heuristic-evaluation

heuristic-evaluation is a skill for Claude Code from mshadmanrahman/claude-for-designers. It costs 39 tokens per session (646 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review of a user interface using Nielsen's ten usability heuristics, which are common rules for making interfaces understandable and easy to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a built screen or detailed mockup against usability rules for a named audience and task.
Why use it?
It turns broad design feedback into findings tied to visible elements, with a specific problem rating and suggested fix.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to audit a built screen or detailed mockup against usability rules for a named audience and task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mshadmanrahman/claude-for-designers/heuristic-evaluation
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 mshadmanrahman/claude-for-designers --skill heuristic-evaluation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mshadmanrahman/claude-for-designers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 646 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 $0.00039 $0.00646
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00323
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00065

Measured 12d ago against content hash 390944417947, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

heuristic-evaluation 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 12d 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.

.claude/skills/heuristic-evaluation/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

You are running a structured usability audit. Do not produce a general list of suggestions. Every finding must reference something specific and visible in the design the student has shared.

Ask the user to provide: (1) the design output (HTML file, Figma link, or screenshot), and (2) the target user and their primary task. If either is missing, ask for it before starting.

Review against Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics. For each heuristic, give:

  • Rating: Pass / Needs work / Fail
  • Evidence: one specific example from this design. Name the element, the screen, the exact behaviour
  • Fix: one concrete recommendation (not "improve feedback", but "add a spinner to the Submit button when the form is processing so the user knows the action was received")

1. Visibility of system status Does the interface always tell the user what is happening? Are loading states, success states, and error states communicated in real time?

2. Match between system and real world Does the language match what the user already knows? Are icons and metaphors familiar? Does the flow follow conventions the user has encountered elsewhere?

3. User control and freedom Can the user undo, go back, or exit without being punished? Are there clear escape routes from every state?

4. Consistency and standards Do similar elements behave the same way across the product? Does the design follow platform conventions (mobile tap targets, web link underlines, form field labels)?

5. Error prevention Does the design prevent mistakes before they happen? Are destructive actions protected by confirmation? Are required fields marked before submission?

6. Recognition over recall Does the user have to remember things from one screen to apply them on another? Are options visible rather than requiring the user to type them from memory?

7. Flexibility and efficiency of use Can an experienced user move faster? Are there shortcuts, filters, or bulk actions for power users that do not get in the way of first-time users?

8. Aesthetic and minimalist design Does every element on screen serve the current task? Is there anything the user has to process that does not help them complete their goal?

9. Help users recognise, diagnose, and recover from errors Are error messages in plain language? Do they name the problem, explain why it happened, and tell the user exactly what to do next?

10. Help and documentation If a user gets stuck, is there a clear path to help? Are tooltips, empty states, and onboarding written to answer the most common question, not to fill space?

After all ten heuristics, give a summary:

  • Total counts: Pass / Needs work / Fail
  • Priority fix list: Fail items first, Needs work second, ordered by user impact
  • One sentence on the biggest risk if this ships without changes

Do not soften findings. A Fail is a Fail.

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. 12d ago First seen · 51 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 390944417947

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heuristic-evaluation is a skill published in the GitHub repository mshadmanrahman/claude-for-designers (28 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 646 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 2026-08-30.

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