design-evaluation-scoring

design-evaluation-scoring is a skill for Claude Code from oborchers/fractional-cto. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,076 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scoring method for evaluating visual design across eight areas, including layout, typography, color, spacing, hierarchy, consistency, craftsmanship, and expression. Each area receives a score from 1 to 5.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a visual artifact, compare designs quantitatively, or apply a checklist of common visual-design problems.
Why use it?
It makes design comparisons more consistent than giving an overall opinion. It also shows which specific areas are lowering the overall assessment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the visual-design-principles plugin — 12 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a visual artifact, compare designs quantitatively, or apply a checklist of common visual-design problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oborchers/fractional-cto/design-evaluation-scoring
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 oborchers/fractional-cto --skill design-evaluation-scoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oborchers/fractional-cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install visual-design-principles, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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.

agentmods badge for design-evaluation-scoring

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,076 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 $0.00095 $0.02076
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00830
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00208

Measured 5d ago against content hash c71b889b6cee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-evaluation-scoring 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.

visual-design-principles/skills/design-evaluation-scoring/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visual Quality Is Not Subjective -- It Is Measurable Across 8 Dimensions

Empirical aesthetics research (VisAWI by Moshagen & Thielsch, Lavie & Tractinsky 2004, Seckler et al. 2015) shows that perceived visual quality is not arbitrary opinion -- it decomposes into measurable dimensions. The 8-dimension framework below maps each dimension to research-validated constructs, giving you a repeatable, objective scoring system for any visual artifact.

The 8 Dimensions

# Dimension Research Alignment What It Measures
1 Layout Seckler et al. (structural clarity) Grid adherence, alignment, spatial composition, responsive behavior
2 Typography Bringhurst, Butterick Type scale, font pairing, line length, readability, hierarchy
3 Color Reinecke et al., 60-30-10 rule Palette harmony, contrast compliance, shade scale, dark mode
4 Whitespace Pracejus et al. (perceptions of luxury) Spacing consistency, density ratio, separation techniques
5 Hierarchy Refactoring UI (emphasis/de-emphasis) Focal points, 3-tier clarity, scanning patterns, CTA prominence
6 Consistency VisAWI Craftsmanship subscale Design tokens, component uniformity, cross-screen coherence
7 Craftsmanship VisAWI Craftsmanship subscale Pixel precision, image quality, shadows, micro-interactions, CLS
8 Expression Lavie & Tractinsky (Expressive aesthetics) Brand personality, visual motifs, illustration, motion, originality

Quick Scoring Rubric

Score each dimension 1-5. Total is out of 40.

Score Meaning Indicators
1 Broken Fundamental violations; unusable or visually chaotic
2 Weak Multiple issues; feels amateur or unfinished
3 Adequate Meets basics; no major violations but lacks refinement
4 Good Consistent and polished; minor improvements possible
5 Excellent Research-aligned best practice; cohesive and intentional

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 143 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A c71b889b6cee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-evaluation-scoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository oborchers/fractional-cto (32 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,076 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-13.

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