Interface Design for Dashboards and Apps
holaboss-ai/holaOS
Pushes an agent past generic defaults when designing dashboards, admin panels, SaaS apps and tools, with attention to structure, type, navigation and how data is shown.
Deterministic design review for UI/UX on web and terminal screens: measure contrast, spacing, overlap, clipping and copy defects, then judge the rest.
Install Design QA
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill design-qa -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator design-qa --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa .claude/skills/design-qa && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "design-qa" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa into .claude/skills/design-qa/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-qa", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qaType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill design-qa -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator design-qa --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa .agents/skills/design-qa && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "design-qa" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa into .agents/skills/design-qa/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-qa", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill design-qa -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator design-qa --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa .cursor/skills/design-qa && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "design-qa" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa into .cursor/skills/design-qa/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-qa", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git --path local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill design-qa -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator design-qa --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa .gemini/skills/design-qa && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "design-qa" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa into .gemini/skills/design-qa/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-qa", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator design-qaInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill design-qa -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa .github/skills/design-qa && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "design-qa" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa into .github/skills/design-qa/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-qa", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill design-qa -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install damianvtran/local-operator design-qa --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa .opencode/skills/design-qa && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "design-qa" agent skill from https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator/tree/main/local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa into .opencode/skills/design-qa/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-qa", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
design-qa- GitHub stars
- 217
- Token cost
- ~729 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 397 words
- Files
- 4 (incl. references)
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Deterministic design review for UI/UX on web and terminal screens: measure contrast, spacing, overlap, clipping and copy defects, then judge the rest.
- Works in 5 steps: Get rendered frames, never source alone.… → Run the deterministic checks for the… → Capture a frame per matrix cell. Where… → …
- Reviewing a screen
- SKILL.md covers Lane 1: measure, Lane 2: judge, Matrix: states x viewports and Procedure, plus 2 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Design QA is an agent skill from damianvtran/local-operator. Deterministic design review for UI/UX on web and terminal screens: measure contrast, spacing, overlap, clipping and copy defects, then judge the rest. Use when reviewing a screen, dashboard, or interface's visual design.
Its SKILL.md is about 730 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `references/checks-copy.md`, `references/checks-tui.md` and `references/checks-web.md`).
It sits in Frontend & Design, covering UI design and Design review and critique. The repository describes itself as: An open-source AI agent hub for your own machine: build organizations of collaborating agents that message each other, run in the background around the clock, and share your… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Reviewing a screen
- Interfaces visual design
Example prompts
- “/design-qa”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Get rendered frames, never source alone. Web: drive the harness browser tool (background tab, logins intact; never install or script a…
- Run the deterministic checks for the surface; keep each check's real output.
- Capture a frame per matrix cell. Where anything animates, compare consecutive frames: a first frame that differs from the settled frame is…
- Form judgements against the brief and the states, not against taste.
- Report findings with severity and evidence. Where the round format uses D-prefixed ids (D1, D2, ...), keep them stable across rounds and…
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 05e4c97. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Design QA loads about 729 tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 397 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from damianvtran/local-operator at commit 05e4c97, republished under its MIT licence (© damianvtran). 397 words, ~729 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/design-qa/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- design-qa
- description
- Deterministic design review for UI/UX on web and terminal screens: measure contrast, spacing, overlap, clipping and copy defects, then judge the rest. Use when reviewing a screen, dashboard, or interface's visual design.
Design QA
A quality gate for user-visible interfaces, web or terminal. Two lanes, in order: measure, then judge. Every claim carries evidence.
Lane 1: measure
Run the deterministic checks for the surface before forming any opinion, and cite each number's actual source (computed style, bounding box, log line). Never report an unmeasured number; if you cannot measure it, say so.
- Web:
references/checks-web.md - Terminal:
references/checks-tui.md - Copy:
references/checks-copy.md
Lane 2: judge
Judge only what measurement cannot decide: hierarchy (does the eye land in the right place), flow (is the next step obvious), does the screen answer its own question, do the states tell the truth. Judgement stands on the lane 1 numbers. Where you must eyeball, say that you did.
Matrix: states x viewports
Cover every state the surface has, at narrow, standard, and wide. Themes and personalization axes the product supports (dark mode, display sizes) are extra columns.
| narrow | standard | wide | |
|---|---|---|---|
| loading | |||
| empty | |||
| error | |||
| populated |
For terminal UIs, "viewports" are terminal sizes; include the smallest width the product promises. A single happy-path screenshot is not coverage.
Procedure
- Get rendered frames, never source alone. Web: drive the harness
browsertool (background tab, logins intact; never install or script a browser engine). Terminal: drive the real app that loads the shipped styles, not a bare test host, and export with the app's own capture facility. - Run the deterministic checks for the surface; keep each check's real output.
- Capture a frame per matrix cell. Where anything animates, compare consecutive frames: a first frame that differs from the settled frame is motion the user sees.
- Form judgements against the brief and the states, not against taste.
- Report findings with severity and evidence. Where the round format uses D-prefixed ids (D1, D2, ...), keep them stable across rounds and verify fixes only on changed surfaces.
Show full SKILL.md (94 more words)Show less
Honest degrade
When a check cannot run (no browser tool, no render path), report: static-inspected only, unverified: <the checks that could not run>. Never let could-not-check read as a pass.
Red flags
- Installing or scripting a browser engine to get a frame; use the harness
browsertool or say frames are unavailable. - A finding with an eyeballed number ("about 12px apart").
- One viewport, one state, or one theme presented as coverage.
- Skipping lane 1 and judging from taste, or skipping lane 2 and reporting only metrics.
- Reviewing source and calling it a design review.
© damianvtran, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa of damianvtran/local-operator.
- SKILL.md
- references/checks-copy.md
- references/checks-tui.md
- references/checks-web.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 05e4c97
Compare with similar skills
Design QA next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design QA this skilldamianvtran/local-operator | 217 | — | ~729 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Interface Design for Dashboards and Appsholaboss-ai/holaOS | 11k | 3 repos | ~6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Tastemaker UI Designcodeswithroh/tastemaker | 444 | — | ~16k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| UI Aesthetics Judgmentkasonye/ui-aesthetics-skill | 383 | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Agentos UI UXSapienXai/AgentOS | 118 | — | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Distinctive UI Buildertw93/Waza | 7.2k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Design QA
What does Design QA do?
Deterministic design review for UI/UX on web and terminal screens: measure contrast, spacing, overlap, clipping and copy defects, then judge the rest. Design QA is an agent skill from damianvtran/local-operator. Deterministic design review for UI/UX on web and terminal screens: measure contrast, spacing, overlap, clipping and copy defects, then judge the rest.
When should I use Design QA?
Design QA fits situations like: reviewing a screen; interfaces visual design.
How do I install Design QA in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill design-qa -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa in damianvtran/local-operator) into .claude/skills/design-qa in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Design QA in Codex?
Run `npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill design-qa -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (local_operator/skills/builtin/design-qa in damianvtran/local-operator) into .agents/skills/design-qa in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Design QA in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add damianvtran/local-operator --skill design-qa -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/design-qa, .gemini/skills/design-qa, .github/skills/design-qa and .opencode/skills/design-qa in your project.
What does Design QA need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Design QA is instructions for the agent only.
Does Design QA access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Design QA safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Design QA use?
Design QA is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Design QA use?
About 729 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Design QA?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Design QA: Interface Design for Dashboards and Apps (holaboss-ai/holaOS, 11k stars), Tastemaker UI Design (codeswithroh/tastemaker, 444 stars), UI Aesthetics Judgment (kasonye/ui-aesthetics-skill, 383 stars) and Agentos UI UX (SapienXai/AgentOS, 118 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Design QA?
damianvtran (a GitHub user) maintains it in damianvtran/local-operator, which has 217 GitHub stars. The repository was last updated on October 11, 2026.
Source: damianvtran/local-operator on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.