design-critique-template

design-critique-template is a skill for Claude Code from lenar-amirov/product-pipeline-public. It costs 69 tokens per session (581 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured way to review a screen or mockup against the user problem it is meant to solve, then check common usability rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique mockups, check whether screens support a product hypothesis, and review actions, navigation, consistency, and failure states.
Why use it?
It helps catch designs that look good but miss the intended solution, lose important details, add unnecessary scope, or ignore error and empty states.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to critique mockups, check whether screens support a product hypothesis, and review actions, navigation, consistency, and failure states.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lenar-amirov/product-pipeline-public/design-critique-template
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add lenar-amirov/product-pipeline-public --skill design-critique-template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lenar-amirov/product-pipeline-public

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 581 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 $0.00069 $0.00581
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00291
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00058

Measured 12d ago against content hash 93fdf7b9cca2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-critique-template 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 12d 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.

.claude/skills/design-critique-template/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Critique (hypothesis-first)

Critique for the /sketch → design loop (step 9). The order matters: a beautiful screen that doesn't implement the hypothesis mechanism fails the review regardless of heuristics.

1. Hypothesis fit — the first and decisive pass

Load the solution hypotheses this design serves (registry solutions links

  • output/solution-hypotheses.md):
  • Does each screen implement the mechanism from the hypothesis formula ("if X then Y because Z" — is Z actually on the screen)?
  • Did anything essential from output/solution-sketch.md get lost or mutated on the way to the mockup? Name the deltas.
  • Does the design add scope no hypothesis asked for? (scope creep enters through mockups more often than through PRDs)

2. Heuristic pass (classic, kept short)

  • Visibility & hierarchy: is the primary action of each screen unmistakable in 5 seconds?
  • User control: reversibility, escape routes, no dead ends
  • Consistency: platform conventions and the product's own patterns (see ui-pattern-library — novelty only where novelty IS the hypothesis)
  • Error prevention & recovery: empty states, loading, failure paths — the states mockups always forget
  • Recognition over recall: labels over icons-only, context over memory

3. Feedback format

Per issue: screen → what breaks (hypothesis-fit or heuristic, name which) → severity (blocker / major / minor / polish) → concrete suggestion. Blockers first. Praise what works — reviewers who only list defects train designers to hide work.

4. Output

Update output/solution-sketch.md (## Changelog section) with accepted changes; unresolved disagreements go to decisions.md as open questions. If the critique overturns a solution assumption — that's registry news: flag it to the PM (hypotheses.py set <id> --note ...), don't bury it in design comments.

Anti-patterns

  • Critiquing taste ("I'd make it blue") instead of hypothesis fit and heuristics — unfalsifiable feedback teaches nothing.
  • A defect list with no severity — the designer can't sequence fixes.
  • Reviewing the mockup without opening the solution hypothesis — you'll approve a beautiful screen that tests nothing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 12d ago First seen · 56 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 93fdf7b9cca2

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design-critique-template is a skill published in the GitHub repository lenar-amirov/product-pipeline-public (12 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 581 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.

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