Official Content & Writing

ux-copy

Write or review UX copy — microcopy, error messages, empty states, CTAs. Trigger with "write copy for", "what should this button say?", "review this error message", or when naming a CTA, wording a confirmation dialog, filling an empty state, or writing onboarding text.

This skill ships only metadata — no inline instructions. See the source repo for details.

Install this skill

One command (all agents)

Runs the npx skills CLI which auto-detects every AI coding agent you have installed (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Windsurf, Copilot, and 51 more).

npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/HEAD/design/skills/ux-copy

Alternative: shorthand form

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill ux-copy

Install to a specific agent

Pick the agent you use. The CLI writes the skill to that agent's standard skill directory.

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill ux-copy --agent claude-code

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill ux-copy --agent cursor

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill ux-copy --agent codex

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill ux-copy --agent opencode

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill ux-copy --agent github-copilot

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill ux-copy --agent windsurf

Manual install (no CLI)

Prefer to skip the CLI? Clone the repo and drop the skill folder into your agent's skills directory.

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.git

cp -r knowledge-work-plugins/design/skills/ux-copy ~/.claude/skills/

For other agents, replace ~/.claude/skills/ with their skill directory — see the full list.

Use it

Once installed, ask your agent to "use the ux-copy skill" or describe what you want (e.g. "Write or review UX copy — microcopy, error messages, empty states, CTAs. Trigger"). Most agents auto-discover the skill from its SKILL.md description — no slash command needed.

Requires: Node.js 18+ for npx skills. Skill files are MIT-style permissive by default — check the source repo for the actual license.

SKILL.md source

---
name: ux-copy
description: Write or review UX copy — microcopy, error messages, empty states, CTAs. Trigger with "write copy for", "what should this button say?", "review this error message", or when naming a CTA, wording a con
---

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