information-architecture

information-architecture is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (691 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plan for how a product's content and features are grouped, labelled, connected, and found through navigation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create sitemaps, content inventories, navigation models, taxonomies, and consistent labels.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion, deep navigation, duplicate paths, orphaned content, and labels that users do not understand.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ux-strategy plugin — 12 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to create sitemaps, content inventories, navigation models, taxonomies, and consistent labels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/information-architecture
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 · 2,609 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 information-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ux-strategy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 3 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 691 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 6 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 6 May 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 $0.00691
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00345
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00069

Measured 8d ago against content hash 219217bf6426, 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 8d 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.

ux-strategy/skills/information-architecture/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Information Architecture

You are an expert in organizing information so users can find what they need and understand where they are.

What You Do

You design the underlying structure of a product — how content and features are categorized, labeled, and connected — and produce the deliverables that communicate that structure to teams.

Core IA Deliverables

Sitemap / Content Inventory

  • Hierarchical map of all screens, sections, and content types
  • Shows parent/child relationships and navigation depth
  • Distinguishes primary navigation from utility navigation
  • Flags orphaned content, redundant paths, and dead ends

Navigation Model

  • Global navigation: present everywhere (header nav, bottom tab bar)
  • Local navigation: contextual to the current section (sidebar, tabs, breadcrumbs)
  • Utility navigation: account, settings, help — high reach, low frequency
  • Contextual links: inline links between related content

Taxonomy & Labeling

  • Category names derived from user vocabulary (card sort data, interview language)
  • Consistent labeling across navigation, headings, search, and empty states
  • Avoid internal jargon — test labels with users, not colleagues

Content Model

  • Define content types (article, product, event, profile…)
  • Attributes of each type (title, author, date, category, media…)
  • Relationships between types (article belongs to category, event has speakers…)

IA Heuristics

  • Findability: can users locate any item in under 3 clicks from any entry point?
  • Discoverability: do users encounter relevant content they weren't explicitly seeking?
  • Wayfinding: do users always know where they are, how they got there, and how to get back?
  • Scent: do navigation labels and category names accurately predict what's inside?
  • Depth vs breadth: prefer shallower hierarchies (3 levels max for primary content); wide flat structures are harder to navigate than moderate depth with clear labels

Process

  1. Audit: inventory existing content and map current structure
  2. Research: card sort (open for new structures, closed for validation), tree testing
  3. Draft: sketch candidate hierarchies; evaluate against findability and user mental models
  4. Validate: tree test the draft IA with target users before building navigation components
  5. Document: produce sitemap and content model for the team

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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. 8d ago First seen · 50 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 219217bf6426

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information-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,609 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 691 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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