cognitive-interface-audit SKILL.md skillA
cognitive-interface-audit from karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/cognitive-interface-audit@git:20260926.35dafddPins git:20260926.35dafdd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills
- Path
plugins/mad-scientist-skills/skills/cognitive-interface-audit/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260926.35dafdd, committed Sep 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 29, 2026
- Size
- 82,509 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Comprehensive cognitive interface audit with two modes and a single tier. Planning mode designs task models, user expertise mapping, and error tolerance strategy. Audit mode evaluates mental model alignment (Norman's Gulfs), consistency (Gestalt), error tolerance (Wood 7-layer defense), cognitive load (NASA-TLX, Dual-Process), visual grounding (Gergle), trust calibration (Lee & See), data visualization integrity (Kirk, Cleveland & McGill, Brewer ColorBrewer palette enforcement), ecological…
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
# Cognitive Interface Audit A comprehensive cognitive interface audit with two modes and a single tier: **Modes:** - **Planning** (before UI exists) — task model design, user expertise mapping, error tolerance strategy, information architecture - **Audit** (on existing UI) — mental model alignment, consistency, error tolerance, cognitive load, visual grounding, accessibility **Single tier:** Unlike security auditing, cognitive interface evaluation is methodology-based (GOMS analysis, heuristic evaluation, NASA-TLX scoring), not tool-licensed. No paid software is required. The value is in the analytical framework, not the scanner. **Core question:** "Does the interface think the way the user thinks?" ## Academic foundations This skill synthesizes seven research threads into a single audit methodology: …
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How to install
mdr add karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/cognitive-interface-audit@sha256:8f033ea09e089108The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260926.35dafdd, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 29, 2026 and Sep 26, 2026, about one every 45 days.
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| git:20260926.35dafdd latest | 2026-09-26 | 35dafdd | 82,509 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260416.562aab0 | 2026-04-16 | 562aab0 | 82,496 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260408.0324348 | 2026-04-08 | 0324348 | 78,452 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260331.dc11d83 | 2026-03-31 | dc11d83 | 74,008 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260329.f91268f | 2026-03-29 | f91268f | 71,179 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-01 · branch main
API
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