build-for-good-ux

build-for-good-ux is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alper-dev/build-for-good-ux-skill. It costs 50 tokens per session (3,033 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A checklist for designing and reviewing user interfaces and user experiences. It covers what users see while an action is loading, succeeds, fails, or has no data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing pages, forms, components, loading states, errors, empty states, success messages, and interfaces with many choices.
Why use it?
It helps prevent interfaces that handle only the successful path and leave users unsure what happened or how to recover.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when building or reviewing pages, forms, components, loading states, errors, empty states, success messages, and interfaces with many choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alper-dev/build-for-good-ux-skill/build-for-good-ux-skill
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alper-dev/build-for-good-ux-skill --skill build-for-good-ux-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alper-dev/build-for-good-ux-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,033 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 $0.00050 $0.03033
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01517
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00607
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00303

Measured 11d ago against content hash 23f29b6d36aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-for-good-ux 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 11d 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.

SKILL.md · 352 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 352 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build For Good UX

Based on Katherine Gilligan's public "Build For Good UX" series (@synsation_). Use this as an implementation checklist for UI work, not as transcript notes.

Core Principle

Good UI is how an app looks. Good UX is whether users understand what to do, what happened, what failed, and how to recover. AI-generated UI often covers only the happy path. Build the full experience.

Every screen needs these states:

State Required UX
Loading Shows progress appropriate to wait time and scope
Success Confirms the user's action worked
Error Explains what happened, why, and next action
Empty Explains why nothing is there and how to start or continue

Good UX builds trust. Bad UX creates uncertainty, extra steps, and friction. Users leave and blame the product, not themselves.

Required Workflow

When building or reviewing a UI, do this before considering the work complete:

  1. Identify every user action and async data source.
  2. Define loading, success, error, and empty states for each relevant screen or section.
  3. Pick the loader based on scope and duration.
  4. Place errors next to the thing that caused them unless the issue blocks the whole flow.
  5. Ensure every action gives visible feedback.
  6. Make each page section resilient when other sections load slowly or fail.
  7. Use familiar patterns for the user's device, locale, and audience.
  8. Reduce choice overload with grouping, curation, filtering, or progressive disclosure.
  9. Verify the final checklist at the bottom of this file.

Loading States

Missing loaders make users think the app is broken. A blank screen with no response can lose users in 2-3 seconds. Bad loaders can also make the app feel slower.

Choose Loader By Context

Pattern Use When Avoid When
Skeleton screen Whole page or large content section loads Small contained action
Progress bar Duration or progress is knowable Unknown background wait
Inline spinner Button or small section is working Whole page load
Optimistic UI Action is very likely to succeed Failure would be costly or confusing
No loader Work finishes under 1 second Delay may exceed 1 second

Read the full file on GitHub · 352 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. 11d ago First seen · 352 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 23f29b6d36aa

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build-for-good-ux is a skill published in the GitHub repository alper-dev/build-for-good-ux-skill (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,033 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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