information-architecture

information-architecture is a skill for Codex from memi-design/design-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (532 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for organizing a product's content, objects, labels, navigation, search, and filters so people can predict where things are and what they mean. It uses real content and user tasks to define categories and relationships.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory content and permissions, identify retrieval tasks, study user mental models, define categories and synonyms, and choose navigation patterns for global, local, contextual, utility, or sequential movement.
Why use it?
It addresses products where users cannot find information, understand labels, or predict where an action belongs. It separates the way an organization describes its data from the language users actually use.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to inventory content and permissions, identify retrieval tasks, study user mental models, define categories and synonyms, and choose navigation patterns for global, local, contextual, utility, or sequential movement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/memi-design/design-skills/information-architecture
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 memi-design/design-skills --skill information-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/memi-design/design-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 532 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 $0.00045 $0.00532
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00266
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00053

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6b7be4b22058, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

information-architecture 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/information-architecture/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Information Architecture

Create a structure that makes location, meaning, and movement predictable. Do not use visual hierarchy to conceal an unresolved taxonomy.

Inputs

Collect representative content and objects, top user tasks, entry points, current navigation, search behavior, terminology, permissions, scale expectations, and analytics or research evidence. Sample real long-tail content, not only ideal examples.

Workflow

  1. Inventory the domain. List content types, objects, attributes, relationships, owners, lifecycle, and access rules. Flag duplicates and orphaned material.
  2. Prioritize retrieval tasks. Identify what users need to find, compare, understand, or act on, including frequency and consequence.
  3. Elicit mental models. Use interviews, search queries, support language, card sorting, and observed behavior. Separate internal organization language from user language.
  4. Define the taxonomy. Create mutually understandable categories and facets. State inclusion rules, exclusions, synonyms, and governance ownership.
  5. Choose navigation patterns. Match global, local, contextual, utility, and sequential navigation to task relationships. Avoid using nesting as the default solution.
  6. Design labels. Prefer specific, familiar, parallel labels. Test ambiguous terms in context and provide disambiguation where categories overlap.
  7. Design retrieval. Decide when browsing, search, filtering, sorting, saved views, or recommendations are appropriate. Define searchable fields and useful zero-result recovery.
  8. Model growth and permissions. Test deep content, large counts, role differences, localization, archived states, and future object types.
  9. Validate. Use tree testing for findability, card sorting for grouping, first-click tests for orientation, and task-based usability tests for the complete experience.

Output contract

Return:

  • domain inventory and object relationships;
  • prioritized retrieval tasks;
  • taxonomy with category rules and synonyms;
  • navigation map;
  • search, filter, and sorting model;
  • labeling decisions;
  • validation plan and governance owner.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 43 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 6b7be4b22058

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information-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository memi-design/design-skills (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 532 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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