// Audit and fill in the UX that works when things go wrong — the stuff AI skips. Invoke when the user asks for harden on their UI, or mentions 'harden' alongside design / UI / frontend work.
Use for UI design and implementation work to avoid generic AI-looking interfaces. Provides anti-slop rules, a required discovery phase before coding, and guidance for layout, typography, color, motion, accessibility, dashboards, tables, landing pages, theming, and polish. Trigger when editing UI code or reviewing and refining components, pages, screens, layouts, animations, responsive behavior, or design systems.
Use for UI design and implementation work to avoid generic AI-looking interfaces. Provides anti-slop rules, a required discovery phase before coding, and guidance for layout, typography, color, motion, accessibility, dashboards, tables, landing pages, theming, and polish. Trigger when editing UI code or reviewing and refining components, pages, screens, layouts, animations, responsive behavior, or design systems.
Write or update the project's durable design brief at .ui-craft/brief.md. Invoke when the user asks for brief on their UI, or mentions 'brief' alongside design / UI / frontend work.
Produce a scored heuristic critique of the UI using Nielsen's 10 + 6 design laws + optional persona walkthroughs. Outputs a machine-parseable scorecard. Invoke when the user asks for heuristic on their UI, or mentions 'heuristic' alongside design / UI / frontend work.
Technical UI audit — a11y, performance, responsive. Produces a prioritized findings table. Invoke when the user asks for audit on their UI, or mentions 'audit' alongside design / UI / frontend work.
UX critique — hierarchy, clarity, anti-slop. No code changes unless asked. Invoke when the user asks for critique on their UI, or mentions 'critique' alongside design / UI / frontend work.
| name | harden |
| description | Audit and fill in the UX that works when things go wrong — the stuff AI skips. Invoke when the user asks for harden on their UI, or mentions 'harden' alongside design / UI / frontend work. |
Context: this sub-skill is one lens of the broader ui-craft skill. If the ui-craft skill is also installed, read its SKILL.md first for Discovery + Anti-Slop + Craft Test, then apply the specific lens below.
Harden the UI at the target the user described for production. Load the ui-craft skill.
Coverage matrix — check every key surface:
— (em dash) for missing metrics, never N/A or null or 0 when the value is truly unknown.title tooltip, text-overflow: ellipsis, container queries for constrained regions. Test with a 120-character name.Knob-agnostic — correctness is not tunable. Run the full matrix regardless of CRAFT_LEVEL / MOTION_INTENSITY / VISUAL_DENSITY.
References to read: references/accessibility.md (keyboard + screen reader paths), references/copy.md (error and empty-state voice), references/motion.md Rendering Performance section (skeleton motion + reduced-motion).
Output: a per-surface checklist marking each of the 9 items as present / missing / partial. Then edit the code to fix what's missing. Print the Review Format table showing fixes. End with a "still at risk" list for anything you couldn't safely auto-fix (requires backend, requires design decision, requires translation files).