Extract Design
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Inventory and prioritise accumulated design inconsistencies across a product.
Install Design Debt Audit
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-debt-audit -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills design-debt-audit --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/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit .claude/skills/design-debt-audit && 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-debt-audit" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit into .claude/skills/design-debt-audit/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-debt-audit", 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/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-ops/skills/design-debt-auditType 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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-debt-audit -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills design-debt-audit --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit .agents/skills/design-debt-audit && 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-debt-audit" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit into .agents/skills/design-debt-audit/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-debt-audit", 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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-debt-audit -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills design-debt-audit --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit .cursor/skills/design-debt-audit && 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-debt-audit" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit into .cursor/skills/design-debt-audit/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-debt-audit", 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/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git --path design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit--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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-debt-audit -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills design-debt-audit --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit .gemini/skills/design-debt-audit && 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-debt-audit" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit into .gemini/skills/design-debt-audit/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-debt-audit", 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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills design-debt-auditInstalls 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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-debt-audit -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit .github/skills/design-debt-audit && 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-debt-audit" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit into .github/skills/design-debt-audit/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-debt-audit", 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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-debt-audit -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills design-debt-audit --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit .opencode/skills/design-debt-audit && 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-debt-audit" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit into .opencode/skills/design-debt-audit/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-debt-audit", 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-debt-audit- GitHub stars
- 2.9k
- Used in
- 1 other repo
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 588 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 107
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Inventory and prioritise accumulated design inconsistencies across a product.
- Works in 5 steps: Scope and Inventory → Classify Debt → Quantify → …
- Drift has built up over time
- SKILL.md covers What You Do, What Counts as Design Debt, Audit Process and Debt Register, plus 2 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Design Debt Audit is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Inventory and prioritise accumulated design inconsistencies across a product. Use when drift has built up over time. For token coverage specifically use design-token-audit (designer-toolkit); for WCAG gaps use accessibility-audit (design-systems).
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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 Accessibility, Design systems and Design tokens. 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
- Drift has built up over time
- Tasks that involve Accessibility
- Tasks that involve Design systems
Example prompts
- “/design-debt-audit”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
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
Design Debt Audit loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 67 tokens; SKILL.md has 588 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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills at commit 9a6930c, republished under its MIT licence (© Owl-Listener). 588 words, ~1,157 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/design-debt-audit/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- design-debt-audit
- description
- Inventory and prioritise accumulated design inconsistencies across a product. Use when drift has built up over time. For token coverage specifically use `design-token-audit` (designer-toolkit); for WCAG gaps use `accessibility-audit` (design-systems).
Design Debt Audit
You are an expert in systematically identifying and triaging design debt before it becomes structural.
What You Do
You conduct design debt audits that surface inconsistencies, outdated patterns, accessibility gaps, and structural problems — and produce a prioritized remediation plan that teams can act on.
What Counts as Design Debt
Design debt is any gap between the current state of the product and the standard it should meet. Categories:
Visual Inconsistency Debt
- Components that exist in the product but deviate from the design system (wrong color, spacing, type)
- Multiple visual treatments for the same interaction (three different button styles doing the same thing)
- Legacy UI that predates the current design system and hasn't been updated
Structural Debt
- Patterns that were designed for an earlier version of the product and don't scale to current complexity
- Navigation that has been patched with new items and no longer reflects the underlying IA
- Features that were added without holistic design, creating isolated islands in the product
Accessibility Debt
- Known WCAG violations that haven't been fixed
- Components that work visually but fail with assistive technology
- Missing keyboard navigation, focus management, or screen reader support
Documentation Debt
- Components in use that aren't in the design system
- Specs that don't match implementation
- Design decisions that exist only in someone's head
Technical/Implementation Debt (design-relevant)
- Designs that were implemented with hardcoded values instead of tokens
- Components that were built differently across platforms (iOS, Android, web) without a documented reason
Audit Process
1. Scope and Inventory
- Define audit scope: full product, one feature area, or one platform
- Screenshot every screen/state in scope
- Catalog by screen type, component type, or user flow
2. Classify Debt
For each screen or component, tag:
- Severity: Critical (accessibility violation, major inconsistency) / Moderate (visual inconsistency, outdated pattern) / Minor (polish, edge case)
- Category: Visual / Structural / Accessibility / Documentation / Implementation
- Frequency: How many times does this issue appear?
- Effort to fix: Low / Medium / High (rough engineering estimate)
3. Quantify
- Total instances per issue type
- Estimated user reach (how many users encounter each debt item?)
- Business risk (does this debt create compliance, legal, or trust risk?)
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4. Prioritize
Score debt items using: Severity × Frequency / Effort Surface a short list of high-priority items — the debt that's causing the most harm per unit of effort to fix.
5. Remediation Plan
- Quick wins: low-effort, high-frequency inconsistencies (token fixes, label updates)
- Structural projects: require design and engineering investment; schedule into roadmap
- Accessibility fixes: prioritize Critical violations; create a rolling fix backlog for Moderate
- Write-off items: debt that exists in low-traffic areas and will be resolved by a planned redesign — document and defer
Debt Register
Maintain a living document (not a one-time audit) tracking:
- Issue description
- Category and severity
- Affected screens/components
- Status (open, in progress, resolved, deferred)
- Owner
- Target resolution (sprint or milestone) Review the register quarterly; update severity as the product changes.
Common Findings
- Navigation items added without IA review → structural nav debt
- Features shipped under deadline without design system components → visual inconsistency debt
- Third-party integrations with their own UI → visual inconsistency + accessibility debt
- Rapid growth in content types not anticipated in original layout → structural debt
Best Practices
- Run a design debt audit before starting a major redesign — it defines the actual scope of work
- Separate audit from remediation; auditing is research, not a fix sprint
- Include engineering in severity and effort estimation — designers often underestimate implementation complexity
- Track debt reduction as a metric; use it to advocate for dedicated cleanup capacity in roadmap planning
- Prevent accumulation: include "does this create design debt?" as a question in design review checklists
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Files
Just SKILL.md in design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit 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 Design Debt Audit
What does Design Debt Audit do?
Inventory and prioritise accumulated design inconsistencies across a product. Design Debt Audit is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Inventory and prioritise accumulated design inconsistencies across a product.
When should I use Design Debt Audit?
Design Debt Audit fits situations like: drift has built up over time; tasks that involve Accessibility; tasks that involve Design systems.
How do I install Design Debt Audit in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-debt-audit -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .claude/skills/design-debt-audit in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Design Debt Audit in Codex?
Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-debt-audit -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (design-ops/skills/design-debt-audit in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .agents/skills/design-debt-audit in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Design Debt Audit 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 design-debt-audit -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-debt-audit, .gemini/skills/design-debt-audit, .github/skills/design-debt-audit and .opencode/skills/design-debt-audit in your project.
What does Design Debt Audit need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Design Debt Audit is instructions for the agent only.
Does Design Debt Audit 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 Debt Audit 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 Debt Audit use?
Design Debt Audit 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 Debt Audit use?
About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k 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 Design Debt Audit?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Design Debt Audit: Extract Design (Manavarya09/design-extract, 4.2k stars), Material Design 3 UI/UX Guide (skydashnet/material-design-3-ui-skill, 138 stars), UI Component Spec Designer (plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills, 1.6k stars) and UI Design System (try-works/role-model, 117 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Design Debt Audit?
Owl-Listener (a GitHub user) maintains it in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which has 2,871 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.