ux-writing

ux-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from glebis/humane-agentic-design. It costs 162 tokens per session (3,323 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for writing the words people see in software, such as buttons, error messages, settings, documentation, and release notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or review interface text, README files, documentation pages, onboarding content, and release notes.
Why use it?
It helps make product language clear, consistent, and useful so people know what happened and what to do next.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the humane plugin — 17 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to write or review interface text, README files, documentation pages, onboarding content, and release notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/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 glebis/humane-agentic-design --skill ux-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glebis/humane-agentic-design

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install humane, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 agent.

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.

agentmods badge for ux-writing

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/ux-writing/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/ux-writing)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/ux-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/ux-writing/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for ux-writing

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/ux-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/glebis/humane-agentic-design/ux-writing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 162 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,323 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 $0.00162 $0.03323
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.01662
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00665
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00332

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0ca4d96d70ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 10d 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.

humane/skills/ux-writing/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UX Writing

Announce at start: "I'm using the humane:ux-writing skill to write and review the words inside this product."

The words are part of the interface, not a layer applied to it. A control that names its exact action needs no tooltip; an error that says what to do next needs no support ticket. Clear beats clever, consistent beats varied, and the best error message is the interaction redesigned so the error cannot happen.

What this skill owns, and what it doesn't

Owns: the source wording of every user-facing string, and the decision about what a string must accomplish.

That includes documentation prose — READMEs, docs pages, release notes, onboarding guides. The principles below were written for interface strings and most transfer directly (accuracy, one vocabulary, nothing does double duty, no selling); where a principle is interface-specific it is marked. A doc that contradicts the thing it documents is a HIGH finding, not a typo.

Adjacent concern Owner
How copy renders — capitalization via text-transform, truncation, smart punctuation, measure layout-rules (and better-typography if interfaces is installed)
Whether the layout has room for the translated string layout-rules
Error markup and announcement (aria-invalid, live regions) nielsen-heuristics for the heuristic; better-accessibility for the implementation
Whether the copy lands with strangers respondent-panel
Whether a stakeholder objects to the argument persona-review
Brand voice for marketing surfaces, taglines, transformation claims brandkit, before-after

This skill writes the words. It does not judge the usability of the flow around them — that is nielsen-heuristics.

Quick Reference

Category When to use Reference
Copy patterns Ready-made shapes for errors, empty states, confirmations, toggles, notifications patterns.md

Step 0 — Read the evidence before writing a word

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 276 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A 0ca4d96d70ef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ux-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository glebis/humane-agentic-design (28 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 3,323 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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