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How to use the Better Interface Review agent skill
Updated · written with AI from the project's own documentation and checked against our catalogue data
The better-interface skill is an agent skill that reviews a screen, a flow or a whole interface across accessibility, layout, writing, typography, color and visual polish, then returns one ranked report. It is aimed at front-end developers and designers who want a structured audit before release. After this guide you will know what the skill does, how to install it, how to ask for a review and what it needs to run properly.
Better Interface Reviewjakubkrehel/skills · MIT Download the skill Quick start
- 1Download the ZIP. Download the skill ZIP from this page.
- 2Unzip into a skills folder. Unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/ for personal use or into a project's .claude/skills/ folder for one project.
- 3Or upload in the Claude apps. In the Claude apps, go to Settings → Capabilities → Skills and upload the skill.
- 4Install the sibling skills. Make the six better-* sibling skills available, since the review depends on them.
- 5Ask for a review. Describe the screen, flow or interface in plain language and ask for a review.
- 6Run interface-review for changes. For uncommitted work, branches or pull requests, start interface-review yourself.
- 7Read the ranked report. Check the coverage table first, then work through findings by severity.
What an agent skill is and what this one makes the agent do
An agent skill is a folder of instructions that an AI agent loads when a request matches the skill's description. This one is named better-interface and its description reads: reviews a screen, flow or whole interface across accessibility, layout, writing, typography, color and UI polish, and returns one ranked report.
The skill owns orchestration only. It hands each area to a specialised sibling skill: better-accessibility, better-layout, better-writing, better-typography, better-colors and better-ui. It then collects their evidence and produces one ranked table of findings.
- Every finding cites a file and line and shows the current code.
- Severe issues such as unlabelled controls or keyboard traps are always ranked high.
- Empty, loading, error and narrow-width states are covered where they exist.
- It does not review uncommitted changes, branches or pull requests.
Install the better-interface skill
Download the ZIP for the skill from the page you are reading. Then choose one of two locations. For personal use across projects, unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/. For a single project, unzip it into that project's .claude/skills/ folder.
If you use the Claude apps, you can instead upload the skill under Settings → Capabilities → Skills.
- Personal install: ~/.claude/skills/
- Project install: the project's .claude/skills/ folder
- Claude apps: Settings → Capabilities → Skills, then upload
~/.claude/skills/Install the sibling skills it depends on
better-interface does not work alone. It depends on six other better-* skills: better-accessibility, better-layout, better-writing, better-typography, better-colors and better-ui. These are not included in the files reviewed for this page, so you need to make them available separately.
If a domain's skill is missing, the agent marks that domain Not reviewed and continues with the others. It will not recreate those rules from memory.
Trigger the skill with a natural request
You do not need a special command. Describe the screen, flow or interface you want reviewed in plain language. The agent infers the scope from your request and the current workspace, and states the resolved scope in its output.
If the scope is too large to inspect credibly, the agent narrows it to one complete flow, usually the one your request centres on or the entry path every user must pass through, and states what it excluded.
- Review the checkout screen for accessibility and layout problems before release.
- Audit the sign-up flow for copy, typography and color issues.
- Check the whole settings area of this app against the better-* rules.
- Review the empty and error states of the dashboard.
Know what the skill will not review
Requests about uncommitted changes, a branch, a pull request or a commit range are change reviews. The better-interface skill will not resolve these itself. It asks you to run interface-review, a separate skill that you must start manually.
Subjective style feedback is also out of scope. The skill is designed to ignore density, radius or voice preferences that are not rule violations.
- Change reviews: run interface-review yourself.
- Style preferences that break no rule are not reported as findings.
Read the report
The report opens with the scope, the stack and any project convention documents the agent found, then a coverage table showing each domain as Clear, as a findings count or as Not reviewed. Findings follow in one table, ordered by severity and then by how many places they reach.
Severity uses three levels. HIGH blocks a task, misleads the user, hides content or controls, risks data loss or creates a repeated systemic failure. MEDIUM meaningfully harms comprehension, efficiency, adaptability or consistency. LOW is isolated polish with limited task impact. The report is capped at 15 findings.
- Columns: Severity, Domain, Location, Before, After, Why.
- Items marked Not verified were not checked at runtime and are not findings.
- Escalation triggers such as a control with no accessible name are always HIGH.
What people use it for
- A front-end developer audits a login flow for unlabelled controls and keyboard traps before a release.
- A designer checks a dashboard's contrast, copy and typography against consistent rules.
- A team collects evidence-backed findings with file and line references to assign as fixes.
- A developer reviews the empty and error states of a settings area that they have not yet tested in a narrow viewport.
Frequently asked questions
Is the better-interface skill free?
The skill is published under the MIT licence. The source does not mention pricing, so check the licence and the page you downloaded from for terms.
What do I need to run better-interface?
You need the six sibling better-* skills, which are not included in the reviewed files, and the separate interface-review skill for change reviews. You also need a project workspace the agent can read, and the project's own preview or test commands if you ask the agent to verify behaviour.
Where do I put the skill folder?
Unzip the downloaded ZIP into ~/.claude/skills/ for personal use, or into a project's .claude/skills/ folder for one project. In the Claude apps you can upload it under Settings → Capabilities → Skills.
Why won't better-interface review my branch or pull request?
Change reviews are handled by interface-review, which is user-invoked. better-interface asks you to run it and does not guess the diff itself.
Does the skill run scripts or use the network?
The skill runs scripts and may run the project's own preview or test commands when asked to verify behaviour. It does not use the network, according to the listing.
How does better-interface compare with a general AI code review?
It is narrower and evidence-based. It routes each area to a specialised skill, cites file and line for every finding, and ignores taste-only feedback instead of giving general style opinions.
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Our verdict
Use better-interface if you are a front-end developer or designer who wants a structured accessibility and UI audit of a page or flow with file and line evidence before release. Pick something else if you need change-scoped reviews without running a separate skill, or if you want general style feedback, since the skill deliberately ignores preferences that break no rule.
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