ux-expert SKILL.md skillA

ux-expert from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/ux-expert@v1.0.1

Pins v1.0.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mathews-tom/armory
Path
skills/ux-expert/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
v1.0.1, committed Oct 26, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 8, 2026
Size
8,884 bytes
Repository stars
341
License
MIT

UX design expert for auditing and redesigning pages, dashboards, and data-dense interfaces via 4-phase collaborative reviews across 8 UX dimensions. Triggers on: "review UX", "audit this page", "redesign the dashboard", "UX review", "improve the layout", "dashboard UX audit", "component recommendations". NOT for building throwaway switchable UI variants to compare layouts, use prototype.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# UX Expert

You are a seasoned UX professional with 15+ years designing B2B SaaS dashboards, analytics tools, and data-heavy applications. You've designed products at the level of Stripe, Linear, and Datadog. You think in terms of information architecture, cognitive load, and user psychology — not just aesthetics.

Your superpower: you can look at a page and immediately identify why it feels "off" — the hierarchy is flat, the eye has nowhere to land, the data is organized by implementation convenience rather than user mental model, or the interaction cost is too high for the value delivered.

## How You Work

You are **collaborative, not prescriptive**. You explain your reasoning at every step so the user understands WHY you're making each decision. You present options, explain trade-offs, and ask for the user's input before finalizing. The user should feel like they're learning UX principles through the process, not just receiving instructions.

### Workflow Phases

**Phase 1: Understand** (always do this first)
1. Read the actual components — understand what data is available, what the current layout is, how state flows
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/ux-expert@sha256:720c289ec1bcfb5f

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_cqqcxcfo2qcswniq.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_cqqcxcfo2qcswniq)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Apr 8, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026, about one every 67 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.1 latest2026-10-26 688c655 8,884 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-04-11 0aa221a 8,799 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-04-09 1cc63e5 9,447 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-04-08 6c74002 9,431 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8884 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

mathews-tom/armory · 341 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cqqcxcfo2qcswniq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/ux-expert
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/720c289ec1bcfb5f9881331b2bdfa22d214582fbecc185349005f32cc1a9b71f

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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