design-review

design-review is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,995 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review process for evaluating and improving an existing interface before it ships. It examines first impressions, visual hierarchy, layout, and the purpose of each page section.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit pages or screens, prioritize fixes, compare an interface with reference products, and improve AI-generated designs for production.
Why use it?
It helps identify which design problems matter most and prevents an interface from being released before its main action and content are clear.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit pages or screens, prioritize fixes, compare an interface with reference products, and improve AI-generated designs for production.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/design-review
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 whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill design-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,995 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00053 $0.01995
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00997
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00199

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3a70470c741d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-review 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 12d 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/design-review/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Review

The quality gate for visual design. This skill is for evaluating and systematically improving existing UI — not generating new designs. Use it to audit pages, identify what to fix first, and elevate AI-generated output to production quality.

For visual principles (hierarchy, whitespace, composition), reference the beautify skill. For specific AI-generated antipatterns, reference beautify/AI-SLOP-FIXES.md. For component and layout implementation, reference ui-patterns.


Audit Methodology

Systematically evaluate any page or screen using this process:

1. Five-Second First Impression

Squint at the page (or blur your eyes) and note what your eye lands on first. If it is not the primary action or primary content, visual hierarchy is broken — that becomes P0.

Ask:

  • What is the single most important thing the user should do on this page?
  • Is that thing the most visually prominent element?
  • Can you identify the page's purpose within two seconds?

2. Systematic Page Walkthrough

Work top-to-bottom, left-to-right through the page. For each section:

  • Identify its purpose (navigation, content, action, status)
  • Check whether it competes with the primary focal point
  • Note specific issues with exact locations ("the secondary button in the hero section is the same weight as the primary CTA"), not vague complaints ("buttons feel off")

3. Categorize by Priority

Every issue gets a priority level. This ordering is critical — fixing P0 issues often resolves multiple downstream problems automatically.

4. Fix in Order

Apply fixes one priority category at a time. Reassess after each category before moving to the next.


Priority Framework

What to fix first for maximum visual impact.

P0: Visual Hierarchy

If the eye does not know where to go, nothing else matters. This is the single highest-leverage fix.

Check:

  • One clear focal point per page/section — not two competing elements
  • Primary CTA is the most visually prominent interactive element (largest, highest contrast, most saturated)
  • Secondary actions are visually subordinate (outlined, ghost, or text-only buttons)
  • Heading sizes create clear levels — page title is noticeably larger than section headings, which are noticeably larger than body text
  • Decorative elements do not compete with functional elements
  • Navigation is visually quieter than page content

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 179 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 3a70470c741d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,995 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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