Agent skill

Critique Theater

Five-dimension design quality review — score the artifact against craft, brand, accessibility, and copy, then fix what falls short before handing it over.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Critique Theater

skills CLI

$ npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theater -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install nexu-io/open-design critique-theater --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater .claude/skills/critique-theater && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "critique-theater" agent skill from https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/tree/main/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater into .claude/skills/critique-theater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critique-theater", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/tree/main/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theater -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install nexu-io/open-design critique-theater --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater .agents/skills/critique-theater && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "critique-theater" agent skill from https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/tree/main/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater into .agents/skills/critique-theater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critique-theater", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theater -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install nexu-io/open-design critique-theater --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater .cursor/skills/critique-theater && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "critique-theater" agent skill from https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/tree/main/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater into .cursor/skills/critique-theater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critique-theater", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git --path plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theater -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install nexu-io/open-design critique-theater --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater .gemini/skills/critique-theater && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "critique-theater" agent skill from https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/tree/main/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater into .gemini/skills/critique-theater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critique-theater", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install nexu-io/open-design critique-theater

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theater -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater .github/skills/critique-theater && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "critique-theater" agent skill from https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/tree/main/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater into .github/skills/critique-theater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critique-theater", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theater -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install nexu-io/open-design critique-theater --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater .opencode/skills/critique-theater && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "critique-theater" agent skill from https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/tree/main/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater into .opencode/skills/critique-theater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critique-theater", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: critique-theater
GitHub stars: 100k
Token cost: ~640 tokens
SKILL.md length: 363 words
Files: 2
Skills in repo: 245
Repo updated: Oct 10, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: Apache-2.0

At a glance

Five-dimension design quality review — score the artifact against craft, brand, accessibility, and copy, then fix what falls short before handing it over.

Tasks that involve Design review and critique
SKILL.md covers The five dimensions, What to do with the findings and How to report it
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
Tasks that involve Accessibility

What it does

Critique Theater is an agent skill from nexu-io/open-design. Five-dimension design quality review — score the artifact against craft, brand, accessibility, and copy, then fix what falls short before handing it over.

Its SKILL.md is about 640 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `open-design.json`).

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering Design review and critique and Accessibility. The repository describes itself as: 🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes… The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

Tasks that involve Design review and critique
Tasks that involve Accessibility

Example prompts

“/critique-theater”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 17e2559. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Critique Theater loads about 640 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 43 tokens; SKILL.md has 363 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~43
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~640

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from nexu-io/open-design at commit 17e2559, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© nexu-io). 363 words, ~640 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/critique-theater/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.

name: critique-theater
description: Five-dimension design quality review — score the artifact against craft, brand, accessibility, and copy, then fix what falls short before handing it over.
od.scenario: general
od.mode: critique

Design review

Before you hand an artifact over, review it against five dimensions and fix what falls short. This is a quality bar, not a performance: do the review, apply the fixes, and describe the outcome in ordinary prose.

The five dimensions

Judge the artifact you just produced from five angles. Each one owns its own scope; do not let a strength in one excuse a failure in another.

Craft — layout, hierarchy, spacing, alignment, and visual rhythm. Does it read as deliberate work rather than a template with the words swapped out?
Critique — does it actually solve the user's stated problem? Look for the weakest claim, the thinnest section, the thing a sceptical reviewer would attack first.
Brand — does it follow the active design system's tokens, typography, and voice? A brand violation is a defect even when the result looks pleasant.
Accessibility — contrast ratios, touch-target sizes, focus rings, labels on interactive controls and dialogs, keyboard reachability, sensible heading order.
Copy — is the text specific, readable, and free of filler? Placeholder phrasing and marketing padding both count as defects.

Show full SKILL.md (185 more words)Show less

What to do with the findings

Record each concrete defect and fix it in the same turn. A finding you cannot fix is worth stating plainly, with the reason, so the user can decide.

Keep iterating while defects remain and you still have room to work. Stop when the artifact clears all five dimensions, or when further rounds stop producing real improvements — whichever comes first. Three passes is a sensible ceiling.

OD_MAX_DEVLOOP_ITERATIONS caps the outer plugin pipeline stage; it is not this review's round limit. A pipeline's critique.score signal is a scheduler-facing projection, not something you should write into your answer.

How to report it

Write the outcome the way you would write any other part of your answer: plain prose, in the user's language, saying what you checked, what you fixed, and anything you deliberately left alone.

Do not invent a structured review transcript, a scored panel, a cast of named reviewer personas, or any tag-based envelope around your answer. Do not write a critique.json file into the project. None of those are inputs to anything — they only add noise to the user's chat.

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater of nexu-io/open-design.

SKILL.md
open-design.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 17e2559

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Questions about Critique Theater

What does Critique Theater do?

Five-dimension design quality review — score the artifact against craft, brand, accessibility, and copy, then fix what falls short before handing it over. Critique Theater is an agent skill from nexu-io/open-design. Five-dimension design quality review — score the artifact against craft, brand, accessibility, and copy, then fix what falls short before handing it over.

When should I use Critique Theater?

Critique Theater fits situations like: tasks that involve Design review and critique; tasks that involve Accessibility.

How do I install Critique Theater in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theater -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater in nexu-io/open-design) into .claude/skills/critique-theater in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Critique Theater in Codex?

Run `npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theater -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater in nexu-io/open-design) into .agents/skills/critique-theater in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Critique Theater in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theater -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/critique-theater, .gemini/skills/critique-theater, .github/skills/critique-theater and .opencode/skills/critique-theater in your project.

What does Critique Theater need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Critique Theater is instructions for the agent only.

Does Critique Theater access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Critique Theater safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Critique Theater use?

Critique Theater is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Critique Theater use?

About 640 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Critique Theater?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Critique Theater: Design Audit (AThevon/genjutsu, 440 stars), Design Review (Owl-Listener/designpowers, 251 stars), Designpowers Critique (Owl-Listener/designpowers, 251 stars) and Design Flow (Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills, 105 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Critique Theater?

nexu-io (a GitHub organization) maintains it in nexu-io/open-design, which has 100,280 GitHub stars. The repository holds 245 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: nexu-io/open-design on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Critique Theater

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Design review

The five dimensions

What to do with the findings

How to report it

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

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Questions about Critique Theater