content-design

content-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jnPiyush/AgentX. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,873 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for writing the words people read inside an application, such as labels, buttons, errors, empty states, onboarding, and confirmations. It focuses on clear wording, helpful instructions, and a consistent tone.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or review user-facing text in prototypes and shipped products, including localized messages and zero-data screens.
Why use it?
It helps replace vague, confusing, or unsafe interface text with copy that users can understand and act on.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write or review user-facing text in prototypes and shipped products, including localized messages and zero-data screens.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jnpiyush/agentx/content-design
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 jnPiyush/AgentX --skill content-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnPiyush/AgentX

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,873 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 $0.00066 $0.01873
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00749
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00187

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6e551b2be1f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

content-design 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.

.github/skills/design/content-design/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Content Design

WHEN: A prototype or shipped surface contains user-facing text -- labels, buttons, empty states, errors, tooltips, onboarding, confirmations, system messages. This skill is the Frontier canonical content guide. Heuristic H2/H9/H10 from usability-heuristics defers to this skill for the specific copy patterns.

When to Use This Skill

  • Writing or reviewing any string a user will read
  • Replacing placeholder copy during prototype handoff
  • Localizing or rewriting error messages
  • Designing onboarding, empty states, or zero-data screens
  • Reviewing AI-generated UI text for clarity and safety

Authoritative Sources

Source Focus
GOV.UK Service Manual -- Content design Plain language, accessibility
Mailchimp Content Style Guide Voice and tone
Microsoft Writing Style Guide Inclusive, action-first wording
Shopify Polaris Content guidelines Commerce and dashboard patterns
Nielsen Norman Group articles on error and empty states Empirical UX research

Quote sources in PRD-level decisions; do not cite them inline in production copy.

Voice Rubric (5 lines, applied to every string)

  1. Clear over clever. If the user has to re-read, rewrite.
  2. Active and direct. "Save changes" beats "Changes can be saved."
  3. Front-load the action or outcome. First two words carry the meaning.
  4. Honest about state. Do not say "saved" before the network round-trip resolves.
  5. Inclusive and neutral. Avoid idioms, gendered defaults, and culture-specific jokes.

Length Budgets

Surface Budget Notes
Primary button 1-3 words, verb-first "Save", "Send invite", "Delete project"
Secondary button 1-3 words Pairs with primary; never both verbs that look the same
Form label 1-4 words Persistent; never replaced by placeholder
Field hint (helper text) <=80 chars Stays visible; explains constraint
Inline error <=120 chars What is wrong + how to fix
Toast <=140 chars Plus optional action link
Empty state heading <=8 words What this surface is for
Empty state body <=160 chars One sentence + one action
Tooltip <=120 chars Single concept; no nesting
Page title (<title>) <=60 chars "Page name -- App name"
Dialog confirmation body <=200 chars State the consequence, name the target

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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 Changed 6e551b2be1f1
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 181 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A a6a1b2ec74c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

content-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository jnPiyush/AgentX (16 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,873 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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