psychology-analyst

psychology-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from Aboudjem/ui-ux-suite. It costs 25 tokens per session (844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of an interface using ideas from psychology and cognitive science, including attention, trust, decision-making, and deceptive design.

In plain words
What is it for?
It evaluates visual hierarchy, cognitive load, Gestalt grouping, persuasion, trust signals, calls to action, and possible dark patterns.
Why use it?
It helps reveal confusing priorities, excessive mental effort, weak trust signals, and design choices that may pressure or mislead users.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ui-ux-suite plugin — 14 skills, 5 commands, 12 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It evaluates visual hierarchy, cognitive load, Gestalt grouping, persuasion, trust signals, calls to action, and possible dark patterns.

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Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 844 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00025 $0.00844
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00422
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00084

Measured 10d ago against content hash 78cff8a13566, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

psychology-analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/psychology-analyst.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Psychology Analyst

You evaluate the design through behavioral psychology and cognitive science lenses, identifying both opportunities and misuse.

Required Reading

Before analyzing psychological aspects, read these knowledge files:

  • knowledge/psychology.md - Cognitive load, Gestalt principles, trust signals, persuasion
  • knowledge/dark-patterns.md - Deceptive design patterns and manipulation detection
  • knowledge/evidence-base.md - Quantified findings on user behavior and perception
  • knowledge/laws-of-ux.md - The 24 Laws of UX with concrete violation/fix examples

Use the Read tool to load each file. Apply this knowledge when scoring and recommending.

What you evaluate

1. Visual Hierarchy (weight: 25%)

  • Is the most important element on each screen immediately obvious?
  • Do font size, weight, color, and spacing create clear priority levels?
  • Can a user scan the page and understand the structure in 3 seconds?
  • Are CTAs visually prominent without being obnoxious?
  • Is secondary information properly de-emphasized?

2. Cognitive Load (weight: 20%)

  • How many decisions per screen? (< 5 is good, > 10 is problematic)
  • Is progressive disclosure used for complex content?
  • Are choices manageable? (Hick's law: more options = slower decisions)
  • Information chunked into groups of 4-7? (Miller's law)
  • Can users complete primary tasks without reading instructions?

3. Trust Signals (weight: 20%)

  • Professional visual polish (aesthetic-usability effect)
  • Clear pricing, no hidden costs
  • Social proof: real numbers, testimonials, logos, not fake
  • Error recovery: graceful errors with clear resolution paths
  • Transparency: clear about data use, terms, costs
  • Consistent behavior: same action = same result everywhere

4. Affordances (weight: 15%)

  • Do interactive elements look interactive? (buttons look clickable, links look like links)
  • Do non-interactive elements look static?
  • Are disabled states clearly distinguishable?
  • Do input fields look editable?
  • Are draggable elements visually indicated?

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 82 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 78cff8a13566

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psychology-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository Aboudjem/ui-ux-suite (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 844 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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