designpowers-critique

designpowers-critique is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designpowers. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,405 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured design review method that checks whether a design meets its goals, serves its users, and reaches the expected quality standard.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing mockups, prototypes, or finished designs before handoff, after design work, or when a design decision is uncertain.
Why use it?
It helps replace vague opinions with specific feedback about accessibility, consistency, design intent, and user impact.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the designpowers plugin — 36 skills, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing mockups, prototypes, or finished designs before handoff, after design work, or when a design decision is uncertain.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designpowers/designpowers-critique
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 10 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,405 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
  • 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 $0.00063 $0.01405
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00702
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00140

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0b0291537b5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

designpowers-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 10d 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/designpowers-critique/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Critique

Critique is a structured evaluation of whether the design achieves what it set out to do, for the people it set out to serve — and whether it does so with the craft quality the project demands. This skill ensures review is rigorous, specific, and constructive. When a taste profile exists, critique includes aesthetic evaluation against that profile — not arbitrary personal preference, but the specific emotional target, craft standards, and quality bar the team agreed on.

When to Use

  • After completing a design task or set of tasks
  • Before handoff to engineering
  • When a design decision feels uncertain
  • At scheduled review points in a design plan

Process

Step 1: Gather Review Inputs

Before critiquing, assemble:

  • The design brief (from design-discovery)
  • The design plan (from writing-design-plans)
  • The design principles (from design-strategy)
  • The personas (from inclusive-personas)
  • The current design artefacts (mockups, code, prototypes)

Step 2: Evaluate Against Intent

For each design decision, ask:

  1. Does it solve the stated problem? Refer to the design brief
  2. Does it serve the identified personas? All of them, not just the primary user
  3. Does it follow the design principles? Specifically which principles it upholds or violates
  4. Does it align with the design system? If applicable

Step 3: Craft and Taste Evaluation

If a taste profile exists (from design-taste), evaluate the design against it:

Emotional target:

  • Does the design evoke the intended feeling? (Reference the taste profile's emotional target)
  • Would the user describe this experience with the words in the emotional target?

Craft standards:

  • Spacing has intentional rhythm — not just "correct," but considered
  • Colour usage follows the restraint/vibrancy rules in the taste profile
  • Shadows, borders, and radii use a consistent vocabulary
  • Typography choices serve both readability and personality
  • The overall composition feels cohesive — like one designer, not a committee

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. 10d ago First seen · 165 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 0b0291537b5e

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designpowers-critique is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designpowers (245 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,405 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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