critique-theater
Performs a five-dimensional design quality review. It helps identify and fix flaws in design artifacts before delivery.
What it does
This tool reviews creative work (like text or design) across five key areas: overall quality (Craft), problem-solving effectiveness (Critique), brand consistency (Brand), accessibility for all (Accessibility), and text quality (Copy). It then suggests and applies fixes.
When to use it
- ✓Before submitting a final piece of work.
- ✓When you want to ensure text or design is strong in all aspects.
- ✓If you received feedback and need to improve a work.
Example of what to ask your AI
“Review this text about the history of Brazil, focusing on clarity, correctness, and whether it truly explains the colonial period.”
Want more? Open the sections below.
How to use
The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.
Skill link
Ready-to-paste message
How it works
The AI analyzes your work by comparing it against five criteria: appearance, relevance, brand identity, accessibility, and text. It identifies issues in each area and suggests or makes necessary corrections.
Installation
Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.
In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:
npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theaterOr download just the file:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nexu-io/open-design/main/plugins/_official/atoms/critique-theater/SKILL.md -o SKILL.mdTechnical content (original SKILL.md)
Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.
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.
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.
FAQ
What are the 'five dimensions'?
These are the five aspects the AI evaluates: Craft (visual/technical quality), Critique (if it solves the problem), Brand (visual identity/brand), Accessibility (usability for everyone), and Copy (text quality).
Will the AI fix everything by itself?
The AI will identify problems and suggest fixes. Some fixes it can make directly, while others might need your approval or further work from you.
Do I need to know about design to use this?
No. The tool is designed to be used even without technical knowledge, focusing on improving the quality of your work.
Details
Original description by the author
Five-dimension design quality review — score the artifact against craft, brand, accessibility, and copy, then fix what falls short before handing it over.
repo: nexu-io/open-design
Popularity
- GitHub stars
- 101k
- Ranking position
- #520
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Updated
- 10/16/2026
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