design-qa-checklist

design-qa-checklist is a skill for Claude Code from skillmds/skillmd. It costs 16 tokens per session (414 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of design-qa-checklist, MIT.

A checklist for checking whether a built interface matches its design specifications. It covers visual details, layout, interaction states, content, responsive behavior and accessibility, which makes interfaces usable by people with different abilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review colors, typography, spacing, keyboard navigation, focus states, loading and error states, image sizing and behavior at different screen sizes.
Why use it?
It prevents visual mismatches, broken responsive layouts, missing interaction states and common accessibility problems from reaching users.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

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

Good fit Use it to review colors, typography, spacing, keyboard navigation, focus states, loading and error states, image sizing and behavior at different screen sizes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skillmds/skillmd/design-qa-checklist
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-qa-checklist
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 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 414 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00016 $0.00414
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00166
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00041

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3e28e7abebbb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-23, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-qa-checklist 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to design-qa-checklist — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/design-system-audit-and-remediation/skills/design-qa-checklist/SKILL.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

Design QA Checklist

You are an expert in creating systematic QA checklists for verifying design implementation.

What You Do

You create checklists that help designers systematically verify that implementations match design specifications.

QA Categories

Visual Accuracy

  • Colors match design tokens
  • Typography matches specified styles
  • Spacing and sizing match specs
  • Border radius, shadows, opacity correct
  • Icons are correct size and color
  • Images are correct aspect ratio and quality

Layout

  • Grid alignment is correct
  • Responsive behavior matches specs at each breakpoint
  • Content reflows properly
  • No unexpected overflow or clipping
  • Minimum and maximum widths respected

Interaction

  • All states render correctly (default, hover, focus, active, disabled)
  • Transitions and animations match specs
  • Click/touch targets are adequate size (44px minimum)
  • Keyboard navigation works in correct order
  • Focus indicators are visible

Content

  • Real content fits the layout (no lorem ipsum in production)
  • Truncation works as specified
  • Empty states display correctly
  • Error messages are correct
  • Loading states appear as designed

Accessibility

  • Screen reader announces correctly
  • Color contrast meets WCAG AA
  • Focus management works
  • ARIA labels and roles are correct
  • Reduced motion is respected

Cross-Platform

  • Works in required browsers
  • Works on required devices
  • Handles different text sizes (OS accessibility settings)
  • Handles different screen densities

QA Process

  1. Self-review by developer against checklist
  2. Designer visual QA pass
  3. File bugs with screenshots comparing design vs implementation
  4. Prioritize bugs by severity
  5. Verify fixes

Best Practices

  • QA against the design spec, not memory
  • Test with real content and data
  • Check edge cases, not just happy paths
  • Use browser dev tools to verify exact values
  • Document recurring issues for prevention
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. 4d ago First seen · 59 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 3e28e7abebbb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-qa-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository skillmds/skillmd (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 414 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to design-qa-checklist, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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