ux-advisor

ux-advisor is a skill for Claude Code from tom-barkan/ux-advisor-plugin. It costs 178 tokens per session (2,878 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided UX and UI problem-solving workflow that first studies your codebase and context, then compares patterns from major design systems in an interactive HTML page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a specific interface problem, review the current frontend and styling setup, compare visual solutions, and plan implementation.
Why use it?
It gives you several researched interface directions while accounting for the platform, theme, and existing experience of your project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the ux-advisor plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate a specific interface problem, review the current frontend and styling setup, compare visual solutions, and plan implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tom-barkan/ux-advisor-plugin/ux-advisor
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 tom-barkan/ux-advisor-plugin --skill ux-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tom-barkan/ux-advisor-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ux-advisor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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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 178 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,878 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 $0.00178 $0.02878
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.01439
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00576
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00288

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9ade8060b072, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ux-advisor 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/ux-advisor/SKILL.md · 283 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 283 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The user has a UX/UI problem they need solved. You are the orchestrator — you manage the conversation with the user and delegate heavy lifting to specialized subagents. This keeps things fast and thorough.

The UX problem

$ARGUMENTS


Phase 1: Discovery

This phase runs in the main conversation — you need to interact with the user directly.

1a: Scan the codebase (subagent)

While you prepare your questions, spawn an Explore subagent in the background to scan the codebase for context:

Subagent prompt: "Analyze this codebase for UX-relevant context. Find and report:
1. Frontend framework (check package.json, imports, build config)
2. Component library in use (MUI, Radix, shadcn, Ant Design, Chakra, etc.)
3. Styling approach (CSS modules, Tailwind, styled-components, SCSS, etc.)
4. Existing design tokens, theme files, or style configurations
5. Current implementation of [the feature in question] if it exists
6. Any existing UI patterns or component conventions used in the project
Report all findings in a structured summary."

1b: Interview the user

While the codebase scan runs in the background, ask the user clarifying questions. Tailor your questions to the problem — don't ask every question, just the ones that matter:

  • Platform & device targets — Web, mobile (iOS/Android), desktop? Responsive or fixed?
  • Design theme & brand — Dark/light mode? Brand colors? Existing design system or Figma file?
  • Current experience — URL, screenshot, or file showing what exists now? What's not working?
  • Users — Technical or non-technical? Frequency of use? Accessibility requirements?
  • Scale & data — How much data? Edge cases (empty, thousands of items, long text)?
  • Constraints — Offline support, RTL, performance budget, must match existing patterns?

When the codebase scan completes, incorporate its findings. Confirm assumptions with the user (e.g., "I can see you're using React + Tailwind with shadcn/ui — is that correct?").

Read the full file on GitHub · 283 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. 8d ago First seen · 283 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A 9ade8060b072

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ux-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository tom-barkan/ux-advisor-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 178 tokens to every session and 2,878 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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