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design-critique

Get structured design feedback on usability, hierarchy, and consistency. Trigger with "review this design", "critique this mockup", "what do you think of this screen?", or when sharing a Figma link or screenshot for feedback at any stage from exploration to final polish.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

67%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured, largely actionable single-file skill: the critique framework and output template are concrete and copy-paste ready, and the input handling is unambiguous. The main weaknesses are two padded/redundant sections and small definition gaps (severity criteria, no worked example), plus a dangling external CONNECTORS.md reference.

Suggestions

Cut or merge the 'How to Give Feedback' and 'Tips' sections — the feedback-quality rules and the context/stage/focus reminders each appear twice, and 'Be specific' / 'Suggest alternatives' are things Claude already knows.

Define the severity scale (what makes a finding 🔴 Critical vs 🟡 Moderate vs 🟢 Minor) so the output template's severity column has assignment criteria, ideally with one worked example of a filled critique.

Fix or remove the [CONNECTORS.md](../../CONNECTORS.md) reference: it points outside the skill bundle and does not resolve, so either inline the connector-discovery note or make the path valid from the skill's install location.

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Conciseness

The critique framework and output template are efficient and earn their tokens, but two sections pad the body: "How to Give Feedback" restates feedback basics Claude already knows ("Be specific", "Suggest alternatives", "Acknowledge what works"), and "Tips" largely duplicates "What I Need From You" (context, stage, focus). That is more than the minor over-explanation of a 4, but there are no concept tutorials, so it is not a 2.

3 / 5

Actionability

For an instruction-only skill the guidance is mostly executable: an explicit input-resolution conditional ("If a Figma URL is provided, pull the design from Figma... Otherwise, ask"), a copy-paste output template with tables and severity markers, and a concrete good/bad feedback contrast ("The CTA competes with the navigation" not "the layout is confusing"). Minor gaps keep it from a 5: the severity levels (🔴 Critical / 🟡 Moderate / 🟢 Minor) are never defined and there is no worked example of a filled output template.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The flow is coherent and unambiguous — resolve the input (Figma/file/description), apply the five-part framework, emit the structured output — with the input conditional acting as a checkpoint, and no destructive or batch operations require validation. It falls short of a 5 because the sequence is implied by section order rather than explicitly sequenced, and severity assignment has no criteria to check against.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is a single self-contained file with clear section headers, and at this size nothing obviously belongs in a separate bundle file. However, the only external reference — [CONNECTORS.md](../../CONNECTORS.md) — points outside the skill bundle and does not resolve, which is a minor navigation gap against the well-signaled, one-level-deep anchor of a 5.

4 / 5

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Description

87%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: it states what the skill does across three concrete critique dimensions, gives explicit natural-language trigger phrases and input types, and defines when to use it including stage context. The only shortfalls are minor — a slightly generic action verb and a few missing UI/UX keyword variations.

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Specificity

"Get structured design feedback on usability, hierarchy, and consistency" names the domain plus three concrete critique dimensions and the input modalities ("Figma link or screenshot"), which sits noticeably above the 1-2-action anchor. It is not a 5 because the capability rests on a single generic verb ("get feedback") with no list of concrete actions, and accessibility — covered in the body — is absent from the description.

4 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both questions: what ("Get structured design feedback on usability, hierarchy, and consistency") and when ("Trigger with... or when sharing a Figma link or screenshot for feedback at any stage from exploration to final polish") with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor exactly. The voice is third-person imperative, so no voice penalty applies.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural quoted phrases users would actually say — "review this design", "critique this mockup", "what do you think of this screen?" — plus synonyms (design/mockup/screen) and input types (Figma link, screenshot) give good coverage. Not a 5 because common variations like "UI", "UX", "layout", or "give feedback on this flow" are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"Structured design feedback" on mockups/Figma designs with mockup- and screen-specific triggers is a clear niche with minimal conflict risk against adjacent skills (e.g., PR review or datavis creation). It fits the clear-niche anchor better than the minor-overlap anchor.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Validation

87%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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relative_links

Relative link issues: 1 suspicious

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

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