audit-ux-journeys — User-Story, Task-Completion & IA Audit

Degree of freedom: MIXED — Story derivation, IA, and evidence tags [HIGH freedom]; Phase 2 headed walkthrough [LOW freedom — run exactly].

A site can pass every per-page heuristic and still fail: pages clean, yet nobody can find the feature, checkout takes nine steps with two dead ends, and nav follows the database schema. audit-ux judges pages; this skill judges paths and structure.

The 2026 consensus: a UX audit is not personal taste. Derive stories from the product, walk the journeys, audit IA against mental models, and ground findings in behavioral evidence when it exists. Pre-launch: qualitative walkthroughs, labeled as assumptions.

Before ANY browser interaction, read protocol-browser-anti-stall and apply its rules to every step.