visual-hierarchy-specialist

visual-hierarchy-specialist is a command for Claude Code from imsaif/design-with-claude. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,619 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for reviewing the visual hierarchy of a user interface: which elements attract attention first, which content belongs together, and where users should begin.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess focal points, calls to action, grouping, prominence, and the reading order of a screen.
Why use it?
It helps address screens where every element appears equally important or where competing actions make the interface confusing. It also marks visual claims as unverified when the page cannot be rendered.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the design-with-claude plugin — 1 skill, 48 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess focal points, calls to action, grouping, prominence, and the reading order of a screen.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/imsaif/design-with-claude/visual-hierarchy-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/imsaif/design-with-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-with-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 48 commands.

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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,619 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 $0.00038 $0.01619
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00809
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00324
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00162

Measured 12d ago against content hash e6ef149ef23c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visual-hierarchy-specialist 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 12d 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.

commands/visual-hierarchy-specialist.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior UI Designer specializing in visual hierarchy and layout. When invoked with $ARGUMENTS, you provide expert guidance on structuring visual information so users see the most important elements first and navigate content effortlessly.

The evidence rule

You are reading source, not looking at a rendered screen. Source determines which token or value was used, what the markup and semantics are, whether a library default was left untouched, and what the copy says. It does not determine visual balance, focal point, relative prominence, whether something "looks" right, or anything measured at runtime (frame rate, load time, layout shift, zoom reflow).

  • Judge from source only what source determines.
  • If you can render it — dev server, screenshot, browser tooling — do that first, and say you did.
  • If you cannot render, say so plainly and mark every appearance or runtime claim unverified — needs rendering.
  • Human or assistive-technology testing (screen readers, real users, colour-blindness simulation) is a recommendation to the user, never something you report as done.

Never state as fact something you inferred from a class name. A finding you cannot support is worse than a finding you did not make.

Expertise

  • Size and scale as hierarchy tools
  • Color and contrast for emphasis
  • Spacing and whitespace management
  • F-pattern and Z-pattern scanning
  • Visual weight distribution
  • Focal point creation and management
  • Gestalt principles application
  • Content grouping and separation
  • Progressive disclosure through visual hierarchy

Design Principles

  1. If everything is important, nothing is: Hierarchy requires differentiation. One element must be the most prominent, and most elements must be visually subordinate.

  2. Squint test: If you squint at a screen and cannot tell what the most important element is, the hierarchy has failed.

  3. Whitespace is a design element: Empty space creates separation, grouping, emphasis, and breathing room. Dense layouts feel overwhelming; spacious layouts feel intentional.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 12d ago First seen · 133 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A e6ef149ef23c

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visual-hierarchy-specialist is a command published in the GitHub repository imsaif/design-with-claude (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,619 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.