information-architecture

information-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 31 tokens per session (534 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for organizing information so people can find and understand it easily. It covers navigation, categories, page hierarchies, and user journeys.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan sitemaps, navigation, taxonomies, search structures, and user flows. It also covers ways to validate these structures through card sorting and tree testing.
Why use it?
It prevents websites, apps, and documentation from becoming confusing as they grow. It helps match the structure of a product to the way users look for information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan sitemaps, navigation, taxonomies, search structures, and user flows. It also covers ways to validate these structures through card sorting and tree testing.

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Install with agentmods
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Any agent
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill information-architecture
Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 534 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 16 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 16 Sept 2026
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Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00214
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 266bd5299a3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

information-architecture 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/scaffold-tests.sh, templates/test-template.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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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/information-architecture/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Information Architecture

Table of Contents

Overview

Information Architecture creates logical structures that help users find and understand information easily.

When to Use

  • Website or app redesign
  • Large information spaces (documentation, e-commerce)
  • Navigation structure planning
  • Taxonomy and categorization
  • Search functionality design
  • User journey mapping

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

IA Process:

1. Research & Discovery
  - Interview users about mental models
  - Card sorting sessions (open and closed)
  - Analyze current usage patterns
  - Competitive analysis

2. Structure Development
  - Create organization scheme (hierarchical, faceted, etc.)
  - Define categories and relationships
  - Build taxonomy
  - Plan navigation

3. Wireframing
  - Sitemap creation
  - Navigation structure
  - Page templates
  - User flows

4. Validation
  - User testing with prototypes
  - Tree testing (navigation only)
  - Iterate based on feedback

// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
Card Sorting & Taxonomy Card Sorting & Taxonomy
Sitemap & Navigation Structure Sitemap & Navigation Structure
Search & Discovery Search & Discovery

Best Practices

✅ DO

  • Start with user research
  • Conduct card sorting studies
  • Use user mental models
  • Keep hierarchy 3 levels deep max
  • Use clear, simple labels
  • Enable multiple ways to find content
  • Test navigation with users
  • Update based on usage data
  • Document taxonomy
  • Provide search functionality

❌ DON'T

  • Impose organizational structure without research
  • Use jargon or technical terms
  • Make hierarchy too deep
  • Bury important content
  • Rely only on navigation (provide search)
  • Change navigation frequently
  • Create ambiguous labels
  • Forget about edge cases
  • Ignore accessibility
  • Assume desktop-only navigation

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2mo ago First seen · 101 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 266bd5299a3b

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information-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (376 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 534 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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