# ui-verification

Executes targeted browser probes for focus traversal, hit targets, layout shifts, and network failures with runtime measurements.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 359 installs · ★ 163
- Author: mblode
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mblode/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/ui-verification/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ui-verification

## What it does

Unlike static code inspections, this skill drives a browser session using Playwright or Chrome DevTools. It measures actual rendered geometry: clickable touch targets including pseudo-elements, keyboard navigation via Tab traversal in dialogs, and text overflow at 320px viewports with elongated strings.

Probes cover axe-core accessibility scans, runtime console errors, hydration mismatches, and synthetic API failures returning 500 or empty payloads. It attributes layout shift and Web Vitals entries directly to DOM elements. Running performance probes against a development server is discouraged because dev-mode measurements reflect bundler overhead rather than user experience.

The skill isolates reproduction and verification from severity grading, leaving release decisions to audit tools. If a route cannot boot or lacks reachable URLs and Storybook stories, the run marks checks as `unknown` instead of passing them.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill ui-verification -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/ui-verification/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/ui-verification/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill ui-verification -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/ui-verification/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill ui-verification -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/ui-verification/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mblode/agent-skills ui-verification
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/ui-verification/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill ui-verification -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mblode/agent-skills --path skills/ui-verification
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/ui-verification/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill ui-verification -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mblode/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/ui-verification/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Measure effective interactive hit target sizes on live pages
- Audit keyboard focus traps and focus-ring visibility across dialogs
- Simulate 500 server responses and empty data payloads in the UI
- Detect horizontal overflow on mobile viewports down to 320px

## Example prompts
- Verify this route in the browser and inspect interactive target sizes
- Reproduce the keyboard focus trap issue in the settings modal
- Re-measure layout shift after applying the UI fix on /checkout

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: ui-verification
description: Runs scoped browser probes for focus, hit targets, overflow, themes, request failures, and performance attribution, with evidence linked to UI rule IDs. Use when asked to "verify this in the browser", "reproduce this UI finding", "re-measure after the UI fix", or "review before and after screenshots".
compatibility: Requires access to the target app and browser automation. Bundled JavaScript recipes use the Playwright page API.
---

# UI Verification

Owns the browser session. Every other UI skill in this repo reasons about source and infers what the user will see; this one loads the page and measures it.

- **IS:** booting the app, driving it with a browser, and running the probes that decide a rule at runtime: computed boxes, injected failures, observed layout shift, a scripted Tab walk, an axe scan per theme. Output is findings keyed to rule ids with reproducible evidence, plus the clearing re-run after a fix.
- **IS NOT:** finding defects by reading source or deciding their tier and ship verdict (`ui-design` Audit mode owns both); building or restyling UI (`ui-design` Build); authoring a durable test suite (write Playwright tests); building or maintaining a whole app's persistent verify CLI, doctor command, and feature map (`app-verification`, call it by name); persistent pixel-baseline approval workflows (Chromatic, Percy); field performance (RUM or CrUX; Lighthouse is a lab tool).

The division of labour is the point. A static audit reports what the code will probably do; it cannot see a 40px control whose hit area a pseudo-element already expands to 44, or a retry button wired to nothing. This skill reproduces or kills each of those, so a finding arrives with a measurement instead of a confidence.

## Contents

- [When to run](#when-to-run)
- [Probe catalogue](#probe-catalogue)
- [Progress checklist](#progress-checklist)
- [1. Establish the session](#1-establish-the-session)
- [2. Select the probe set](#2-select-the-probe-set)
- [3. Run the probes](#3-run-the-probes)
- [4. Decide each finding](#4-decide-each-finding)
- [5. Clearing re-run](#5-clearing-re-run)
- [6. Report](#6-report)
- [Honesty rules](#honesty-rules)
- [Gotchas](#gotchas)
- [Related skills](#related-skills)

## When to run

| Situation | What this skill does |
|---|---|
| A `ui-design` audit emitted findings and the user wants them confirmed | Run only the probes those rule ids map to, in `references/rule-coverage.md` |
| No audit ran; the user points at a route or a running app | Detect features, run the full battery on the resolved routes |
| A fix just landed for a previously reproduced finding | Run the clearing re-run only (step 5) |
| The user asks for captures across themes or widths | `probes/theme-locale-matrix.md`, then visual review below |
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