critique-theater
Five-role Design Jury review that streams scored rounds, persists a replayable transcript, and ships through the daemon's Critique Theater protocol.
Profile →npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theater --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Critique Theater **Design Jury** is the user-facing name for Critique Theater. When the daemon enables it for an artifact-generating run, it appends the active protocol, brand source, thresholds, and weights to the agent prompt. The agent then plays the fixed v1 cast — Designer, Critic, Brand, Accessibility, and Copy — as turns inside the same CLI session. ## Runtime contract - Follow the daemon-injected tagged protocol exactly: one `<CRITIQUE_RUN>` envelope containing `<ROUND>`, `<PANELIST>`, and `<ROUND_END>` blocks and, only after a ship decision, one final `<SHIP>` block. Do not emit prose outside the envelope. - Designer drafts the artifact. Critic, Brand, Accessibility, and Copy score their own scopes and record actionable `<MUST_FIX>` items. The cast is fixed in v1; a plugin does not replace it with a custom list of axes. - The daemon parses the stream incrementally into typed `PanelEvent` variants and publishes them on `critique.*` SSE channels. It recomputes the composite from the scoring panelists, so an agent-supplied composite is advisory. - Do not write `critique.json` in the project cwd or emit a `kind: "critique-panel"` object. Those were the pre-orchestrator shape
- Runtime contract
- Convergence and persistence
- Interrupting a run
What does the critique-theater skill do?
Five-role Design Jury review that streams scored rounds, persists a replayable transcript, and ships through the daemon's Critique Theater protocol.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill critique-theater --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From nexu-io/open-design, a repository with 83,577 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.