usability-tester

usability-tester is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daffy0208/ai-dev-standards. It costs 53 tokens per session (3,113 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A usability testing guide for watching people attempt tasks in a product and recording where they struggle. It covers test plans, task scenarios, think-aloud sessions, and issue severity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test onboarding, sign-up, exports, pricing pages, and other important user flows, then rank the problems found.
Why use it?
It replaces guesses about user experience with observed evidence, helping find confusing screens and blocked user journeys.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to test onboarding, sign-up, exports, pricing pages, and other important user flows, then rank the problems found.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/usability-tester
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 daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --skill usability-tester
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,113 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 $0.00053 $0.03113
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01556
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00623
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00311

Measured 8d ago against content hash 748e80d78284, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

usability-tester 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 8d 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/usability-tester/SKILL.md · 518 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 518 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Usability Tester

Validate that users can successfully complete core tasks through systematic observation.

Core Principle

Watch users struggle. The best way to find UX issues is to observe real users attempting real tasks. Their struggles reveal truth that surveys and analytics cannot.

Test Planning

1. Define Test Objectives

Good Objectives:
  - "Can users complete onboarding in <5 minutes?"
  - "Can users find and use the export feature?"
  - "Do users understand the pricing page?"

Bad Objectives:
  - "Test the UI" (too vague)
  - "See if users like it" (subjective, not behavioral)

2. Research Questions

Examples:
  - Where do users get stuck during sign-up?
  - Can users find the settings page?
  - Do users understand what each tier includes?
  - What errors do users encounter?

3. Identify Core Tasks

Choose 3-5 tasks that represent key user journeys:

Example Tasks (Project Management Tool): 1. Sign up and create account
  2. Create your first project
  3. Invite a team member
  4. Assign a task to someone
  5. Export project data

4. Recruit Participants

Sample Size:
  - 5-8 users per persona
  - After 5 users, diminishing returns (Nielsen's research)
  - Test in waves: 5 users → fix issues → test 5 more

Recruitment Criteria:
  - Match target persona
  - Haven't used product before (for onboarding tests)
  - Or: Active users (for feature tests)

Incentives:
  - $50-100 per hour (B2C)
  - $100-200 per hour (B2B professionals)
  - Gift cards work well

Task Scenarios

Best Practices

Good task scenario:

"Your team is launching a new project next week. Create a project
called 'Q2 Launch' and invite [email protected] to collaborate."

Why it works:

  • Realistic context
  • Clear goal
  • Natural language
  • Doesn't give step-by-step instructions

Bad task scenario:

"Click the 'New Project' button, then enter 'Q2 Launch', then
click Settings, then click Invite, then enter email."

Read the full file on GitHub · 518 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 518 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 748e80d78284

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usability-tester is a skill published in the GitHub repository daffy0208/ai-dev-standards (36 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 3,113 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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