ux-writing

ux-writing is a skill for Claude Code from cuellarfr/design-skills. It costs 137 tokens per session (4,723 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to writing the words people see and use in software interfaces, such as buttons, labels, forms, errors, notifications, onboarding, and help text. It focuses on clear, concise, accessible language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or edit interface copy, error and success messages, notifications, forms, onboarding flows, empty states, and product voice-and-tone rules.
Why use it?
It helps users understand what is happening and what to do next, while keeping interface text consistent and easy to use.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the design-skills plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write or edit interface copy, error and success messages, notifications, forms, onboarding flows, empty states, and product voice-and-tone rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cuellarfr/design-skills/ux-writing
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.

Any agent
npx skills add cuellarfr/design-skills --skill ux-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cuellarfr/design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,723 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00137 $0.04723
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.02361
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00945
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00472

Measured 11d ago against content hash a83e48dec38b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ux-writing 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.

skills/ux-writing/SKILL.md · 480 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 480 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UX Writing

Write clear, concise, user-centered interface copy (UX text/microcopy) for digital products and experiences. This skill provides frameworks, patterns, and best practices for creating text that helps users accomplish their goals.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Writing interface copy (buttons, labels, titles, messages, forms)
  • Editing existing UX text for clarity and effectiveness
  • Creating error messages, notifications, or success messages
  • Designing conversational flows or onboarding experiences
  • Establishing voice and tone for a product
  • Auditing product content for consistency and usability

Core UX Writing Principles

The Four Quality Standards

Every piece of UX text should be:

  1. Purposeful — Helps users or the business achieve goals
  2. Concise — Uses the fewest words possible without losing meaning
  3. Conversational — Sounds natural and human, not robotic
  4. Clear — Unambiguous, accurate, and easy to understand

Key Best Practices

Conciseness

  • Use 40-60 characters per line maximum
  • Every word must have a job
  • Break dense text into scannable chunks
  • Front-load important information
  • Eliminate deadwood phrases ("in order to" → "to", "due to the fact that" → "because", "at this point in time" → "now")
  • Replace phrasal verbs with direct verbs ("find out" → "discover", "set up" → "configure", "carry out" → "perform")
  • Avoid stacking modifiers — one adjective is usually enough

Clarity

  • Use plain language (7th grade reading level for general, 10th for professional)
  • Avoid jargon, idioms, and technical terms
  • Use consistent terminology throughout
  • Choose meaningful, specific verbs
  • Avoid discriminatory or exclusionary language (gendered defaults, ableist idioms, culturally specific metaphors)

Conversational Tone

  • Write how you speak
  • Use active voice 85% of the time
  • Include prepositions and articles
  • Avoid robotic phrasing

User-Centered

  • Focus on user benefits, not features
  • Anticipate and answer user questions
  • Use second-person ("you") language
  • Match user's language and mental models

Read the full file on GitHub · 480 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 · 480 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A a83e48dec38b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ux-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository cuellarfr/design-skills (54 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 4,723 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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