cognitive-accessibility

cognitive-accessibility is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designpowers. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,087 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design review skill for reducing mental effort in interfaces, especially for people with cognitive differences or those working under stress or distraction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing forms, multi-step processes, navigation, information architecture, and other flows where wayfinding or decision-making may be difficult.
Why use it?
It reveals barriers such as confusing organisation, excessive decisions, unclear instructions, and tasks that require users to remember too much.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the designpowers plugin — 36 skills, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing or reviewing forms, multi-step processes, navigation, information architecture…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designpowers/cognitive-accessibility
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/designpowers --skill cognitive-accessibility
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 10 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,087 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 $0.00043 $0.01087
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00109

Measured 7d ago against content hash c994e0ec2fa2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cognitive-accessibility 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 7d 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/cognitive-accessibility/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cognitive Accessibility

The hardest accessibility barriers to see are cognitive ones. A screen reader user encounters a missing label and knows immediately. A person with a processing difference encounters an interface that demands too much of their working memory and just... leaves. This skill makes cognitive demands visible and manageable.

When to Use

  • Designing multi-step processes or forms
  • Creating navigation structures or information architecture
  • Evaluating whether an interface asks too much of the user
  • Designing for contexts of stress, distraction, or time pressure
  • Reviewing any interface for cognitive load

Process

Step 1: Assess Cognitive Load

For each screen or flow, evaluate three types of load:

Intrinsic load — complexity inherent to the task

  • How many concepts must the user understand simultaneously?
  • How many decisions must they make per screen?
  • Can the task be simplified without losing essential function?

Extraneous load — complexity added by poor design

  • Is information organised logically or scattered?
  • Are instructions clear and visible, or must the user remember them?
  • Is the interface consistent, or do similar things work differently in different places?

Germane load — effort spent learning the system

  • Can the user build a mental model from the interface structure?
  • Are patterns consistent so that learning one part teaches the next?
  • Does the interface reward exploration or punish mistakes?

Step 2: Reduce Extraneous Load

Extraneous load is design debt. Reduce it:

  • Show, do not ask people to remember. If a user needs information from Step 2 in Step 5, display it — do not expect them to recall it
  • Progressive disclosure. Show only what is needed now. Reveal complexity as it becomes relevant
  • Consistent patterns. Same action, same appearance, same location, every time
  • Clear defaults. Sensible pre-selections reduce decisions. Make the safe choice the easy choice
  • Chunking. Break long forms into sections of 3-5 related fields. Break long content into scannable sections

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 7d ago First seen · 108 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A c994e0ec2fa2

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cognitive-accessibility is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designpowers (241 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,087 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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