Agent skill

Card Sort Analysis

by Owl-Listener in Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Analyse open or closed card sort results into a proposed grouping and label set.

MITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Card Sort Analysis

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill card-sort-analysis -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills card-sort-analysis --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-research/skills/card-sort-analysis .claude/skills/card-sort-analysis && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
card-sort-analysis
GitHub stars
2.9k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~287 tokens
SKILL.md length
118 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
107
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Analyse open or closed card sort results into a proposed grouping and label set.

  • Works in 7 steps: Understand the study: Confirm… → Analyze groupings: Identify common… → Create a similarity matrix: Show how… → …
  • Tasks that involve UX design
  • SKILL.md covers Context and Instructions
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Card Sort Analysis is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Analyse open or closed card sort results into a proposed grouping and label set. Use after running a sort study. For turning that evidence into a full structure, use information-architecture (ux-strategy).

Its SKILL.md is about 290 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering UX design. The repository describes itself as: Designer Skills Collection: agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design — from research to systems, UI, interaction, and delivery. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve UX design

Example prompts

  • “/card-sort-analysis”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Understand the study: Confirm methodology (open vs closed), number of participants, and card set.
  2. Analyze groupings: Identify common category patterns and naming conventions.
  3. Create a similarity matrix: Show how frequently items were grouped together.
  4. Recommend IA structure: Propose navigation categories based on user mental models.
  5. Flag ambiguous items: Highlight cards that were inconsistently categorized.
  6. Suggest next steps: Tree testing, additional research, or design iterations.
  7. Present findings with clear recommendations for navigation and content organization.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a6930c. 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

Card Sort Analysis loads about 287 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 118 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~57
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~287

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills at commit 9a6930c, republished under its MIT licence (© Owl-Listener). 118 words, ~287 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/card-sort-analysis/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
card-sort-analysis
description
Analyse open or closed card sort results into a proposed grouping and label set. Use after running a sort study. For turning that evidence into a full structure, use `information-architecture` (ux-strategy).

Card Sort Analysis

Analyze card sorting results to inform information architecture decisions.

Context

You are a UX researcher analyzing card sort data for $ARGUMENTS. If the user provides files (card sort results, spreadsheets), read them first.

Instructions

  1. Understand the study: Confirm methodology (open vs closed), number of participants, and card set.
  2. Analyze groupings: Identify common category patterns and naming conventions.
  3. Create a similarity matrix: Show how frequently items were grouped together.
  4. Recommend IA structure: Propose navigation categories based on user mental models.
  5. Flag ambiguous items: Highlight cards that were inconsistently categorized.
  6. Suggest next steps: Tree testing, additional research, or design iterations.
  7. Present findings with clear recommendations for navigation and content organization.

© Owl-Listener, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in design-research/skills/card-sort-analysis of Owl-Listener/designer-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a6930c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Card Sort Analysis

What does Card Sort Analysis do?

Analyse open or closed card sort results into a proposed grouping and label set. Card Sort Analysis is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Analyse open or closed card sort results into a proposed grouping and label set.

When should I use Card Sort Analysis?

Card Sort Analysis fits situations like: tasks that involve UX design.

How do I install Card Sort Analysis in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill card-sort-analysis -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (design-research/skills/card-sort-analysis in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .claude/skills/card-sort-analysis in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Card Sort Analysis in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill card-sort-analysis -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (design-research/skills/card-sort-analysis in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .agents/skills/card-sort-analysis in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Card Sort Analysis 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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill card-sort-analysis -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/card-sort-analysis, .gemini/skills/card-sort-analysis, .github/skills/card-sort-analysis and .opencode/skills/card-sort-analysis in your project.

What does Card Sort Analysis need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Card Sort Analysis is instructions for the agent only.

Does Card Sort Analysis 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 Card Sort Analysis 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 Card Sort Analysis use?

Card Sort Analysis 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 Card Sort Analysis use?

About 287 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Card Sort Analysis?

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Who maintains Card Sort Analysis?

Owl-Listener (a GitHub user) maintains it in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which has 2,854 GitHub stars. The repository holds 107 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 5, 2026.

Source: Owl-Listener/designer-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.