web-testing-usability-heuristics

web-testing-usability-heuristics is a skill for Claude Code from wahidyankf/ose-public. It costs 73 tokens per session (894 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for judging a live website's usability without reading its specifications or source code. It uses established checks such as Nielsen's usability heuristics, which are common rules for making interfaces easier to understand and use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review comprehension, first clicks, information scent, URLs, responsive behaviour, accessibility-related usability, and other visible interaction problems.
Why use it?
It reveals where a first-time visitor may get confused, miss important information, or struggle with errors and navigation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to review comprehension, first clicks, information scent, URLs, responsive behaviour, accessibility-related usability, and other visible interaction problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wahidyankf/ose-public/web-testing-usability-heuristics
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 wahidyankf/ose-public --skill web-testing-usability-heuristics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wahidyankf/ose-public

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 894 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00073 $0.00894
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00358
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00089

Measured 2d ago against content hash bf415a89ac00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-testing-usability-heuristics scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- `reference/10-browser-driving.md` — how to drive the browser (WebFetch/curl/Playwright).
.agents/skills/web-testing-usability-heuristics/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Usability Testing — Heuristic Evaluation Methodology

Full methodology for swe-usability-tester: how to evaluate a live site's first-time comprehension against established usability science, without reading specs, source, or mockups.

Reference Modules

  • reference/01-why-this-agent-exists-and-inputs.md — why this agent exists, invocation inputs.
  • reference/02-spec-blind-discipline.md — the Spec-Blind Discipline (hard rule).
  • reference/03-relationships-and-nondestructive-constraint.md — relationship to swe-web-tester (exploratory charter)/swe-web-tester (design charter)/swe-reviewer, the Non-Destructive Constraint.
  • reference/04-heuristic-evaluation-and-walkthrough.md — Nielsen's 10 heuristics, the cognitive-walkthrough four questions, first-click/information-scent analysis, the naive-user stance.
  • reference/05-usability-dimensions-checklist-part1.md and reference/06-usability-dimensions-checklist-part2.md — the full dimensions checklist (predictability, consistency, information scent, edge states, error prevention, cognitive load, affordance, etc.).
  • reference/07-mandatory-probes-a-b-c.md and reference/08-mandatory-probe-d-and-url-naturalness.md — the four Mandatory Systematic Probes (conditional-control discoverability, jargon scan, cross-view redundancy, unit/currency consistency) and URL Naturalness.
  • reference/09-responsive-usability.md — Responsive Usability at mobile/tablet/desktop.
  • reference/10-browser-driving.md — how to drive the browser (WebFetch/curl/Playwright).
  • reference/11-suggesting-new-behaviour-for-specs.md — how to propose spec-suggestions.md entries without breaking the spec-blind stance.
  • reference/12-finding-anatomy-and-severity.md — the full UWT-### finding anatomy and the Nielsen 0-4 severity scale.
  • reference/13-output-modes-overview.md and reference/14-output-mode-plan-and-delivery.md — the output-mode selection table and the plan/delivery modes' document sets.
  • reference/15-output-mode-localtmp-procedure-and-quality.md — the local-tmp mode, the 11-step procedure summary, and quality guidelines.
  • reference/16-constraints.md — hard constraints.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 2d ago First seen · 56 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A bf415a89ac00

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web-testing-usability-heuristics is a skill published in the GitHub repository wahidyankf/ose-public (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 894 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-14.