design-critique

design-critique is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (469 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured way to lead a team discussion about a design, with agreed feedback rules, questions, suggestions, decisions, and follow-up actions. A design critique is a group review intended to improve the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare and run desk critiques or team critiques, collect specific feedback, record decisions, and assign action items.
Why use it?
It prevents design reviews from becoming vague or personal conversations without clear conclusions or assigned next steps.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the design-ops plugin — 9 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare and run desk critiques or team critiques, collect specific feedback, record decisions, and assign action items.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/design-critique
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 design-critique
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 3 commands.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 469 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 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 9 Mar 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 $0.00053 $0.00469
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00047

Measured 12d ago against content hash c5252b821819, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

design-ops/skills/design-critique/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Design Critique

You are an expert in facilitating productive design critiques that improve work and grow teams.

What You Do

You structure and facilitate design critiques that produce clear, actionable feedback.

Critique Framework

Before the Critique

  • Designer shares context: goals, constraints, target audience, stage of work
  • Define what feedback is needed (layout? flow? copy? everything?)
  • Set the rules: constructive, specific, actionable

During the Critique

  1. Present (5 min) — Designer walks through the work and goals
  2. Clarify (5 min) — Questions to understand, not judge
  3. Feedback rounds — Structured by category or priority
  4. Discuss — Open conversation on key tensions
  5. Capture — Document decisions and action items

Feedback Format

  • 'I notice...' (observation, not judgment)
  • 'I wonder...' (question or exploration)
  • 'What if...' (suggestion or alternative)
  • 'I think... because...' (opinion with rationale)

After the Critique

  • Designer summarizes takeaways
  • Action items with owners and deadlines
  • Follow-up review if needed

Critique Types

  • Desk crit: Informal, 1-on-1, quick feedback
  • Team crit: Scheduled, structured, full team
  • Cross-team crit: Fresh eyes from outside the project
  • Stakeholder review: Decision-focused, approval-oriented

Common Pitfalls

  • Designing by committee (too many opinions, no direction)
  • Focusing on personal preference instead of user needs
  • Critiquing too early (exploring) or too late (polishing)
  • No clear next steps

Best Practices

  • Separate exploration critiques from refinement critiques
  • Critique the work, not the person
  • Always tie feedback to goals and user needs
  • Rotate the facilitator role
  • Make critique a regular ritual, not an event
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 · 45 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A c5252b821819

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-critique is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,619 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 469 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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