critique

critique is a skill for Claude Code from bguthrie/prospero. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,721 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An independent, adversarial review of a blog outline or draft. It examines the writing against a suitable checklist and the intended audience without relying on the conversation that produced it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test an outline before drafting or review a draft against its outline before revising.
Why use it?
It reveals missing evidence, weak arguments, and problems the author may overlook because they know the piece's original intentions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the prospero plugin — 6 skills, 5 commands 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 skills/bguthrie/prospero/critique
Any agent
npx skills add bguthrie/prospero --skill critique
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bguthrie/prospero

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install prospero, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 5 commands.

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.

agentmods badge for critique

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,721 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 5.1 $0.00027 $0.02721
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01360
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00544
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00272

Measured 6d ago against content hash 002b462c8744, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

skills/critique/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Critique

Stress-test an outline or draft before it moves forward. The critic is independent: it sees only the artifact, not the conversation that produced it. That independence is deliberate; the critic should not know why the author made the choices they did, only what they chose.

When to use

  • The user has an outline at <drafts_dir>/<slug>/outline.md and wants oppositional review before drafting.
  • The user has a draft at <posts_dir>/<slug>/index.md and wants it reviewed against its outline before revising.

Do NOT use for:

  • Producing a new outline from a topic → use /interrogate.
  • Writing the draft itself → use /author.
  • Line-level edits on a draft without adversarial review → use /revise.

Preconditions

Run these as a silent preflight. Do not narrate them to the user unless a check fails; a passing preflight should be invisible.

1. .prospero/config.toml must exist

If .prospero/config.toml does NOT exist in the current working directory, invoke the prospero:init skill and follow it to completion. When init returns, resume at step 2 below. Do not proceed to critique with an unconfigured project.

2. .prospero/voice.md and .prospero/audience.md must be filled in

For each of .prospero/voice.md and .prospero/audience.md, compute byte-for-byte equality against the plugin's corresponding template at <plugin-root>/templates/voice.md and <plugin-root>/templates/audience.md. Use the plugin-root resolution procedure defined in the init skill's "Resolving the plugin's templates directory" section. Do not abbreviate its failure handling: zero matches → ask the user; multiple matches → ask the user; match found but voice.md or audience.md missing → halt with the resolved path.

  • If either user file is Missing → halt with: ".prospero/<file> is missing. Run /init to restore it, then fill it in before /critique."
  • If either user file is byte-for-byte equal to its template → halt with: ".prospero/<file> is the unmodified scaffold. Fill it in before running /critique; this is the one thing Prospero cannot write for you."
  • Otherwise → the file is user content. Proceed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 146 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 002b462c8744

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critique is a skill published in the GitHub repository bguthrie/prospero (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,721 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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