plan-design-review
Senior Designer review: rates each design dimension 0-10, explains what a 10 looks like, and flags AI Slop signals. Useful as a gate before merging UI work.
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About plan-design-review
Plan Design Review is a thin catalogue entry advertising a "Senior Designer" review skill curated from Garry Tan's gstack project. Its stated purpose is to act as a design-quality gate: it rates each design dimension on a 0-10 scale, explains what a perfect 10 would look like for that dimension, and flags "AI Slop" signals, making it useful as a checkpoint before merging UI work. It is triggered by phrases such as "plan design review", "senior designer review", "design rating", or "ai slop check".
As shipped here, the entry is honest about being a pointer rather than a full implementation. The SKILL.md explains that this catalogue entry exists so an Open Design agent discovers the skill during planning, and that to run the full upstream workflow with its original assets, scripts, and references, the user must install the upstream bundle from the linked GitHub repository into their active agent's skills directory. The only shell guidance is an 'open' command to inspect the upstream README.
The intended users are designers, product teams, and engineers who want an opinionated, rubric-style design critique before shipping UI. Because the actual review logic lives upstream, the practical value of this entry is discovery and routing; the reviewing behavior comes from installing the referenced gstack project.
FAQ
What does the review produce?
Per its description, a rating of each design dimension from 0 to 10, an explanation of what a 10 looks like for each dimension, and flags for 'AI Slop' signals.
Is the full skill included here?
No. This is a catalogue entry pointing to the upstream project (github.com/garrytan/gstack). Install the upstream bundle to get the actual assets, scripts, and workflow.
When should I use it?
As a quality gate before merging or shipping UI work, to catch weak or generic 'AI slop' design before it lands.
How do I invoke it?
After installing the upstream skill, call it by name (plan-design-review) or use a trigger phrase such as 'senior designer review' or 'ai slop check'.
Install plan-design-review
Quick Setup:
- Copy the skill folder to
.claude/skills/ - Claude will automatically detect and use the skill
Repository
nexu-io/open-design