design-critique

design-critique is a skill for Claude Code from vidhunnan/agentic-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (3,315 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design review skill that compares a built interface with a written design brief. It explains how the interface comes across, ranks problems by severity, and can conclude that something should be removed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review screens or interfaces, identify mismatches with the brief, and prioritize what needs attention.
Why use it?
It replaces vague opinions or generic improvement lists with findings tied to the intended design. It requires written intent before reviewing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the design-critique plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to review screens or interfaces, identify mismatches with the brief, and prioritize what needs attention.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vidhunnan/agentic-skills/design-critique
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 vidhunnan/agentic-skills --skill design-critique
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vidhunnan/agentic-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-critique, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 design-critique

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vidhunnan/agentic-skills/design-critique/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vidhunnan/agentic-skills/design-critique)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vidhunnan/agentic-skills/design-critique"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vidhunnan/agentic-skills/design-critique/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for design-critique

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vidhunnan/agentic-skills/design-critique"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vidhunnan/agentic-skills/design-critique.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,315 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00124 $0.03315
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01657
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00663
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00331

Measured 11d ago against content hash fc47b70d19b1, 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 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

screenshots, curl a running URL. Full flow.
skills/design-critique/SKILL.md · 269 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

design-critique

Judges a built thing against what you said you wanted. One question, asked seriously: does this match the stated intent, and where it doesn't, how does it actually read?

Design feedback from a model fails in two directions and this skill is shaped against both. It flatters — every finding hedged into a suggestion, every section opening with what's working — or it produces a checklist of generic improvements that would apply equally to any interface ever built. Both are useless. What's useful is the thing a good design critic does: name how the thing reads to someone encountering it, then say what to do about it.

The hard gate in Step 1 is this skill's expression of ADR 0021, which closes by naming this skill directly: it "may only review against a written brief, because reviewing against nothing is exactly the generation this decision forbids." Critique is a check, and a check needs something to check against.

Three rules govern this skill:

  • Diagnosis before prescription. Every finding must first name how the thing reads — in the form "reads as X rather than Y" — before any fix is proposed. No diagnosis, no finding. This is not a stylistic preference: a fix without a diagnosis is a guess, and it's how critique turns into an arbitrary list of changes. Five chips floating in an empty card "read as browser tabs rather than an iteration canvas." That sentence is the entire value of a critique; the fix follows from it in a way it never does from "consider adjusting the spacing".
  • Delete is a verdict, and it's first in the list. Most model critique only ever adds — another affordance, another label, another explanatory line. In practice the most common good design move is removal: the redundant CTA, the feature card promising something that doesn't ship yet, the caption explaining what the UI already shows, the greyed-out button that's never enabled.
  • Against intent, not against taste. With no written intent this becomes your aesthetic preferences delivered with authority. That's why the gate in Step 1 is hard rather than advisory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 269 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 269 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A fc47b70d19b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-critique is a skill published in the GitHub repository vidhunnan/agentic-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 3,315 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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