant-photo crate cards, tilted and pinned
#cratesstructure
With Qloo
The page as a two-sided tracklist
#tracklist#side-a#side-b#a1-crates#b1-thursdayWithout Qloo
The page as a record: Side A and Side B tracklist
#side-a#side-b#tracklistinteraction
With Qloo
A week of moon phases for the opening hours
#hourssvg#moon-weekWithout Qloo
No device in this layer.
Each arm's own review
The agent of each arm judged its own captures against its own plan.
With Qloo
Round 1: 5 met, 0 partly, 0 missed.
All five criteria are met in round 1: the moon-label record leads the first screen, the didone headline holds at mobile width, the page reads as a two-sided tracklist, the hours read as a waxing moon week with Monday dark, and the newsletter is an envelope asking only for an email address. No repairs are needed.
Check: 1.00, 8 of 8 devices in the files.
The look models default to: 2 of 12 signatures (a warm cream or off-white page ground and fully rounded pill buttons).
Without Qloo
Round 2: 5 met, 0 partly, 0 missed.
In round 2 all five criteria are met. Removing the hidden starting state of the reveal animation made the crate cards visible on mobile. The hero turntable, the type, the palette and the Side A/B tracklist hold up as they did in round 1.
Check: 1.00, 7 of 7 devices in the files.
The look models default to: 4 of 12 signatures (a warm cream or off-white page ground, a display serif model-made pages default to, zero-padded section or card numbers (01, 02, 03) and fully rounded pill buttons).
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
36 Moûsa calls; 4 reads, 10 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
The arm with Qloo
- mousa_status
- taste_profile
- read ×2
- materials
- materials
- design_validate
- design_validate
- design_validate
- materials
- write ×3
- design_check
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_validate
- design_report
The arm without Qloo
- mousa_status
- taste_profile
- read ×2
- design_validate
- materials
- design_validate
- design_validate
- materials
- write ×3
- design_check
- write
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_validate
- write ×3
- design_check
- design_capture
- design_capture
- design_capture
- 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 Taylor Swift and Gilmore Girls. 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 2166fed:
node scripts/run-try.mjs --starter blank-site --references "Taylor Swift; Gilmore Girls" --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
