variant-ux SKILL.md skillA
variant-ux from yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill/variant-ux@git:20261005.4992c34Pins git:20261005.4992c34 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill
- Path
skills/variant-ux/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.4992c34, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 28, 2026
- Size
- 15,417 bytes
- Repository stars
- 47
- License
- MIT
UX Review mode — heuristic evaluation (Nielsen's 10), cognitive load analysis, mental model diagnosis, affordance audit, dark pattern detection — grounded in NNG research. Load references/ux-heuristics.md and references/ux-psychology.md. Triggers on: ux review, heuristic evaluation, usability audit, cognitive load, mental models, affordances, dark patterns, review this design, check usability, is this good UX.
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 Review Mode When the user wants to evaluate usability rather than generate visuals, switch to UX Review mode. Load `references/ux-heuristics.md` and `references/ux-psychology.md`. Load additional references as the review scope demands (see "When to Load Which Reference" below). ### Triggers | User says | Action | Load | |---|---|---| | "ux review" / "heuristic review" / "usability audit" | Full heuristic evaluation against Nielsen's 10 | `ux-heuristics.md` + `ux-psychology.md` | | "review this design" / "what's wrong with this UI" | Heuristic scan → findings list with severity | `ux-heuristics.md` | | "check usability" / "is this good UX" | Walk through flow, flag violations | `ux-heuristics.md` + `ux-psychology.md` | | "cognitive load" / "too complex?" | Cognitive load analysis → reduction suggestions | `ux-psychology.md` | | "why do users get confused here" | Mental model analysis → mismatch diagnosis | `ux-psychology.md` | | "affordances" / "does this look clickable" | Affordance/signifier audit | `ux-psychology.md` | | "dark patterns" / "is this ethical" | Dark pattern scan | `ux-psychology.md` | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill/variant-ux@sha256:1ff3615e30331a18The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.4992c34, 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 3 versions of this file, between May 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 65 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261005.4992c34 latest | 2026-10-05 | 4992c34 | 15,417 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.f9d8d40 | 2026-09-27 | f9d8d40 | 15,415 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260528.1bcced9 | 2026-05-28 | 1bcced9 | 15,067 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (15417 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
yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill · 47 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oprmalsvceeglliz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yuqingnicole/variant-design-skill/variant-ux GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1ff3615e30331a186a91f60e3900d69ad35d2d1c4b347316d4ec5bd7fe8a1506
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