ux-copy-guidelines

ux-copy-guidelines is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,674 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing interface text, including button labels, error messages, empty states, and shared product terms. It helps teams define a consistent voice and tone across web, mobile, CLI, and email interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set writing rules for a product or feature, improve error messages and calls to action, and standardize terminology across interface screens.
Why use it?
It reduces confusing, inconsistent wording that can make users unsure what happened or what to do next.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to set writing rules for a product or feature, improve error messages and calls to action, and standardize terminology across interface screens.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-ai-directory-company/agents-and-skills/ux-copy-guidelines
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 The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills --skill ux-copy-guidelines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,674 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.
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 $0.00038 $0.01674
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00837
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00167

Measured 9d ago against content hash a879566ca0df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ux-copy-guidelines 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 9d 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-copy-guidelines/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

UX Copy Guidelines

Before you start

Gather the following from the user before writing:

  1. What product or feature does this cover? (Entire product, a specific flow, or a new feature launch)
  2. Who are the users? (Technical developers, non-technical consumers, enterprise admins — vocabulary differs drastically)
  3. Does a brand voice already exist? (Brand guidelines, tone documentation, or "we have nothing")
  4. What are the top usability complaints? (Confusing error messages, unclear CTAs, inconsistent terminology)
  5. What platforms does the UI span? (Web, mobile, CLI, email — constraints differ per surface)

If the user says "make our copy better," push back: "Better how? Are users confused by error messages, dropping off at specific steps, or contacting support because the UI does not explain what to do next?"

UX copy guidelines template

1. Voice and tone principles

Define 3-5 voice attributes that stay constant, then show how tone shifts by context.

Voice is the personality (constant). Tone is the mood (varies by situation).

- Clear over clever — say it plainly, skip the wordplay
- Confident, not arrogant — guide without lecturing
- Helpful, not hand-holdy — respect the user's intelligence
- Human, not corporate — write like a knowledgeable colleague

Tone shifts by context:

Context Tone Example
Success state Warm, brief "Project created. You're ready to invite your team."
Error state Direct, calm, solution-first "That email is already registered. Try signing in instead."
Destructive action Serious, specific about consequences "This will permanently delete 12 projects and all their data. This cannot be undone."
Empty state Encouraging, action-oriented "No projects yet. Create your first project to get started."
Loading/waiting Reassuring, informative "Setting up your workspace. This takes about 30 seconds."

2. Microcopy patterns

Define reusable patterns for common UI elements:

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 131 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A a879566ca0df

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ux-copy-guidelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,674 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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