New detections (browser-only, DOM-based):
- line-length: text wider than ~85 chars per line
- cramped-padding: <8px padding in bordered/bg containers (2+ borders)
- tight-leading: line-height < 1.3x on body text
- small-target: interactive elements < 44x44px
- skipped-heading: heading levels that skip (h1 then h3)
- justified-text: text-align: justify without hyphens: auto
- tiny-text: font-size < 12px on body text (>20 chars)
- all-caps-body: text-transform: uppercase on >30 chars of body text
- wide-tracking: letter-spacing > 0.05em on non-uppercase body text
Browser overlay improvements:
- Hover swaps label for detail tooltip (CSS-based, not JS events)
- Border goes transparent on hover to reveal element underneath
- Fixtures: quality-should-flag.html and quality-should-pass.html
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Detection improvements:
- Remove SAFE_TAGS from glow check (buttons/links with glows are valid)
- Add gradient color parsing (parseGradientColors) for AI palette
detection on gradient backgrounds including buttons
- Detect cyan neon text on dark backgrounds as AI palette
- Resolve gradient backgrounds as dark for glow detection
- Fix pure-black false positive on semi-transparent overlays (a >= 0.9)
- Skip low-contrast/gray-on-color when background is a gradient
- Fix "Only font:" double-colon in browser labels
Test performance:
- Split jsdom fixture tests to Node's test runner (bun + jsdom hangs
after ~13 instances due to resource leak)
- bun test for unit/regex/CLI tests (94 tests, 4s)
- node --test for jsdom fixtures (15 tests, 1.3s)
- Total: 109 tests in ~5s (was 280s+)
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New detections:
- bounce-easing: flags bounce/elastic animation names, animate-bounce
(Tailwind), and cubic-bezier curves with overshoot (y values outside
[0, 1])
- layout-transition: flags explicit transition of width, height, padding,
margin, and max-height/min-width variants; skips transition: all
- dark-glow: flags colored box-shadow with blur > 4px on dark backgrounds
(luminance < 0.1); skips gray shadows, focus rings (no blur), and
non-dark backgrounds
Includes 48 new tests across unit, regex, and jsdom fixture tests with
dedicated should-flag and should-pass HTML fixtures for both categories.
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The skill sync wipes .claude/skills/ and re-copies from dist, deleting
the generated browser script. Moved build-browser-detector.js to run
AFTER the sync. Dev server's /js/* route now falls through to
.claude/skills/critique/scripts/ for built artifacts. All fixture HTML
references use /js/detect-antipatterns-browser.js (clean URL).
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The generated browser detector now lives alongside the CLI script in
.claude/skills/critique/scripts/ — clearly a build artifact, not a
hand-maintained source file in public/js/.
- build-browser-detector.js outputs to .claude/ instead of public/js/
- Dev server serves .claude/skills/* for local testing
- All fixture and antipattern-example HTML files updated to new path
- Puppeteer detectUrl reads browser script from same directory
- Browser parity test server updated to serve from .claude/
- Deleted public/js/detect-antipatterns-browser.js
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four new layout detections:
- nested-cards: jsdom DOM walk finds card-like elements (shadow + rounded + bg)
nested inside other card-like elements. Excludes dropdowns (absolute/fixed),
form inputs, code blocks, badges (<20 chars), and known component classes.
- identical-card-grid: detects grid/flex parents with 3+ children sharing the
same structural fingerprint (icon + heading + paragraph template pattern).
- monotonous-spacing: regex on raw HTML collects padding/margin/gap values
(px, rem, Tailwind classes), rounds to nearest 4px, flags when >60% use
the same value with <=3 distinct values.
- everything-centered: regex counts text-align:center and Tailwind text-center
on text elements, flags when >70% of 5+ text elements are centered.
Also narrowed pure-black-white to only flag #000 as background color —
text-black, text-white, bg-white, and #fff are no longer flagged (too
common, per user feedback).
Extensive should-pass fixture covers: shadcn card sub-components, cards
with form inputs/dropdowns/code blocks/badges/accordions/tabs/images,
pricing cards, varied spacing, mixed centered/left-aligned layouts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Element-level (jsdom) and regex (--fast) detection for:
- bg-black, bg-white, text-black: pure black/white
- text-white without dark bg class: pure white on light
- text-gray-*/slate-*/zinc-* on bg-{color}-*: gray on colored bg
- text-purple-*/violet-*/indigo-* on headings/large text: AI palette
- from-purple-* to-indigo-*: purple gradient
- bg-clip-text + bg-gradient-to-*: gradient text (already existed)
text-white is NOT flagged when paired with a dark bg class (bg-black,
bg-gray-700+, bg-blue-500+, etc.) since that's intentional contrast.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five new detections:
- pure-black-white: flags #000/#fff in styles via regex (jsdom bg
resolution unreliable for this)
- gray-on-color: gray text (low chroma, mid luminance) on colored
backgrounds via getComputedStyle + ancestor bg walk
- low-contrast: WCAG AA violation (4.5:1 body, 3:1 large text) via
computed contrast ratio with resolved effective background
- gradient-text: background-clip:text + gradient combo via regex
(jsdom doesn't compute background-clip)
- ai-color-palette: conservative purple/violet accent detection via
regex on known hex values in prominent contexts
Background resolution handles jsdom limitation where background
shorthand isn't decomposed — falls back to parsing raw style attribute
for hex colors.
Color fixtures added for both should-flag (all 5 types) and
should-pass (tinted neutrals, good contrast, non-purple accents).
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Page-level typography checks (flat hierarchy, single font, overused font)
now only run on files that look like full pages (have <!DOCTYPE, <html>,
or <head> tags). Partials and components still get element-level border
checks.
isFullPage() strips HTML comments before checking to avoid false matches
on prose that mentions tag names.
Added partial-component.html fixture that has Inter, flat sizes, and a
side-tab border — verifies only the border is flagged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Architecture simplified to two paths:
- HTML files: jsdom with getComputedStyle (resolves linked CSS, cascade)
- Non-HTML files: regex fallback (CSS, JSX, TSX, etc.)
- URLs: Puppeteer (unchanged)
- --fast flag forces regex-only for all files
Removed --deep flag (jsdom is now the default). Removed static mode
from browser script (always uses getComputedStyle — it's in a real
browser). Anti-pattern definitions split into:
- checkElementBorders() — shared element-level computed style checker
- checkPageTypography() — shared page-level checker
- REGEX_MATCHERS/REGEX_ANALYZERS — regex fallback for non-HTML
Browser script simplified from 470 lines to 250. CLI script reduced
from 810 lines to 440. Detection logic is now single-source for
jsdom/puppeteer/browser.
Fixtures now served via /fixtures/* route in dev server for proper
CORS handling of linked stylesheets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three new detections:
- overused-font: flags Inter, Roboto, Open Sans, Lato, Montserrat, Arial
as primary font-family or via Google Fonts imports
- single-font: file-level analyzer flags pages using only one non-generic
font family (needs pairing for typographic hierarchy)
- flat-type-hierarchy: file-level analyzer collects all font-size values
(px, rem, Tailwind text-* classes, clamp min/max) and flags when the
max/min ratio is below 2.0
Detection engine extended to support file-level analyzers alongside
line-level matchers. Typography fixtures added for both should-flag
and should-pass cases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Anti-pattern detector script (source/skills/critique/scripts/detect-antipatterns.mjs):
CLI tool that scans files/dirs for UI anti-patterns via regex. Detects side-tab
accent borders and border-accent-on-rounded patterns across Tailwind, CSS, JSX.
Context-aware: skips safe elements (blockquotes, nav, inputs, code), neutral
colors, and adjusts thresholds based on border-radius co-occurrence.
- Browser visualizer (public/js/detect-antipatterns-browser.js):
Drop-in script that highlights anti-patterns directly in the browser with
labeled overlays. Two modes: "static" (regex, matches CLI) and "computed"
(getComputedStyle, catches CSS cascade). Scans both inline styles and
<style> blocks.
- Gallery of Shame (public/gallery.html):
Standalone page showcasing 11 AI anti-pattern examples with thumbnails
and links. Anti-pattern example pages updated from 1080x1080 Twitter
format to responsive layouts, labels removed, screenshots retaken at 16:10.
- Critique skill updated to run detector before manual review.
- Build system: skills now support scripts/ directories alongside reference/.
All 8 provider transformers refactored to use shared.js (DRY).
- 58 new tests covering detection logic, fixtures, CLI integration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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