Agent skill

Design Critique

by Owl-Listener in Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Facilitate a structured team critique — framing, feedback rules, and actionable outcomes.

MITAuto-check passedMedia & Creative

Install Design Critique

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-critique -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills design-critique --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/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-ops/skills/design-critique .claude/skills/design-critique && 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/

Facts

Skill name
design-critique
GitHub stars
2.9k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~513 tokens
SKILL.md length
235 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
107
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Facilitate a structured team critique — framing, feedback rules, and actionable outcomes.

  • Works in 5 steps: Present (5 min) — Designer walks through… → Clarify (5 min) — Questions to… → Feedback rounds — Structured by category… → …
  • Running a session with people in the room
  • SKILL.md covers What You Do, Critique Framework, Critique Types and Common Pitfalls, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Design Critique is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Facilitate a structured team critique — framing, feedback rules, and actionable outcomes. Use when running a session with people in the room. For a solo expert review, use heuristic-evaluation (prototyping-testing).

Its SKILL.md is about 510 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Media & Creative, covering Design review and critique, UX design and Prototyping. The repository describes itself as: Designer Skills Collection: agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design — from research to systems, UI, interaction, and delivery. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Running a session with people in the room
  • Tasks that involve Design review and critique
  • Tasks that involve UX design

Example prompts

  • “/design-critique”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  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

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a6930c. 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

Design Critique loads about 513 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 235 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~58
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~513

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills at commit 9a6930c, republished under its MIT licence (© Owl-Listener). 235 words, ~513 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/design-critique/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
design-critique
description
Facilitate a structured team critique — framing, feedback rules, and actionable outcomes. Use when running a session with people in the room. For a solo expert review, use `heuristic-evaluation` (prototyping-testing).

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

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Files

Just SKILL.md in design-ops/skills/design-critique of Owl-Listener/designer-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a6930c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Design Critique

What does Design Critique do?

Facilitate a structured team critique — framing, feedback rules, and actionable outcomes. Design Critique is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Facilitate a structured team critique — framing, feedback rules, and actionable outcomes.

When should I use Design Critique?

Design Critique fits situations like: running a session with people in the room; tasks that involve Design review and critique; tasks that involve UX design.

How do I install Design Critique in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-critique -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (design-ops/skills/design-critique in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .claude/skills/design-critique in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Design Critique in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-critique -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (design-ops/skills/design-critique in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .agents/skills/design-critique in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Design Critique 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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-critique -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/design-critique, .gemini/skills/design-critique, .github/skills/design-critique and .opencode/skills/design-critique in your project.

What does Design Critique need to run?

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

Does Design Critique 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 Design Critique 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 Design Critique use?

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

How many tokens does Design Critique use?

About 513 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.1k 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 Design Critique?

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Who maintains Design Critique?

Owl-Listener (a GitHub user) maintains it in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which has 2,871 GitHub stars. The repository holds 107 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 5, 2026.

Source: Owl-Listener/designer-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.