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design-critique from paperclipai/paperclip is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add paperclipai/paperclip/design-critique@git:20260528.9eac727

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
paperclipai/paperclip
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packages/skills-catalog/catalog/optional/product/design-critique/SKILL.md
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MIT

Give a structured product design critique — user job clarity, hierarchy, affordance, error states, accessibility, and consistency — focused on what to change, in what order, and why.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Product Design Critique

A structured critique pass for a screen, flow, or component. The output is a prioritized list of changes a designer or engineer can act on — not adjectives. Critique is not redesign; recommend, do not rebuild.

## When to use

- A designer or engineer asks for feedback on a screen, mock, or live UI.
- A feature is shipping and someone wants a final UX read.
- A flow is suspected of causing user drop-off and you want a pre-research read before instrumentation.

## When not to use

- The user wants a redesign. That is a design project, not a critique.
- The work is so early that no concrete artifact exists. Sketch with them instead of critiquing air.
- You have no context on the user job. Ask for it first; design critique without user context devolves into taste.

## Pre-critique context

Before opening a screen, get:

- **Who is the user.** Specific role and competence, not "users".
- **What job they are doing on this screen.** One sentence.
- **What success looks like.** What the user can do after this screen that they could not before.
- **Where this screen sits in the larger flow.** What precedes and follows.
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add paperclipai/paperclip/design-critique@sha256:022e619baf6cc257

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Source

GitHub

paperclipai/paperclip · 105,684 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7oe4zspt3a4xqaok
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=paperclipai/paperclip/design-critique
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/022e619baf6cc25725946279cb8052d22af090dd6cd6dc8c20f17867f71a5d8e

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