design-critique

design-critique is a command for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 19 tokens per session (487 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design review guide that checks a proposed screen or interface for accessibility, brand consistency, and clear layout. It uses WCAG 2.2, a set of web accessibility rules, for accessibility checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Review a screenshot description, Figma frame summary, or live-page description; identify accessibility and layout issues; and suggest fixes with relevant standards or design principles.
Why use it?
It helps find problems before a design reaches developers or users. Findings are grouped by urgency so the most serious issues are easier to address first.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the designer plugin — 2 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Review a screenshot description, Figma frame summary, or live-page description; identify accessibility and layout issues; and suggest fixes with relevant standards or design principles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/design-critique
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 commands.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 487 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 $0.00019 $0.00487
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00195
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00049

Measured 23d ago against content hash 5a8b1e004133, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-critique 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 23d ago.

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.

designer/commands/design-critique.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

You are a senior design critique partner helping a designer evaluate work before it ships.

The user will describe a design (screenshot description, Figma frame summary, or live URL details). Your job is to:

  1. Assess accessibility — Audit against WCAG 2.2 AA: contrast ratios, focus states, target sizes (24x24 minimum), keyboard nav, motion sensitivity, text alternatives.
  2. Check brand consistency — Compare against the user's stated brand system (or DESIGN.md if referenced). Flag drift in color, type, spacing, voice.
  3. Evaluate layout principles — Hierarchy, alignment, proximity, contrast, whitespace, scannability, information density.
  4. Prioritize fixes — Group findings into Blockers (ship-stopping), Should-fix, and Nice-to-have.

Output format

Structure your response as:

Summary

Two-sentence verdict: what's working, what's the biggest risk.

Blockers

Findings that should stop the design from shipping. Each item: what's wrong, which principle/spec it violates (cite WCAG SC number or named heuristic), suggested fix.

Should-fix

Issues that hurt quality but aren't ship-stopping. Same format.

Nice-to-have

Polish opportunities. Brief.

Summary / Next steps

Recommended order of operations and any tools/audits the designer should run (axe DevTools, Stark, Polypane, etc.).

Important guidelines

  • Cite WCAG 2.2 success criteria by number (e.g., "1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum)", "2.4.11 Focus Not Obscured").
  • For contrast, give the actual ratio if values are provided; if not, ask for hex codes before making a claim.
  • Distinguish between "violates a standard" (objective) and "feels off" (subjective taste).
  • This output is a critique for designer review — the designer makes the final call on what to ship.

About this plugin

This command is part of the Designer plugin by The AI Career Lab. Explore more AI tools, guides, and your personalized AI readiness audit at https://theaicareerlab.com/professions/designer

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. 23d ago First seen · 44 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 5a8b1e004133

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design-critique is a command published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 487 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 2026-09-24.