tradeoff-analysis

tradeoff-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (861 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for examining conflicts between accessibility needs and other requirements, or between the needs of different groups of users. Accessibility means making software usable by people with disabilities and varied abilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when weighing accessibility against performance, deadlines, cost, complexity, or conflicting needs such as captions, language simplicity, and colour contrast.
Why use it?
It makes the effects of a compromise explicit, including which users benefit and which users may still face barriers.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the accessibility-decisions plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when weighing accessibility against performance, deadlines, cost, complexity, or conflicting needs such as captions, language simplicity, and colour contrast.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install accessibility-decisions, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 861 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 $0.00092 $0.00861
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00086

Measured 13d ago against content hash 3f5d035bf7b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tradeoff-analysis 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 13d 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.

accessibility-decisions/skills/tradeoff-analysis/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Accessibility Tradeoff Analysis

Analyse accessibility tradeoffs rigorously — because "we can't do everything" is often true, and the quality of the tradeoff decision determines who gets included and who gets excluded.

When Tradeoffs Happen

Conflicting User Needs

  • Autoplay captions help deaf users but moving text distracts users with ADHD
  • Simplified language helps cognitive accessibility but may feel patronising to some users
  • High contrast helps low vision but can cause eye strain for some migraine conditions

Accessibility vs Other Requirements

  • Performance: rich accessibility features vs page load speed
  • Deadline: full accessibility vs shipping on time
  • Complexity: accessible custom component vs simpler but less accessible native element
  • Cost: comprehensive testing vs budget constraints

Partial Implementation

  • You can make 80% of the feature accessible now and 20% later
  • Which 80% do you choose and who does the 20% exclude?

Analysis Framework

For each tradeoff, work through:

1. Who Benefits from Option A?

  • Which user groups gain accessibility
  • How many users are affected (estimated)
  • How severe is the barrier if Option A is not chosen

2. Who Benefits from Option B?

  • Same analysis for the alternative

3. Who Is Harmed by Each Option?

  • Which user groups lose accessibility or experience degradation
  • How severe is the harm
  • Is the harm permanent or temporary (will it be fixed later?)

4. What's the Severity Asymmetry?

  • A user who CANNOT complete a task (blocked) is more severely affected than a user who finds a task HARDER (friction)
  • Prioritise removing blockers over reducing friction
  • Prioritise permanent disabilities over situational impairments (situational users have other options; permanent users may not)

5. What's the Reversibility?

  • Can this decision be changed later without significant cost?
  • If yes: choose the faster option and plan the improvement
  • If no: choose the more inclusive option and accept the delay

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 13d ago First seen · 106 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 3f5d035bf7b8

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tradeoff-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills (98 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 861 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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