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…