assess-load

assess-load is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (395 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for mapping the mental effort required across every step of a multi-step process. Cognitive load means how much users must read, remember, decide, and understand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess checkout flows, onboarding, applications, and other journeys with multiple steps.
Why use it?
It reveals points where people are likely to struggle, make mistakes, or abandon a process.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cognitive-accessibility plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess checkout flows, onboarding, applications, and other journeys with multiple steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/assess-load
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/inclusive-design-skills --skill assess-load
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cognitive-accessibility, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 395 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 $0.00054 $0.00395
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00040

Measured 12d ago against content hash ffe5cd389135, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assess-load 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.

cognitive-accessibility/skills/assess-load/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Assess Load

Map the cognitive load across a complete multi-step process and identify where users are most likely to struggle, give up, or make errors.

Process

Step 1: Map the Journey

List every step in the process from start to completion. For each step, note: what the user sees, what they must do, and what they must decide.

Step 2: Rate Each Step

Using cognitive-load-assessment, evaluate each step across all six dimensions (decisions, memory, concepts, steps, reading, visual). Record the rating for each.

Step 3: Identify Load Spikes

Plot the load across the journey. Identify:

  • Steps where load suddenly increases (load spikes)
  • Consecutive steps with medium-or-higher load (sustained load)
  • Points where users must remember information from earlier steps (memory bridges)

Step 4: Check Navigation and Memory

Using wayfinding-navigation and memory-load-reduction, verify:

  • Can users always get back to a previous step?
  • Is progress saved automatically?
  • Is key context carried forward between steps?
  • Can users see where they are in the overall process?

Step 5: Recommendations

For each load spike or sustained load zone, recommend specific design changes to bring the load rating down.

Output

Deliver a cognitive load map: a step-by-step table showing the load rating at each point in the journey, annotated with:

  • Load spikes flagged in red
  • Memory bridges highlighted
  • Specific reduction recommendations for each issue
  • An overall cognitive load score for the process
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 · 49 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A ffe5cd389135

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assess-load is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills (98 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 395 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 2026-08-30.

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