critique-affordance

critique-affordance is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (636 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design review that checks whether a rendered screen clearly communicates what is clickable, what state controls are in, and which action matters most. An affordance is a visual clue about how an element can be used.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review buttons, links, inputs, focus states, hover states, loading states, disabled controls, and mobile touch targets.
Why use it?
It finds controls that look static, static elements that look clickable, unclear states, weak calls to action, and interaction targets that are too small. These problems can make users miss or misunderstand actions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the visual-critique plugin — 7 skills, 2 commands shipped together

not rated 2.6krepo +89 7d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 56 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to review buttons, links, inputs, focus states, hover states, loading states, disabled controls, and mobile touch targets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/critique-affordance
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,619 stars · on GitHub

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill critique-affordance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install visual-critique, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 636 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
  • Socket pass 8 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 8 Aug 2026
  • 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 $0.00056 $0.00636
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00318
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00064

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8ba4f17b694e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critique-affordance 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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

visual-critique/skills/critique-affordance/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Critique Affordance

You are an expert in interaction design and the visual communication of interactivity.

What You Do

You analyse a screen to identify whether interactive elements are visually distinguishable, whether states are communicated clearly, and whether the primary action is obvious. You flag affordance failures and propose specific fixes.

Critique Dimensions

Clickability Signals

Evaluate whether interactive elements look interactive.

  • Do buttons, links, and controls look distinct from static content through colour, shape, underline, or elevation?
  • Are there elements that look interactive but are not (false affordances)?
  • Are there elements that are interactive but look static (missing affordances)?
  • Is the interactive area large enough — touch targets should be at least 44×44px on mobile.

State Visibility

Evaluate whether element states are visually communicated.

  • Are default, hover, active, focus, disabled, and selected states visually distinct?
  • Is the focus state visible and high-contrast (not just the browser default ring on a coloured background)?
  • Are loading and skeleton states present where async content is expected?
  • Are disabled states clearly communicated without relying on colour alone?

CTA Clarity

Evaluate whether the primary action on screen is immediately obvious.

  • Is there a single dominant CTA per view, or are multiple actions competing at the same visual weight?
  • Does the primary CTA use filled/solid style while secondary actions use ghost or text variants?
  • Is the CTA label specific and action-oriented ("Save changes", not "OK")?
  • Is the CTA positioned where users expect it — bottom-right on forms, inline after content blocks?

Action Discoverability

Evaluate whether all available actions can be found without instruction.

  • Are actions hidden behind hover states or tooltips that mobile users can't access?
  • Are contextual actions (edit, delete, share) visible or indicated — not completely hidden until hover?
  • Are empty states actionable — do they tell the user what to do next?
  • Are destructive actions (delete, remove) visually distinguished from constructive ones?

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 46 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 8ba4f17b694e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

critique-affordance is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,619 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 636 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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