adversarial-ux-test

adversarial-ux-test is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from metaspartan/cybara. It costs 28 tokens per session (428 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A usability test that examines an app through the eyes of one impatient or demanding user.

In plain words
What is it for?
Testing onboarding, core workflows, error recovery, readability, accessibility, navigation, and perceived effort, then turning serious findings into tickets.
Why use it?
It reveals confusing steps, errors, terminology problems, and other obstacles before users encounter them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Testing onboarding, core workflows, error recovery, readability, accessibility, navigation, and perceived effort, then turning serious findings into tickets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/metaspartan/cybara/adversarial-ux-test
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 metaspartan/cybara --skill adversarial-ux-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/metaspartan/cybara

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 428 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 $0.00028 $0.00428
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 10d ago against content hash b9e22cef9990, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adversarial-ux-test 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 10d 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/adversarial-ux-test/SKILL.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

Adversarial UX Test

Use this before demos, launches, onboarding changes, or major UI releases when the user wants friction found by a realistic hard-to-please persona.

Workflow

  1. Define one persona:
    • Role, age range, technical comfort, core task, frustration triggers, and voice.
  2. Browse the app as that persona:
    • First impression.
    • Core workflow.
    • Error recovery.
    • Readability and accessibility.
    • Speed and perceived effort.
    • Terminology.
    • Navigation and return paths.
  3. Record evidence:
    • Screenshots for each major issue.
    • Console errors.
    • Network failures.
    • Click count for the core task.
  4. Write the persona rant:
    • In character, with concrete quotes and page references.
  5. Apply the pragmatism filter:
    • Red: real UX bug.
    • Yellow: valid but lower priority.
    • Green: feature request with strong value.
    • White: persona noise.
  6. Produce tickets only for Red and Green items.

Rules

  • One persona per session.
  • Test the core workflow before touring settings.
  • Do not create more than 10 tickets.
  • Separate entertaining persona feedback from objective product findings.
  • Do not turn "I hate computers" into product work unless it exposes a real accessibility or workflow issue.

Report Shape

Persona: <name and constraints>
Task: <core task>
Verdict: <would they keep using it?>

Persona feedback:
- "<quote>" - <what happened>

Filtered findings:
- RED: <issue, evidence, suggested fix>
- YELLOW: <issue>
- GREEN: <request>
- WHITE: <noise>

Tickets:
- <title> - <evidence> - <fix>
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. 10d ago First seen · 64 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A b9e22cef9990

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adversarial-ux-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository metaspartan/cybara (28 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 428 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.