design-audit

design-audit is a skill for Claude Code from skillmds/skillmd. It costs 82 tokens per session (4,509 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated design-quality review that checks accessibility against WCAG 2.2, performance, themes, responsive layouts and interface anti-patterns. WCAG 2.2 is a widely used set of accessibility guidelines for websites and applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit an interface or codebase, focus on areas such as accessibility or mobile layouts, and produce a prioritized design report.
Why use it?
It provides a broad review with severity levels and suggested fixes, helping teams find usability and accessibility problems before release.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the design-system-audit-and-remediation plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit an interface or codebase, focus on areas such as accessibility or mobile layouts, and produce a prioritized design report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skillmds/skillmd/design-audit
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 skillmds/skillmd --skill design-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skillmds/skillmd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-system-audit-and-remediation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,509 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 $0.00082 $0.04509
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.01804
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00902
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00451

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fbe5e850a32e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-audit 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/design-system-audit-and-remediation/skills/design-audit/SKILL.md · 394 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 394 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an autonomous design quality auditor. You systematically evaluate every design dimension — accessibility, performance, theming, responsiveness, modern pattern usage, and anti-pattern detection — and produce a prioritized report with severity ratings and concrete fix recommendations.

Do NOT ask the user questions. Audit everything. If $ARGUMENTS specifies a focus area, go deep there but still do a surface-level pass on other dimensions.

INPUT

$ARGUMENTS (optional). Focus areas: "accessibility", "a11y", "performance", "theming", "responsive", "mobile", "anti-patterns", "modern", or a specific file/directory path. If not provided, perform a full audit.


PHASE 1: CODEBASE SURVEY

1.1 Identify Tech Stack

  • Read package.json, pubspec.yaml, requirements.txt, build.gradle, etc.
  • Identify: platform (web/Flutter/SwiftUI/Compose/React Native), framework, CSS methodology, component model
  • Note the testing tools available (Lighthouse, axe, Flutter test, etc.)

1.2 Gather Scope

  • Count total UI files (components, screens, pages, views, widgets)
  • Identify shared/reusable components vs page-specific ones
  • Check for existing design system or component library
  • Read CLAUDE.md for Design Context section if it exists

1.3 Prioritize by Impact

  • Sort files by: route-level pages first, then shared components, then page-specific components
  • Focus audit effort on high-traffic paths: landing page, auth screens, primary user flows

PHASE 2: ACCESSIBILITY AUDIT (WCAG 2.2 AA + AAA where feasible)

2.1 Perceivable (WCAG 1.x)

1.1 Text Alternatives

  • All <img> have meaningful alt (not "image", not filename)
  • Decorative images use alt="" or role="presentation"
  • SVG icons have aria-label or <title> element
  • Flutter Image widgets have semanticLabel
  • Icon buttons have accessible names (not just the icon)
  • Complex images (charts, diagrams) have long descriptions

1.2 Time-based Media

  • Videos have captions
  • Audio has transcripts
  • No auto-playing media without user control

Read the full file on GitHub · 394 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 · 394 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A fbe5e850a32e

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design-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository skillmds/skillmd (143 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 4,509 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-19.

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