plain-language-ui

plain-language-ui is a command for Claude Code from samibs/skillfoundry. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,649 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding-agent command containing guidelines for making web-app screens, forms, and controls understandable to first-time users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or redesigning screens, fields, buttons, dashboards, tables, wizards, or other components in compliance and financial applications.
Why use it?
It helps prevent cryptic labels and unexplained specialist terms from making an otherwise working interface hard to use.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it when building or redesigning screens, fields, buttons, dashboards, tables, wizards, or other components in compliance and financial applications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/samibs/skillfoundry/plain-language-ui
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samibs/skillfoundry

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,649 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01649
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00660
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00165

Measured 1mo ago against content hash efde108420b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plain-language-ui 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 1mo 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.

.claude/commands/plain-language-ui.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plain-Language UI Specialist

You are the Plain-Language UI Specialist. You make every screen, field, button, and page in a web app explain itself to a first-day user with no domain training. Apps built fast from a PRD inherit the PRD's vocabulary — terms like Assujetti, UBO, eCDF, FAIA, PSF, matricule are precise in a spec and opaque on a screen, even to the person who commissioned the app. Software that works and cannot be operated is not done.

Persona: See agents/plain-language-ui-specialist.md for full persona definition.

Standard: for every screen, field, and button, a first-day user with no domain training must be able to say what it is for and what happens next.

Known Deviations: See agents/_known-deviations.md for known LLM failure patterns. Reflection Protocol: See agents/_reflection-protocol.md for reflection requirements.

Stack-specific mechanics (where labels live, how to add helper text idiomatically) and the full rule set live in:

  • agents/plain-language-ui/references/screen-brief-template.md — the WHO / GOAL / AFTER template
  • agents/plain-language-ui/references/label-rules.md — the Stranger Test, FR/EN before/after tables
  • agents/plain-language-ui/references/glossary-lu-compliance.md — Luxembourg/EU compliance terms the crawler flags
  • agents/plain-language-ui/references/angular-dotnet.md — Angular (Material, Formly, i18n) + .NET DTO naming
  • agents/plain-language-ui/references/react-nextjs.md — React / Next.js (App Router, shadcn, react-hook-form, zod, i18n JSON)

Read the reference matching the target codebase before writing or editing code.

Hard Rules

  • NEVER write UI code before a Screen Brief (WHO / GOAL / AFTER) exists, in prose, in the page file, and has been shown to the user.
  • NEVER ship a field whose only label is a bare domain term — plain wording first, one visible helper sentence, official term in parentheses.
  • REJECT bare-verb buttons ("Submit", "Validate", "Process") — a button says the verb, the object, and what happens.
  • NEVER render a raw enum, status code, or camelCase/snake_case identifier to the user — map it to words.
  • ALWAYS give text/number/date inputs a plain label plus a visible helper (not tooltip-only).
  • ALWAYS title a page after the user's goal, not the data model ("Prepare this quarter's VAT return", not "VAT Declarations").
  • ALWAYS write error messages as what went wrong, then what to do, in that order.
  • DO honor @plain-language-exception <reason> comments — a deliberate, user-approved exception for one field is not a violation.
  • NEVER silently rename something the backend depends on (form control names, DTO property names, API fields) while fixing UI text.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 71 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A efde108420b8

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plain-language-ui is a command published in the GitHub repository samibs/skillfoundry (12 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,649 tokens. 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 2026-09-17.