rome: Skill for Claude Code

Secondary-Text Audit

Extract every piece of subordinate copy in a surface and put each one on trial. The ruleset's premise is that secondary text defaults to absent: it exists only to carry information the user needs before acting that the label, the control's shape, and the surrounding context do not already give them. Most shipped secondary text describes what something is, which the label already did. That text goes.

The output is a verdict table, not prose commentary. Every row resolves to keep, rewrite, or delete, and every rewrite carries its replacement string.

Design philosophy (read this — it shapes every judgment call)

1. Delete is the expected majority outcome. This is the inversion that makes the skill useful. An audit that keeps most of what it finds has not applied the ruleset; it has admired the copy. If your table is mostly keep, re-run the fact test on every keep row and mean it.

2. Uncertainty resolves to delete, with one exception. When a string sits between delete and rewrite, choose delete — the primary label almost always suffices. This is the opposite of the precision-over-recall bias in ux-semantics-audit, and deliberately so: a wrong keep is permanent noise on the screen.

   The exception is a string carrying a cost, a scope, or a cause. Deleting one of those does not cost a line of copy, it costs the reader the fact that made the screen actionable. When the string tells the user what an action breaks, where a setting stops applying, or why a surface is in a state they did not choose, uncertainty resolves to rewrite. Trim it to the fact and keep it.

3. Judge the rendered pair, never the key name. A verdict needs the label the user actually sees next to the text. A key called *.description may render as a card subtitle, a tooltip body, a dialog description, or nothing at all.

4. Fact before verdict. Name which kind of fact the text carries before deciding anything. A string carrying none is delete — that is the rule, not a shortcut.

5. A rewrite must be a real string. "Tighten this" is not a replacement. Write the sentence that ships, in the register docs/ui/VOICE.md fixes. If you cannot write one that passes the rules, the verdict was delete.