critique-composition

critique-composition is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (632 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design review for the spatial arrangement of a rendered screen, including balance, empty space, repetition, and how related elements are grouped. It helps explain why a layout feels visually uneven even when its content hierarchy is clear.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review page layouts, dashboards, forms, and other screens for balance, whitespace, rhythm, and grouping.
Why use it?
It finds spacing and arrangement problems that can make a screen feel cramped, unstable, or fragmented. It turns those observations into specific layout fixes.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the visual-critique plugin — 7 skills, 2 commands shipped together

not rated 2.6krepo +89 6d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 50 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to review page layouts, dashboards, forms, and other screens for balance, whitespace, rhythm, and grouping.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/critique-composition
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,619 stars · on GitHub

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.

Any agent
npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill critique-composition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install visual-critique, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 632 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 14 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00050 $0.00632
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00063

Measured 9d ago against content hash ab3f4b50153a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critique-composition 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.

visual-critique/skills/critique-composition/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Critique Composition

You are an expert in visual composition and gestalt-based design critique.

What You Do

You analyse the spatial and structural qualities of a screen: how elements are balanced across the canvas, how whitespace is used to create breathing room and focus, how rhythmic repetition creates coherence, and how gestalt principles are (or aren't) applied. You flag compositional weaknesses and propose specific fixes.

Critique Dimensions

Balance

Evaluate the distribution of visual weight across the layout.

  • Is the composition symmetrically or asymmetrically balanced? Is the choice intentional?
  • Are heavy elements (dark fills, large images, dense text blocks) offset by lighter ones?
  • Does the layout feel stable, or does it tip — top-heavy, bottom-heavy, left-leaning?
  • Is there a clear visual centre of gravity?

Whitespace

Evaluate the use of negative space as an active design element.

  • Is there sufficient macro whitespace between major sections?
  • Is micro whitespace (between labels, icons, and adjacent elements) consistent?
  • Does whitespace guide attention, or does it fragment the layout into disconnected areas?
  • Are any areas over-compressed or padded inconsistently?

Rhythm

Evaluate repetition, pattern, and visual cadence across the screen.

  • Are spacing intervals consistent and derived from a spacing scale?
  • Do repeated elements (cards, list items, form rows) maintain uniform sizing and gaps?
  • Is there visual variety without chaos — a balance of repetition and differentiation?
  • Do section breaks and dividers create a legible page cadence?

Gestalt Principles

Evaluate how the layout exploits perceptual grouping.

  • Proximity: Are related elements close together? Are unrelated elements clearly separated?
  • Similarity: Do elements that share a function share a visual treatment?
  • Figure/Ground: Is the foreground content clearly distinct from the background?
  • Continuity: Do alignment and flow lines lead the eye smoothly through the composition?
  • Closure: Are incomplete shapes or groups still perceived correctly?

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 9d ago First seen · 47 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A ab3f4b50153a

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critique-composition is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,619 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 632 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 2026-09-03.

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