critique

critique is a command for coding agents from educlopez/ui-craft. It costs 56 tokens per session (958 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design review command that examines an interface for visual hierarchy, clarity, and common low-quality design patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a website or app screen and receive a findings table, with no code changes unless requested.
Why use it?
It helps identify what makes a user interface confusing or visually weak before a handoff or presentation.

Command

Part of the ui-craft plugin — 29 skills, 25 commands, 2 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/educlopez/ui-craft/critique
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/educlopez/ui-craft

Or install ui-craft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 25 commands, 2 agents, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Your own site
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Per session 56 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 958 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00056 $0.00958
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00479
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00096

Measured 4d ago against content hash 19cacf0a4a64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 4d 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.

cli/assets/claude/commands/critique.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Critique the UI at $ARGUMENTS through a design lens. Load the ui-craft skill.

Step 0: Visual capture (mandatory)

Code-only review is insufficient. Every audit/critique starts with the surface as the user sees it. Try the following in order; use the first one available:

  1. Playwright MCP — if playwright MCP server is available, use it. Capture full-page screenshots at three viewports: desktop (1280×800), tablet (768×1024), mobile (375×812). Capture dark mode if the app supports it.
  2. Browser DevTools / Chrome MCP — second choice; same viewport set.
  3. Other browser automation (agent-browser, cursor-ide-browser) — third choice.
  4. Ask the user — last resort. If no automation is available, request screenshots from the user before proceeding. Be specific:
    • "Visual review needs screenshots. Please provide:
      • Full-page at 1280px (desktop)
      • Full-page at 768px (tablet)
      • Full-page at 375px (mobile)
      • Dark mode of each, if supported."

Do not begin the review until visuals are captured or provided. State this explicitly to the user when no automation succeeds — don't silently fall back to code-only review.

If the user declines to provide screenshots, run a code-only pass and clearly mark the report [CODE-ONLY REVIEW — visual issues not assessed] at the top so the limitation is explicit.

Knob awareness (CRAFT_LEVEL sets the bar for what counts as "needs work"):

  • CRAFT_LEVEL 3 → flag only anti-slop Critical items. Skip Minor polish.
  • CRAFT_LEVEL 5-7 → flag Critical + Major. Mention Minor polish as optional.
  • CRAFT_LEVEL 9+ → flag everything, including Minor polish and missing signature detail.

Run these lenses in order:

  1. Anti-Slop Test (from SKILL.md): flag every item present. Critical first (ALL CAPS, purple gradients, identical card grids, bounce easing, emoji icons, glassmorphism + neon). Then major (colored pills on trends, thick colored borders, uniform radii, gradient text, walls of text). Then minor (straight quotes, missing tabular-nums, generic CTAs).
  2. Craft Test (from SKILL.md): where does the design fall short of "one accent, 3-5 placements; plain secondary text for comparisons; functional color only; every section earns its space"?
  3. Hierarchy: can the user tell what's primary, secondary, tertiary at a glance? Or does everything shout equally?
  4. Clarity: is the value prop legible in 5 seconds? Are CTAs specific (not "Learn more")?
  5. Signature detail: is there one memorable element that makes this feel designed, not assembled? If not, suggest one (motif, layout break, custom marker, distinctive hover).
  6. Inspiration gap — read references/inspiration.md: which observed pattern from the archetypes / signature details applies here, and how does the current state diverge from it?

Output format — the Review Format table:

Before After Why

Prioritize by impact, not by file order. End with a one-paragraph summary of the top 3 changes that would raise this from "AI-generated" to "designed".

Do NOT edit code. This is a critique.

Close with a Craft Report (references/review.md → Craft Report) as the final wrapper around the findings table and top-3 summary — Checked names the lenses actually run (Anti-Slop, Craft Test, Hierarchy, Clarity, Signature, Inspiration gap) and at what CRAFT_LEVEL bar, Passed carries whatever held up under those lenses, Changed stays empty (critique doesn't edit), Left alone covers anything flagged but out of scope, Verdict is the one-sentence state. Produce it even when the surface passes clean — that's the validation the user is asking for.

Next step: /polish — apply the fixes this critique named (rung 1).

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. 4d ago First seen · 52 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 19cacf0a4a64

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critique is a command published in the GitHub repository educlopez/ui-craft (310 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 958 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.