design-visual-qa

design-visual-qa is a skill for Claude Code from ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo. It costs 124 tokens per session (1,471 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A visual regression checker that takes website screenshots at selected screen sizes and compares them with earlier versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before and after refactors or deployments, to compare browsers and screen sizes, and to produce a manual checklist when no browser renderer is available.
Why use it?
Small layout or styling changes can break a page without causing code errors. Screenshot comparisons show whether the rendered appearance changed unexpectedly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the designer-pro-and-seo plugin — 41 skills, 14 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it before and after refactors or deployments, to compare browsers and screen sizes, and to produce a manual checklist when no browser renderer is available.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo
Claude Code
/plugin install designer-pro-and-seo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designer-pro-and-seo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 14 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,471 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 $0.00124 $0.01471
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00736
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00147

Measured 12d ago against content hash e0c0acfda187, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-visual-qa 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-visual-qa/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

design-visual-qa

Family: design Status: Stable

Purpose

Visual regression for the rendered surface — the visual analog of seo-drift. Captures snapshots at multiple viewports and compares them against prior baselines to catch unintended rendering changes. It is tool-aware: rendering uses the bundled, free Playwright extension; comparison uses Claude's vision by default (and an exact pixel-diff CLI for precise deltas when one is installed). Without a browser it can't capture pixels — so it delivers a structured manual visual-QA checklist and the single step to enable the free renderer, rather than failing.

Use cases: pre/post refactor, pre/post deploy (staging vs prod), component/token updates, and cross-browser drift.

Triggers

  • "visual qa" / "visual regression"
  • "screenshot diff" / "pixel diff"
  • "did anything change visually"
  • "compare against baseline"
  • "before and after screenshots"

Inputs

  • Target URL(s) or local build paths
  • Viewports (default: 375, 768, 1280, 1920)
  • Browser(s) (default: chromium; optional firefox, webkit)
  • Baseline mode: capture | diff | both
  • Threshold for "changed" (pixel-diff % when an exact differ is present; otherwise a qualitative materiality call)

Steps

  1. Detect the renderer. Confirm the Playwright MCP is connected, then run the capability probe to see if an exact differ (odiff/pixelmatch via npx) is available:
    python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/workflow/capability_probe.py"    # use `py` on Windows if python3 is absent; in PowerShell the variable is $env:CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT
    
  2. Capture. For each (URL, viewport, browser): load, wait for network idle + fonts + animations settled, then full-page screenshot.
  3. Baseline vs diff.
    • capture: save baselines to visual-qa/baselines/ in the user's workspace.
    • diff: compare each shot to its baseline. Exact differ present → pixel-delta %
      • highlighted diff image. Otherwise → Claude-vision comparison reporting the specific regions/elements that changed and whether each looks intentional.
  4. Aggregate which pages/viewports drifted and by how much (or how materially). Grade each change against the four axes (hierarchy, rhythm, contrast, restraint) and the severity ladder in references/design-visual-qa/visual-qa-rubric.md — a large delta can be a deliberate improvement, while a tiny delta that drops text below AA or hides a focus ring is a critical regression.
  5. Report which tier ran (per the plugin's capability-tier cascade, references/CAPABILITY-TIERS.md: Tier 1/2 = Playwright render + exact-differ-or- Claude-vision compare; Tier 4 = no browser, guided checklist) and, if no browser was available, the one step to enable it (connect the bundled Playwright extension).

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 12d ago First seen · 100 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A e0c0acfda187

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design-visual-qa is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,471 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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