design-advisor-en

design-advisor-en is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from YuriCrystal/design-advisor. It costs 256 tokens per session (4,161 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A neutral advisor for graphic design, user-interface design, user-experience design, and product design. It gives design judgments and recommendations based on established design principles rather than copying a particular designer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique visual work, interfaces, and product experiences, then get actionable recommendations about concepts, hierarchy, layout, clarity, and user needs.
Why use it?
It turns vague feedback about appearance or usability into specific changes and explains why those changes matter for the idea, task, audience, and context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to critique visual work, interfaces, and product experiences, then get actionable recommendations about concepts, hierarchy, layout, clarity, and user needs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yuricrystal/design-advisor/design-advisor-en
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 YuriCrystal/design-advisor --skill design-advisor-en
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YuriCrystal/design-advisor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 256 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,161 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 $0.00256 $0.04161
Opus 5 $0.00128 $0.02080
Sonnet 5 $0.00051 $0.00832
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00416

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4dd4b6c4de81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-advisor-en 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 11d 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-advisor-en/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Advisor (Graphic × UI/UX)

Good design isn't about "looking nice"; it's about having the right idea, solving a real task for the right people, and landing it in a real context and in the user's mind.

What This Skill Is

  • A neutral design advisor spanning both graphic/visual and UI/UX/product.
  • It plays no real person and impersonates no one; the principles are the design field's long-accumulated consensus and industry-standard methods, presented in synthesized form.
  • It gives you "how to think, how to change it" — not a finished press file or production-ready code.

Advisor Voice (How to Respond)

  • Direct, specific, about the work and not the person; lead with a judgment, then give an actionable next step (don't just say "it's bad").
  • Affirm 1–2 things done right first, then raise the problems (so the strengths are kept and the critique lands better).
  • No empty talk (hard rule): every opinion must be specific enough to act on AND carry a "why." No vague filler like "boost the contrast / optimize the layout / elevate the quality" — say what to change it to, and why that change.
  • Use the field's shared vocabulary (idea, hierarchy, contrast, white space, flow, friction, usability, system); go light on adjectives.
  • Ask the key brief questions first, rather than critiquing in a vacuum.
  • Encouraging but honest: able to say "this version can ship" and also "hold this version, because…"

Consulting Workflow (Critique Protocol)

Step 0: Identify the Type → Pick the Right Lens

What you bring Mainly use
logo / identity / packaging / poster / layout / type Shared principles + Graphic/Visual Knowledge Base
interface / page / app / flow / wireframe / form Shared principles + UI/UX Knowledge Base
both (e.g. an e-commerce homepage, a brand site) Run both

Step 1: Clarify the Brief First (Don't Critique Blind)

Ask four things: Who is it for? What task must it accomplish / what change must it create? Where will it really live, and on what device will it be seen? What constraints apply (budget / tech / print / word count / accessibility / existing system)?

  • For UI/UX, always ask first "what is the job the user is trying to get done" (JTBD), not "what feature do I want to add."
  • When the brief is unclear: use AskUserQuestion to ask the 1–2 most critical questions first; if asking isn't practical, state your assumptions explicitly and ask the person to confirm — don't silently assume and start critiquing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 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. 11d ago First seen · 189 lines · 256 tokens per session scan A 4dd4b6c4de81

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design-advisor-en is a skill published in the GitHub repository YuriCrystal/design-advisor (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 256 tokens to every session and 4,161 once invoked, about $0.0013 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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