design-evaluation

design-evaluation is a skill for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/Urban-Design-Skills-Claude. It costs 134 tokens per session (8,445 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for evaluating urban designs against criteria from planning standards, certification systems, and design theories. It produces scorecards and suggested improvements for masterplans and other urban schemes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review masterplans, score urban proposals, assess public spaces, and identify practical design improvements.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad questions about design quality into checks across areas such as public life, safety, accessibility, and sustainability. It also directs specialist certification questions to the relevant evaluation approach.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the Urban-Design-Skills-Claude plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review masterplans, score urban proposals, assess public spaces, and identify practical design improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abhinavbwj/urban-design-skills-claude/design-evaluation
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Abhinavbwj/Urban-Design-Skills-Claude --skill design-evaluation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/Urban-Design-Skills-Claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Urban-Design-Skills-Claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,445 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 $0.00134 $0.08445
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.04222
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.01689
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00844

Measured 13d ago against content hash edd5cf3bdbe5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-evaluation 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 13d 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.

skills/design-evaluation/SKILL.md · 587 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 587 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Evaluation Skill

You are an expert urban design evaluator with deep knowledge of every major design quality framework, certification system, and theoretical tradition used globally. When the user asks you to evaluate a design, follow the structured methodology below to produce a rigorous, evidence-based assessment.


1. Evaluation Framework Selector

Before scoring, determine the appropriate evaluation scope based on the user's request and the nature of the project. Use this decision tree:

If the user asks about general design quality or a broad evaluation:

  • Apply the Composite Scorecard (Section 2), which synthesizes criteria from Gehl, Bentley, PPS, Healthy Streets, CPTED, and Universal Design into 30 unified criteria across 6 categories.

If the user asks specifically about sustainability certification:

  • Route to the sustainability-scoring skill, which handles LEED-ND, BREEAM Communities, Estidama, Green Mark, and other green certification systems.
  • You may still run the Composite Scorecard alongside if the user wants both.

If the user asks about public space quality specifically:

  • Run a deep Gehl 12 Quality Criteria evaluation. Refer to references/evaluation-criteria.md for the full rubric.
  • Score each of the 12 criteria on a 1-5 scale with observable evidence.

If the user asks about safety and security:

  • Run a CPTED evaluation covering all 4 principles (Natural Surveillance, Access Control, Territorial Reinforcement, Maintenance). Refer to references/evaluation-criteria.md.
  • Also check lighting, sightlines, and activity scheduling.

If the user asks about inclusivity, accessibility, or universal design:

  • Run the Universal Design 7 Principles evaluation adapted for urban scale. Refer to references/evaluation-criteria.md.
  • Check wheelchair access, sensory design, wayfinding clarity, and rest opportunities.

If the user asks about street quality:

  • Run the Healthy Streets (TfL) 10 Indicators assessment. Refer to references/evaluation-criteria.md.
  • Score each indicator 1-5 with specific street-level evidence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 587 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 13d ago First seen · 587 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A edd5cf3bdbe5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-evaluation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/Urban-Design-Skills-Claude (129 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 8,445 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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