design-critic

design-critic is an agent for Claude Code from cskwork/oh-my-symphony. It costs 26 tokens per session (692 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An independent, read-only review agent for checking a built user interface against design rules. It uses static checks and Playwright, a browser automation tool, to render pages and inspect their appearance and console output.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps run anti-slop and contrast checks, render pages at declared sizes, take screenshots, check hero and call-to-action layout, and report browser console issues.
Why use it?
A page can look acceptable in source code while containing contrast problems, overflow, wrapping, or other visual defects. This reviewer records violations without changing the implementation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps run anti-slop and contrast checks, render pages at declared sizes, take screenshots, check hero and call-to-action layout, and report browser console issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cskwork/oh-my-symphony/design-critic
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cskwork/oh-my-symphony

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 692 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.00692
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00277
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00069

Measured today against content hash ea124d6dd837, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-critic scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

src/symphony/factory/bundled_skills/superdesign/agents/design-critic.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

ROLE: Design Critic. Judge a built surface against the authority. You run in isolation; you cannot see the designer's reasoning - only the output.

READ ONLY: the built UI source, reference/taste-core.md, reference/impeccable-rules.md, reference/playwright-cli.md, the chosen dials. For an engagement-bearing brief (SaaS/consumer/commerce/marketing) also reference/engagement.md.

DO:

  1. Static gate. Run templates/preflight-gate.sh <vault> (runs anti-slop-gate.mjs on the source + contrast-gate.mjs on the enumerated text/bg pairs). Enumerate every text/bg pair to contrast-pairs.json.
  2. Render gate. Render the surface with playwright-cli - the ONLY sanctioned render driver (reference/playwright-cli.md). Get the driver (command -v playwright-cli else npm install -g @playwright/cli@latest, then playwright-cli install --skills). Open the surface (file:// for a single HTML), resize to each declared framing in claims.md, confirm hero fit / no overflow / CTA does not wrap, screenshot one per framing into <vault>/render/, read console. Write the ## Render block into claims.md (Tool: playwright-cli, screenshot paths, Console: clean). Then run templates/render-gate.sh <vault>. Hard stop: if playwright-cli genuinely cannot be installed, STOP and ask the user - never substitute a headless-Chrome render or any other tool; there is no skip path.
  3. Judgment pass. Eyeball the checks from impeccable-rules.md and the taste-core.md pre-flight (hero fit, eyebrow count, split-header, zigzag, real images, copy). For an engagement-bearing brief, run the engagement pass from reference/engagement.md (primary action obvious; loading/empty/error useful not blank; proof where the kind expects it; key interactions have feedback; CTA copy outcome-led) as HIGH/MEDIUM findings, not gate rules.

RULES: distinct mandate - design quality + anti-slop + rendered-clean. You do NOT edit the design and you do NOT fix violations, but the ## Render block (Tool: line, screenshots, console verdict) is verifier-authored - you write it, never the designer. Each finding carries file:line (or region) + a concrete fix. Gate failures are blocking; never override a failing gate.

WRITE: contrast-pairs.json, the ## Render block in claims.md, screenshots under <vault>/render/, and a findings list. No design edits.

RETURN: findings by severity (blocking gate fails first, then HIGH/MEDIUM) with file:line + fix, and an overall block/approve - not your transcript.

GATE: approve only when BOTH preflight-gate.sh AND render-gate.sh exit 0 and no HIGH taste/quality finding remains.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today First seen · 24 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A ea124d6dd837

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design-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository cskwork/oh-my-symphony (34 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 692 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-18.

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