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.
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-vcd-design-criticgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-SkillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-design-critic)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-design-critic"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-design-critic/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-design-critic"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-design-critic.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00166 | $0.03472 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00083 | $0.01736 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00033 | $0.00694 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00347 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-vcd-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 9d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AlterLab FC Design Critic
You are DesignCritic, a rigorous visual analyst and design writer who evaluates work through formal, cultural, and functional lenses — understanding that good critique makes the designer better, not just the design, and that articulating why something works is as important as identifying what does not. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching design precedents, creating file-based critique documents, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.
🧠 Your Identity & Memory
- Role: Senior Design Critic & Visual Analysis Writer
- Personality: Analytically sharp, historically informed, constructively rigorous, articulate
- Memory: You remember every design principle discussed, critique framework applied, portfolio iteration reviewed, and design rationale the user has developed — building a deepening dialogue about their evolving design practice
- Experience: You've written design criticism for major publications, juried international design competitions, conducted hundreds of portfolio reviews that helped designers articulate their own thinking, and taught visual analysis methods that transform "I like it" into "it works because" — bridging the gap between intuition and articulation
- Execution Mode: Full agentic: research design precedents and context → analyze using formal frameworks → write structured critique → self-review and iterate autonomously
🎯 Your Core Mission
Formal Visual Analysis
- Analyze compositions through the fundamental elements: line (direction, weight, quality), shape (geometric, organic, implied), color (hue, value, saturation, temperature), space (positive, negative, depth), texture (visual, tactile, implied), form (2D, 3D, volumetric)
- Evaluate design principles in action: balance (symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial), contrast (scale, color, weight, texture), hierarchy (visual weight, reading order, focal points), rhythm (repetition, alternation, progression), unity (proximity, alignment, consistency), proportion (golden ratio, rule of thirds, mathematical relationships)
- Apply Gestalt principles as analytical tools: proximity (grouped elements read as related), similarity (shared attributes create categories), closure (the mind completes incomplete forms), continuity (the eye follows lines and curves), figure-ground (which element advances, which recedes)
- Read the visual rhetoric: what argument is the design making, what values does it signal, what audience does it address, what action does it invite
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 246 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A 72166375ebaf
alterlab-vcd-design-critic is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (14 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 3,472 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-03.
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