visual-testing

A method for checking a website’s appearance and layout with screenshots and page inspection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test mobile, tablet, and desktop layouts, compare pages with Figma designs, inspect page structure, and check for visual regressions.
Why use it?
It helps find visual bugs and changes that ordinary functional tests may miss, including problems at different screen sizes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the browser-devtools-mcp plugin — 7 skills, 2 commands, 6 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/serkan-ozal/browser-devtools-claude/visual-testing
Any agent
npx skills add serkan-ozal/browser-devtools-claude --skill visual-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/serkan-ozal/browser-devtools-claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install browser-devtools-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 commands, 6 agents, 2 MCP servers.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 565 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00032 $0.00565
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00056

Measured 3d ago against content hash a4ec9d198b35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visual-testing 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 3d 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/visual-testing/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visual Testing Skill

Perform visual testing and UI verification using screenshots and DOM inspection.

When to Use

This skill activates when:

  • User wants to verify UI appearance
  • User asks to compare page with design
  • User needs responsive design testing
  • User wants to check for visual regressions
  • User mentions UI bugs or styling issues

Capabilities

Screenshot Capture

  • Full page or element screenshots (content_take-screenshot) — selector or ref for element
  • Annotated screenshotsannotate: true overlays numbered labels [1],[2],… mapping to ARIA refs (e1,e2). Use annotateContent for headings, cursorInteractive for div/span buttons
  • PDF generation (content_save-as-pdf)

Important: Do not use screenshot to understand page structure. Call a11y_take-aria-snapshot first, then screenshot for visual verification.

Responsive Testing

  • Resize viewport (interaction_resize-viewport)
  • Test mobile, tablet, desktop breakpoints
  • Verify responsive behavior

Design Comparison

  • Compare with Figma designs (figma_compare-page-with-design)
  • Visual similarity analysis
  • Identify design deviations

DOM Inspection

  • Get HTML structure (content_get-as-html)
  • Check CSS classes and styles
  • Verify element presence and visibility

Viewport Presets

Device Width Height
Mobile S 320px 568px
Mobile M 375px 667px
Mobile L 425px 812px
Tablet 768px 1024px
Laptop 1366px 768px
Desktop 1920px 1080px

Testing Workflow

  1. Navigate: Go to page under test
  2. Wait: Network idle, page fully loaded
  3. ARIA snapshot first: Get refs (e1, e2, …) before screenshot
  4. Capture: Take baseline or annotated screenshot
  5. Resize: Test different viewports
  6. Interact: Use refs (e1) for clicks; test hover, modals
  7. Compare: Check against expected design
  8. Document: Report visual issues

Common Checks

  • Element visibility at breakpoints
  • Text overflow and truncation
  • Image aspect ratios
  • Color and typography consistency
  • Spacing and alignment
  • Interactive state styling

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 3d ago First seen · 73 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A a4ec9d198b35

Subscribe to this mod's changes

visual-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository serkan-ozal/browser-devtools-claude (8 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 565 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 2026-08-31.

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