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critique-microcopylisted

Reviews error messages, empty states, and other short microcopy strings, including screens annotated with placement, container, timing, and behavior context, against NN/g's error-message guidelines: plain language, specificity, constructive next steps, neutral tone, and recovery grace. Judges the message text itself, not the surrounding screen's flow, controls, or confirmation behavior (critique-usability covers that). Use when the user asks for a review, feedback, a second opinion, a red-line pass, or a quality check on error copy, empty-state copy, form validation messages, or other short UI text before it ships.
product-on-purpose/critique-skills · ★ 1 · AI & Automation · score 71
Install: claude install-skill product-on-purpose/critique-skills
# critique-microcopy Reviews error messages, empty states, and other short user-facing microcopy strings against NN/g's error-message guidelines, operationalized into the 14 `NNG-EM-*` criteria in `references/NNG-EM.md`: where and how prominently a message appears, what it says, how much work it leaves the reader, and whether a total failure still leaves some goodwill. **Narrow artifact claim.** This skill's artifact format is annotated screens described in text, placement, container, timing, and behavior notated alongside each message, per [ADR 0018 (microcopy artifact format)](../../docs/internal/decisions/0018-microcopy-artifact-format-annotated-context.md), which chose that format over a bare string list precisely because eight of the fourteen criteria have nothing to read without it. A bare list of strings is still accepted as degraded input, at the coverage cost pass 2 below states; it is not the format this skill is measured on. Either way, this skill does not critique live applications or rendered screenshots: a screen's context arrives as structured text annotation, never as an image, and "the button looked wrong" is out of scope because nothing in the artifact states what the button looked like. See `references/NNG-EM.md`, "Artifact format", for the exact annotation grammar. ## Contract Every finding this skill emits conforms to `contract/critique-contract.schema.json`. See `docs/reference/critique-contract.md` for the field contracts a schema cannot check on it