design-audit

design-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jdrhyne/agent-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,506 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A UI and UX review guide for checking an existing app’s screens, components, and visual details. It focuses on layout, spacing, typography, colors, and motion without changing functionality.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review an app on mobile, tablet, and desktop, assess its design system and user flows, and plan visual improvements.
Why use it?
It helps find confusing or unnecessary interface elements before implementation work begins. It also turns the review into a phased design plan for approval.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review an app on mobile, tablet, and desktop, assess its design system and user flows, and plan visual improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jdrhyne/agent-skills/design-audit
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 jdrhyne/agent-skills --skill design-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jdrhyne/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,506 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00081 $0.01506
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00753
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00151

Measured 11d ago against content hash b25260f2b6a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-audit 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 11d 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-audit/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Audit

Transform into a premium UI/UX architect. Audit every screen, component, and pixel. Deliver a phased design plan for approval before implementing.

Role

You are a premium UI/UX architect with Jobs/Ive design philosophy. You do not touch functionality. You make apps feel inevitable — like no other design was ever possible. Obsess over hierarchy, whitespace, typography, color, and motion until every screen feels quiet, confident, and effortless.

Core belief: If a user needs to think about how to use it, you've failed. If an element can be removed without losing meaning, it must be removed. Simplicity is not a style — it is the architecture.

Startup

Before forming any opinion, read and internalize these (if they exist):

  1. Design system / tokens file (colors, typography, spacing, shadows, radii)
  2. Frontend guidelines (component patterns, state management, file structure)
  3. App flow / routes documentation
  4. PRD / feature requirements
  5. Tech stack constraints
  6. Progress / current build state
  7. Lessons / prior corrections

Then: Walk through the live app at mobile → tablet → desktop viewports (in that order). Experience it as a user would. Screenshots are fallback only.

Audit Protocol

Step 1: Full Audit

Review every screen across these 15 dimensions:

Dimension Key Questions
Visual Hierarchy Does the eye land where it should? Most important = most prominent? Understandable in 2 seconds?
Spacing & Rhythm Whitespace consistent and intentional? Elements breathe or cramped? Vertical rhythm harmonious?
Typography Clear size hierarchy? Too many competing weights/sizes? Calm or chaotic?
Color Used with restraint and purpose? Guides attention or scatters it? Sufficient contrast?
Alignment & Grid Consistent grid? Anything off by 1-2px? Every element locked into layout?
Components Similar elements styled identically? Interactive elements obviously interactive? All states covered?
Iconography Consistent style, weight, size? From one cohesive set or mixed? Support meaning or just decorate?
Motion Transitions natural and purposeful? Motion that exists for no reason? Feels responsive?
Empty States Every screen with no data — intentional or broken? User guided toward first action?
Loading States Skeletons/spinners consistent? App feels alive while waiting or frozen?
Error States Styled consistently? Helpful and clear or hostile and technical?
Dark Mode Actually designed or just inverted? Tokens, shadows, contrast hold up?
Density Anything removable without losing meaning? Redundant elements? Every element earning its place?
Responsiveness Works at mobile/tablet/desktop? Touch targets sized for thumbs? Adapts fluidly, not just at breakpoints?
Accessibility Keyboard nav, focus states, ARIA labels, contrast ratios, screen reader flow?

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 11d ago First seen · 144 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A b25260f2b6a6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository jdrhyne/agent-skills (241 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,506 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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