clarify

A command for rewriting user-interface text so it is clear, specific, and actionable. It covers buttons, labels, placeholders, errors, empty states, success messages, and confirmations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review interface strings, improve error instructions, label actions with verbs, and add useful next steps to empty or successful states.
Why use it?
It replaces vague, wordy, or jargon-heavy copy with wording that tells users what happened and what they can do next.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/dragoon0x/canon/clarify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/canon
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 459 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00015 $0.00459
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00046

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2c3ca58d39cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarify scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

source/commands/clarify.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

/clarify

Fix bad UI copy. Not "make it friendlier" — make it honest, specific, and actionable.

What this does

  1. Load canon-ux-writing.
  2. Identify every string: buttons, labels, placeholders, errors, empty states, success toasts, confirmations.
  3. Apply the rules:
    • Buttons use verbs, not nouns. Save changes, not Changes. Delete account, not Account.
    • Sentence case, not Title Case (unless brand explicitly requires).
    • Labels above inputs, placeholders are examples not instructions.
    • Errors say three things: what failed, why, how to fix. "Invalid email" is a failure. "Email must include @ and a domain. Try [email protected]" is help.
    • Empty states offer a path: default (invite action), filtered (clear filters), error (retry).
    • Success toasts include Undo when reversible. Undo beats confirmation dialogs every time.
    • Destructive actions use the verb, not "Yes". Delete permanently, not Yes.
  4. Kill the jargon:
    • No "leverage", "utilize", "robust", "seamless", "cutting-edge", "empower", "unlock".
    • No "please" in system messages. Politeness to software reads weird.
    • No "Oops!" or "Whoops!" in errors. Users want help, not cheer.
  5. Voice vs tone:
    • Voice (consistent): how the product always sounds.
    • Tone (contextual): softer for errors, direct for confirmations, quiet for success.
  6. Write for scanning. Front-load the information. People read UI in an F-pattern.

Output

  • Table: location | before | after | reason.
  • Updated strings in context.
  • Note any strings that should become dynamic (include a variable) rather than static.

Success criteria

Every button is a verb. Every error points to a fix. Every empty state offers an action. No filler words survive the pass.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 40 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 2c3ca58d39cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clarify is a command published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/canon (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 459 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.