ux-microcopy-audit

ux-microcopy-audit is a skill for Claude Code from Uxcel-Lab/product-skills. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,530 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of the words used in an interface, including labels, buttons, error messages, empty states, hints, and notifications. It rates problems by severity and suggests clearer replacements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the text in screens, forms, dashboards, onboarding flows, and product messages. It helps rewrite labels and messages so users can understand what happened and what to do next.
Why use it?
It helps find copy that is confusing, inconsistent, overly technical, or difficult to act on. It separates writing problems from accessibility mechanics and manipulative wording.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the uxcel plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check the text in screens, forms, dashboards, onboarding flows, and product messages. It helps rewrite labels and messages so users can understand what happened and what to do next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uxcel-lab/product-skills/microcopy
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 Uxcel-Lab/product-skills --skill microcopy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Uxcel-Lab/product-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install uxcel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,530 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 $0.00068 $0.01530
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00765
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00153

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7f90c6a5c386, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ux-microcopy-audit 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.

ux/audits/microcopy/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Microcopy Audit Skill

How this skill behaves (read first)

This is an evaluative skill — it reviews existing copy, auto-runs, and is built to be called as a validation step by generative skills (the ux-microcopy writer, plus typography, dashboard, onboarding, and component skills hand off here for their labels and messages).

It owns copy quality. Deliberate deferrals:

  • Manipulative copy (confirmshaming, fake urgency, guilt) → the dark-patterns audit owns intent; flag and route.
  • Copy accessibility specifics (alt text rules, screen-reader behavior) → the accessibility audit; this skill flags plain-language/clarity, defers the technical a11y mechanics.

Scope discipline. When invoked directly (the user named this audit), review only this concern — don't pull in sibling audits. It runs alongside other lenses only when an orchestrator (ux-design-review) or a generative skill calls it under docs/orchestration-policy.md, where it sits in Tier A — always-relevant, auto-runs. Explicit scope always wins.


What this skill changes vs. default behavior

By default, copy review is impressionistic ("sounds fine") and partial — it misses the hidden copy (error states, empty states) and never checks consistency across a flow. This skill forces:

  1. A content inventory — sweep all copy, including hidden states.
  2. Named criteria — clarity, concision, action-orientation, consistency, tone fit, inclusivity — not vibes.
  3. A rewrite for each finding, plus severity.
  4. A consistency pass across the whole flow, which single-screen review can't do.

The audit method (content inventory)

  1. Inventory the copy. List every piece of text in the flow/product — and don't miss hidden content: error messages, empty states, tooltips, confirmations, notifications.
  2. Evaluate against the criteria below. Capture screenshots/locations so fixes are easy to apply.
  3. Prioritize — one step at a time; lead with what costs users most.
  4. Recommend rewrites, not just flags.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. 9d ago First seen · 141 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 7f90c6a5c386

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ux-microcopy-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository Uxcel-Lab/product-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,530 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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