design-critique SKILL.md skillA
design-critique from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/design-critique@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/design-critique/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 6,637 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Runs a structured design critique of a screen, flow, or component across three dimensions - jobs-to-be-done, clarity, and delight - and delivers a severity-ranked critique table with one prioritized recommendation. Use when someone asks "critique this design", "review this mockup before we build it", "this flow feels off but I can't say why", "which design debt matters", or a new design or redesign is up for review. Do NOT use for verifying a built implementation against its spec - use…
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
# Design Critique
A vague reaction ("I don't like it") wastes a design review; the team leaves with hurt feelings and no direction, then ships the same problems. A rigorous critique anchors every note to a dimension, a severity, and a concrete fix - so a designer or PM walks out knowing exactly what to change and in what order. This skill runs pre-build, on mockups and prototypes, where a fix costs minutes instead of sprints.
## When to use
- A new design or redesign is up for review.
- A flow feels "off" but no one can articulate why.
- You need to prioritize design debt against shipping goals.
## Inputs to collect
Gather three things first. If any is missing, ask for it before critiquing - a critique without them degenerates into taste.
1. The primary **job** the user is hiring this design to do. If the requester cannot state it in one sentence, help them draft one and label it a guess.
2. The **context** of use: device, urgency, frequency, emotional state. Default assumption if unknown: mobile, first-time, mildly impatient - the least forgiving case.
3. The **success metric** the team cares about. Default: task completion rate for the primary job.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/design-critique@sha256:99e9d33167f3eec8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_iyepl2junbb2q3s4)
1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 6,637 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 6,600 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 6,636 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6637 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_iyepl2junbb2q3s4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/design-critique GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/99e9d33167f3eec83bc1d8c1ce3c9ed5d0946fa1f1d5562dc86fe427369f3f41
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
More from skillmedev/skills
Every file in skillmedev/skills