ux-search

ux-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from parhamb/design-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (649 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for designing and reviewing search inside an app, covering finding the search box, suggestions, recent searches, filters, sorting, voice input, and misspelled queries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for search bars, autocomplete, recent-query history, result pages, filters, sorting, no-result screens, voice search, and typo handling.
Why use it?
It helps users reach content quickly and understand what their search returned or why nothing matched. It also reduces confusion around search scope and result controls.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for search bars, autocomplete, recent-query history, result pages, filters, sorting, no-result screens, voice search, and typo handling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/parhamb/design-skills/ux-search
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 parhamb/design-skills --skill ux-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parhamb/design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 649 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 $0.00049 $0.00649
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00065

Measured 12d ago against content hash 525b12f431ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ux-search 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.

ux-search/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search UX

Search is often the fastest path to content. A poor search experience is one of the most common reasons users churn from content-heavy apps.


Checklist

Item Guidance
Search discoverability Search bar is visible on the home screen or one tap away. Never buried in a menu.
Recent searches Last 5 to 10 queries are saved. User can delete individual entries.
Search suggestions Autocomplete appears after 1 to 2 keystrokes. Debounced at ~300ms.
Filter and sort Filter chips appear above results. Active filter count shown in a badge.
Empty state message "No results for X" is paired with a spelling suggestion and related categories. General empty-state standards live in ux-error-handling.
Search scope indicator UI makes it clear what is being searched ("Searching in Orders").
Voice search Microphone icon in the search bar. Uses platform speech recognition APIs.
Typo tolerance Fuzzy matching handles common spelling mistakes gracefully.

Patterns

Progressive disclosure: Show the top 3 results inline with a "See all" link rather than sending users to a full results page for every query.

Federated search: When the app has multiple content types, group results by type (People, Products, Documents) with clear section headers. Let users filter to a specific type if needed.

Blank state suggestions: When the search bar is empty, show trending or personalized suggestions rather than a blank box. This reduces the cognitive load of starting a search from scratch.

Zero-result analytics: Track every search that returns no results. These queries are a direct signal of content gaps or labeling mismatches.

Search scope clarity: If the search applies to a subset of content, say so upfront. Users who search in a filtered context and get no results often blame the app, not the active filter.


How to Review

When applying this checklist to a screen, flow, or codebase:

  1. Go through every checklist item and mark it Pass, Fail, or N/A — never skip items silently.
  2. Cite specific evidence for each finding: the screen, component, file, or line it applies to.
  3. Tag each failure with a severity: Blocker (breaks the experience), Major (hurts usability), or Minor (polish).
  4. End the review with the top 3 recommended fixes, ranked by user impact.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 12d ago First seen · 69 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 525b12f431ba

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ux-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository parhamb/design-skills (23 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 649 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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