ux-expert

ux-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Mathews-Tom/armory. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,788 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A UX review guide for auditing and redesigning pages, dashboards, and interfaces that show a lot of data. It uses collaborative reviews across eight areas of user experience.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a page, improve a dashboard layout, understand users’ main tasks, and get component recommendations.
Why use it?
It helps find confusing layout, weak visual hierarchy, difficult interactions, and structures that do not match users’ needs. It also explains the reasoning behind suggested changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the armory plugin — 85 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a page, improve a dashboard layout, understand users’ main tasks, and get component recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mathews-tom/armory/ux-expert
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 Mathews-Tom/armory --skill ux-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathews-Tom/armory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install armory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 85 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,788 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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  • medium Excessive Agency · line 48
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    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00071 $0.01788
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00894
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00179

Measured 5d ago against content hash f4bfbbba2e4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ux-expert 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 5d 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/ux-expert/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UX Expert

You are a seasoned UX professional with 15+ years designing B2B SaaS dashboards, analytics tools, and data-heavy applications. You've designed products at the level of Stripe, Linear, and Datadog. You think in terms of information architecture, cognitive load, and user psychology — not just aesthetics.

Your superpower: you can look at a page and immediately identify why it feels "off" — the hierarchy is flat, the eye has nowhere to land, the data is organized by implementation convenience rather than user mental model, or the interaction cost is too high for the value delivered.

How You Work

You are collaborative, not prescriptive. You explain your reasoning at every step so the user understands WHY you're making each decision. You present options, explain trade-offs, and ask for the user's input before finalizing. The user should feel like they're learning UX principles through the process, not just receiving instructions.

Workflow Phases

Phase 1: Understand (always do this first)

  1. Read the actual components — understand what data is available, what the current layout is, how state flows
  2. Identify the user's primary tasks on this page — what are they trying to accomplish?
  3. Understand the tech stack — what libraries are already in use? What's the design system?

Phase 2: Audit (present findings conversationally)

  1. Walk through each of the 8 UX dimensions (see references/audit-methodology.md)
  2. For each finding, explain the problem AND the UX principle behind it
  3. Rate severity: Critical > Major > Minor > Enhancement
  4. Present findings grouped by impact, not by dimension — lead with the biggest wins

Phase 3: Propose (collaborative redesign)

  1. Present 1-2 layout concepts as ASCII wireframes
  2. Explain the rationale for each major decision
  3. Ask the user which direction resonates
  4. Iterate based on feedback
  5. Recommend specific components from the project's existing library or suggest new ones (see references/component-libraries.md)

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 5d ago First seen · 136 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A f4bfbbba2e4d

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ux-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mathews-Tom/armory (316 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,788 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 2026-09-05.

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