Design vs Automation · both proven

banner-design vs triage

Both skills were run through Claude twice: once on a fixed brief without the skill, once with it. The briefs differ because each is written for the job the skill claims to do, so compare each skill against its own baseline, then decide which difference matters for your work. They are in different categories, so this is a choice of job, not a head-to-head on the same job.

banner-design

Design banners for social media, ads, website heroes, creative assets, and print. Multiple art direction options with optional generated or supplied visuals. Actions: design, create, generate banner. Platforms: Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Google Display, website hero, print. Styles: minimalist, gradient, bold typography, photo-based, illustrated, geometric, retro…

Category: Design
Source: nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill
License: MIT
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Design a set of launch banners for Brightline Coffee's new cold brew cans, as one HTML page showing each banner at its real size: a 1200x628 social ad, a 1080x1080 square post, a 728x90 leaderboard, and a 1600x500 website hero. Price $3.50 a can, in stores June 1.”
Skill commit: bf41cbc

Without the skillWith banner-design

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Without, runWith banner-design, run3 independent runs per side, none selected by hand.

Download the with-skill page

triage

Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.

Category: Automation
Source: mattpocock/skills
License: MIT
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “You are triaging three new issues on an open-source Markdown editor. #412 "App crashes" by @kmorr: "It crashes when I paste stuff. Please fix asap." #413 "Export to PDF loses images" by @dlee: "On v2.3.1 (macOS 15), exporting a note with two PNG images to PDF produces a PDF with blank boxes where the images were. Steps: create note, drag in two PNGs, File > Export > PDF. Expected images in the PDF. Worked in v2.2.0." #414 "Add vim keybindings" by @tpz: "Would love vim mode. Lots of editors have it." Present the triage as a single HTML page: for each issue, the category, the state you would move it to and why, the comment you would post, and for any issue ready for an agent to implement, the agent brief.”
Skill commit: 5beb35b

Without the skillWith triage

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Without, runWith triage, run3 independent runs per side, none selected by hand.

Download the with-skill page

We don’t pick a winner for you: the pages are the evidence. Both proofs can be repeated with the brief, model and commit shown above. See alternatives to banner-design or alternatives to triage.