Design vs Testing · both proven

canvas-design vs systematic-debugging

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.

canvas-design

Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.

Category: Design
Source: anthropics/skills · 182,147 stars
License: Not stated
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Build the one-page site for Blue Hour, a monthly jazz night at a small club: a poster-style hero with a drawn inline SVG illustration, the lineup with short bios, the schedule, a photo-strip section drawn with SVG, ticket tiers, and a footer with the address. Make it feel like a printed poster brought to the web, with motion.”
Skill commit: dbd4588

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes

Category: Testing
Source: obra/superpowers · 301,947 stars
License: MIT
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “A Node.js API returns 500 for about 1 in 200 requests to POST /orders. Logs show 'TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading "id")' at orders.js:48, which reads req.user.id. The route is behind an auth middleware. The failures started after a deploy that added a 30-second cache on the session lookup. Present your diagnosis and fix as a single HTML page: what you checked, in order, the root cause, the code change, and how you would confirm it is fixed.”
Skill commit: bb92a77

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 canvas-design or alternatives to systematic-debugging.