information-architecture

information-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 131 tokens per session (2,251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to information architecture: organizing a website or product through its sitemap, navigation, URLs, content types, categories, labels, and search structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or audit navigation, URL patterns, taxonomies, site search, page types, and the organization of marketing sites, products, stores, or knowledge bases.
Why use it?
It helps make content easier to find and gives design and development decisions a clear structure to build on.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan or audit navigation, URL patterns, taxonomies, site search, page types, and the organization of marketing sites, products, stores, or knowledge bases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/information-architecture
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 rampstackco/claude-skills --skill information-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,251 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00131 $0.02251
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.01125
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00225

Measured 8d ago against content hash b61e91c357c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

information-architecture 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 8d 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/information-architecture/SKILL.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Information Architecture

Design the structure that holds the content. Stack-agnostic. Applies to marketing sites, product surfaces, knowledge bases, e-commerce, and editorial content.

A well-designed IA makes the rest of the project easier. A poorly-designed IA forces every downstream decision to fight the structure.


When to use

  • Designing a new site or major section from scratch
  • Restructuring an existing site
  • Adding a new content type or category
  • Designing site navigation or menu systems
  • Defining URL structure and slug patterns
  • Building taxonomies or tag systems
  • Auditing an existing IA for problems

When NOT to use

  • Single-page design (use design-standards)
  • Content production (use content-and-copy)
  • SEO-driven content planning (use seo-keyword)
  • Initial brand and audience discovery (use brand-discovery)

Required inputs

  • The site or product scope
  • The audience and what they're trying to do
  • The content that exists or is planned
  • Any constraints (parent IA, regulatory, technical)

If audience is unclear, run brand-discovery first. If content scope is unclear, run content-strategy first.


The framework: 6 layers

Information architecture has six layers. Each builds on the one below.

1. Mental models

Before structure, understand how the audience thinks about the domain.

  • What concepts do they group together naturally?
  • What words do they use? (Often different from what the company uses.)
  • What is the dominant frame of reference? (By task? By role? By topic? By time?)
  • What do they expect to find where, based on conventions in similar products?

Methods:

  • Card sorting (open or closed): Give the audience the content items, ask them to group them. Open card sorts surface natural groupings. Closed card sorts validate proposed groupings.
  • Tree testing: Give a proposed structure, ask users to find specific items. Surfaces where the structure breaks down.
  • First-click testing: Given a goal, where do users click first? If first clicks are wrong, the labels and structure are wrong.

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 261 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A b61e91c357c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

information-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (830 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 2,251 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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