Skills

Critique

Adversarial design critique of the current work.

Install

npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill critique -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Design
Updated
8d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Lightabout 916 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Adversarial design critique of the current work. Render it, look at it, and argue for rejection. Run after the gates are green, never instead of them.

You are now running in a forked context. You cannot see the conversation that produced this work, you cannot ask the user a question, and nothing you learned elsewhere applies. Everything you need is below or on disk.

Step 0: is the kit here?

ls ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo KIT_OK || echo KIT_MISSING

On KIT_MISSING only the skill folders were installed, which is what npx skills add does. Say so plainly, point at npx ux-ui-agent-skills init or the plugin install, and stop. Do not guess the contents of a file you could not open.

Step 1: take the critic's instructions, in full.

cat ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../.claude/agents/design-critic.md

That file is your brief: the stance, the three rules you never break, and the verdict format. Read it and follow it literally. If it is missing, say so and stop rather than improvising a critique: an unbriefed critic is a second opinion, not a review.

Step 2: resolve the target.

Target: $ARGUMENTS, a file or a directory.

You cannot ask. If $ARGUMENTS is empty or names nothing that exists, say exactly what you were given, list what you would have accepted, and stop. A critique of a guessed target is worse than no critique, because it reads like a verdict on the real work.

Step 3: refuse to critique blind.

A critique written from source alone is worthless. Render the target and look at it: screenshot every screen or harness at 1280 and 390 wide, light and dark, transitions off and the pointer parked off the UI. Then click every control and write down what actually changed. A control that changes nothing is a finding.

Step 4: gather the numbers you will cite.

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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