researching-website-design

researching-website-design is a skill for Claude Code from qte77/claude-code-plugins. It costs 42 tokens per session (718 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research workflow for studying website design patterns, including page layout, typography, colors, and content presentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare industry websites, record sources, identify common patterns, and suggest design improvements.
Why use it?
It helps turn observations from several websites into organized design findings and practical ideas.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the website-audit plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare industry websites, record sources, identify common patterns, and suggest design improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qte77/claude-code-plugins/researching-website-design
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 qte77/claude-code-plugins --skill researching-website-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qte77/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install website-audit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 718 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 $0.00042 $0.00718
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00287
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00072

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 08b840e91ad5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researching-website-design 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 1mo 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.

plugins/website-audit/skills/researching-website-design/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Website Design Research

Target: $ARGUMENTS

Analyzes industry websites for design patterns through first-principles thinking. Focus on layout, typography, color, and content presentation. Pair with auditing-website-accessibility and auditing-website-usability for implementation.

Core Question

"How would users naturally expect this information organized if they had never seen a website?"

Workflow

  1. Find websites - Search "[industry] companies/platforms", target 6-8 sites
  2. Extract design elements - Colors (hex), typography, layout hierarchy, CTAs
  3. Track sources - URL, authority level (H/M/L), cited research, cross-references
  4. Identify anomalies - Who breaks conventions with better UX results?
  5. Synthesize findings - Breakthroughs, patterns, contrarian insights, quick wins

Output Format

Source Index

1. [Company] - [URL] - Authority: [H/M/L]
   Cites: [Studies/sources referenced]
   Cross-refs: [Shared sources with other sites]

Design Breakthroughs (Max 3)

BREAKTHROUGH #N (Impact: N/100)
Pattern: [Specific design element]
Principle: [Why it works for users]
Opportunity: [How to apply]
Sources: [URLs and cited research]

Visual and Content Patterns

COLORS: Primary #HEX [effect], Accent #HEX [effect]
TYPOGRAPHY: Headers [font/weight], Body [font/size]
HEADLINES: "[Pattern]" - [User psychology]
CTAS: "[Button text]" - [Action driver]

Contrarian Insights

Everyone: [Common practice]
Reality: [What creates better UX]
Evidence: [Sources]

Quick Wins

ELIMINATE: [Element hurting UX]
SIMPLIFY: [Over-complex pattern]
ADOPT: [Underused effective pattern]

Rules

  • Focus exclusively on visual design, layout, typography, and content
  • Question every design assumption with first-principles thinking
  • Extract exact values: hex codes, font names, button text
  • Track cross-references between sites to identify authoritative sources
  • Keep insights concise and actionable for design implementation

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 1mo ago First seen · 94 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 08b840e91ad5

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researching-website-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository qte77/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 718 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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