nielsen-heuristics-audit

nielsen-heuristics-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mastepanoski/claude-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,720 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A user-interface audit based on Jakob Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics, which are general principles for making interfaces easier to understand and use. It examines areas such as feedback, error prevention, consistency, and recovery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate an app, website, or other interface, compare design options, or identify user-experience and technical improvements.
Why use it?
It helps find usability problems systematically before or during user testing. The results can help teams prioritize improvements to an interface.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to evaluate an app, website, or other interface, compare design options, or identify user-experience and technical improvements.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add mastepanoski/claude-skills --skill nielsen-heuristics-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mastepanoski/claude-skills

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When invoked 3,720 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 5 Mar 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01860
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00744
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00372

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Grade B, and why

nielsen-heuristics-audit scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

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skills/nielsen-heuristics-audit/SKILL.md · 511 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 511 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nielsen Heuristics UX Audit

This skill enables AI agents to perform a comprehensive usability evaluation of apps, websites, or digital interfaces using Jakob Nielsen's 10 Usability Heuristics, the industry-standard framework for identifying usability problems.

These heuristics are battle-tested principles used by UX professionals worldwide to systematically evaluate interfaces and identify usability issues before user testing.

Use this skill to conduct thorough heuristic evaluations, prioritize usability improvements, and create actionable recommendations.

Combine with "Don Norman Principles Audit" for human-centered design assessment or "WCAG Accessibility" for inclusive design compliance.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke this skill when:

  • Conducting a systematic usability evaluation
  • Identifying usability problems before user testing
  • Auditing existing interfaces for improvement opportunities
  • Prioritizing UX debt and technical improvements
  • Training teams on usability best practices
  • Comparing multiple design alternatives

Inputs Required

When executing this audit, gather:

  • interface_description: Detailed interface description (purpose, target users, key features, platform: web/mobile/desktop) [REQUIRED]
  • screenshots_or_links: URLs of screenshots, prototypes, or live site/app [OPTIONAL]
  • user_flows: Key user journeys to evaluate (e.g., "onboarding", "checkout", "search and filter") [OPTIONAL]
  • known_issues: Existing bug reports or user complaints [OPTIONAL]
  • competitive_context: Similar products or industry standards to compare against [OPTIONAL]

The 10 Nielsen Heuristics

Evaluate against these principles established by Jakob Nielsen (Nielsen Norman Group):

1. Visibility of System Status

The design should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within a reasonable amount of time.

Check for:

  • Loading indicators and progress bars
  • State changes (selected, active, disabled, hover)
  • Confirmation messages after actions
  • Current location indicators (breadcrumbs, active nav)
  • Process completion status
  • Background operations visibility

Read the full file on GitHub · 511 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. 13d ago First seen · 511 lines · 45 tokens per session scan B 19f379f6dda9

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nielsen-heuristics-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository mastepanoski/claude-skills (53 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,720 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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