assistive-ux

A development guide for Berd’s Assistive UX, the parts of the product that teach users, make suggestions, or adapt settings based on behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding, reviewing, designing, testing, or managing discover, suggest, and autoApply guidance under src/shared/assistive-ux.
Why use it?
It keeps guidance state separate from user settings and sets limits on when the product may change a setting automatically.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/block/berd/assistive-ux
Any agent
npx skills add block/berd --skill assistive-ux
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/block/berd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 597 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 $0.00054 $0.00597
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00298
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00060

Measured yesterday against content hash 6c0ce3077f43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assistive-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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/assistive-ux/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Assistive UX

Use this skill for Berd product intelligence moments that teach, suggest, or adapt settings based on user behavior.

Before changing code, read docs/assistive-ux.md. Treat that doc as the source of product intent and architecture.

Core Rule

Keep assistive state separate from user settings:

User settings answer: what should the product do?
Assistive UX answers: what has the app shown, observed, accepted, retired, or applied?

Do not store guidance lifecycle state inside a feature setting. Do not use assistive state as the source of truth for product behavior.

Types

  • discover: teaches that a control, setting, or capability exists. It should not change settings.
  • suggest: notices a repeated behavior and asks before changing a setting.
  • autoApply: changes a reversible local setting only after strong evidence, then explains the change and offers undo.

Use autoApply conservatively. Never auto-apply changes involving secrets, credentials, permissions, destructive actions, provider setup, billing-like behavior, or hard-to-reverse choices.

Implementation Workflow

  1. Define or update the rule in src/shared/assistive-ux/registry.ts.
  2. Keep lifecycle reads and writes in src/shared/assistive-ux/runtime.ts and src/shared/assistive-ux/state.ts.
  3. Render the moment from the relevant feature surface.
  4. Retire the moment when the user accepts it, dismisses it, sees it enough times, or manually changes the related setting.
  5. If the moment changes a setting, call the setting's public setter and provide an undo path when the change is automatic.
  6. Keep stored signals coarse. Do not store chat text, file paths, provider secrets, credentials, or message contents.

UX Checklist

Before shipping, confirm:

  • The moment appears close to the behavior it helps with.
  • The copy explains the next action without selling the feature.
  • The primary workflow still has visual priority.
  • The moment has a clear retirement path.
  • Repeated exposure is capped.
  • Manual setting changes stop or reset related guidance.
  • The behavior works in light and dark themes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. yesterday First seen · 77 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 6c0ce3077f43

Subscribe to this mod's changes

assistive-ux is a skill published in the GitHub repository block/berd (828 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 597 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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