quality-facets

quality-facets is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lenxism/ives. It costs 99 tokens per session (700 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for describing and rating the specific qualities a product should convey, such as calm, trustworthy, precise, or inventive.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define a product’s desired character, set quality targets, evaluate designs on a 1-to-5 scale, and decide where improvements matter most.
Why use it?
It replaces broad judgments about whether a design is “good” with shared criteria that a team can discuss and track.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ives plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lenxism/ives/quality-facets
Any agent
npx skills add lenxism/ives --skill quality-facets
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lenxism/ives

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ives, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 700 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00099 $0.00700
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00350
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00070

Measured 4d ago against content hash 07c90bcf941d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quality-facets 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 4d 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/quality-facets/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quality Facets

How do you know what you're designing is good — not just functional, but good in the way you want it to be perceived? Facets are the answer.

Defining Your Facets

Facets are external characteristics you want users to perceive — what they see, experience, and feel. They are NOT generic qualities all products should have (like "useful" or "reliable"). They're specific and situational.

How to define them

Ask: "When someone uses this, what do I want them to feel and perceive?"

Each facet should be:

  • Specific to your product — not universal
  • Externally perceivable — something users experience
  • Distinct from others — each captures something different
  • Aspirational — what you're striving for

Examples

Design education platform: Crafted, Fidgetable, Authentic, Expansive, Inventive

Legal/financial app: Trustworthy, Calm, Expert, Supportive

Developer tool: Fast, Precise, Extensible, Native

Your list will be different. That's the point.

Evaluating (1-5 Scale)

  • 1 — Absolute minimum you can live with
  • 3 — Meets expectations, solid but unremarkable
  • 5 — Best you can imagine

Rate each facet honestly. This often reveals surprises:

  • Your strongest facet might be something you weren't focused on
  • Your weakest might be what users care about most
  • You might be over-investing in one area at another's expense

Using Facets

For planning

Lowest-rated facets that matter most should drive your roadmap.

For critique

Instead of "this doesn't feel right":

"This doesn't feel inventive enough. We were at 4, this feels like we're going backwards."

For team alignment

Shared vocabulary for productive tradeoff conversations:

"This feature improves Expansive from 1.5 to 2.5, but brings Crafted down from 3 to 2.5. Right tradeoff?"

For tracking

Measure at each release. Prevents quality regression — catch it before users feel it.

Constants vs. Facets

Some qualities are constants — true of ALL good products: consistent, well-built, accessible, performant. These aren't facets — they're table stakes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 4d ago First seen · 81 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 07c90bcf941d

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quality-facets is a skill published in the GitHub repository lenxism/ives (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 700 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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