# ui-ux-governance

A skill that gives the agent rules for interface work: how to pick flows, handle states and keep accessibility intact.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1384
- Author: GanyuanRan
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/GanyuanRan/Aegis/tree/HEAD/skills/ui-ux-governance/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ui-ux-governance

## What it does

The skill activates when you design, change or review user-facing interfaces and interaction flows. API changes count too, as long as they alter visible states or recovery. Backend-only work with no user-facing effect stays on its usual route.

Inside are rules grouped under five headings: user effort and task structure, visual hierarchy and consistency, interaction states and recovery, inclusive use and device conditions, waiting and performance experience. They are not all loaded at once. The agent pulls in only the sections the current task touches, so a button-label fix gets a meaning and accessible-name check instead of a full redesign.

What it does not do is hand you styles, a framework or authority to approve design and close a task. It supplies decision and evidence discipline. A build or a screenshot on its own cannot establish the whole experience, so treat it as a prompt to check what is still uncovered.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GanyuanRan/Aegis --skill ui-ux-governance -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/ui-ux-governance/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/ui-ux-governance/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GanyuanRan/Aegis --skill ui-ux-governance -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/ui-ux-governance/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GanyuanRan/Aegis --skill ui-ux-governance -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/ui-ux-governance/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install GanyuanRan/Aegis ui-ux-governance
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/ui-ux-governance/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GanyuanRan/Aegis --skill ui-ux-governance -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/GanyuanRan/Aegis --path skills/ui-ux-governance
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/ui-ux-governance/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add GanyuanRan/Aegis --skill ui-ux-governance -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/GanyuanRan/Aegis/tree/HEAD/skills/ui-ux-governance/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- choose between two flow options by total user effort
- check that an API change does not break visible states or recovery
- work through a form: errors, cancellation, retries
- account for accessibility and input modes when controls change
- separate verified UX claims from unverified ones

## Example prompts
- review this checkout screen against ui-ux-governance rules
- we are changing the payment error response — walk through the interaction states
- compare the two onboarding variants by total user effort

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: ui-ux-governance
description: "Use when designing, changing, or reviewing user-facing interfaces or interaction flows, including API changes that alter visible states or recovery. Backend-only work without user-facing effects stays on its existing route."
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If activation mode is explicit and this request names neither Aegis nor this
skill, return to the fast path without this workflow's rules or ceremony.
Explicit invocation proceeds normally.
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# UI/UX Governance

## Purpose and ownership

Apply experience rules as a compositional skill. Keep design approval,
implementation, review dispatch, and completion with the existing task owner.
For direct requests, deliver the requested scoped design/review; authorized
implementation continues through its appropriate workflow.

**Core principle:** Under an equivalent user goal and accepted requirements,
prefer lower total user effort while preserving accessibility, informed
control, and necessary safeguards. Consider understanding, decisions,
operations, waiting, and recovery; click count alone is insufficient.

Project requirements, design systems, and accepted references define the
product. This skill supplies portable decision and evidence discipline, not
fixed styles, a framework, a universal visual grade, or runtime authority.

## Default path

1. Identify the affected user task, current phase, and actual user-facing delta.
   Preserve the primary workflow. Internal backend changes without an effect
   on interface behavior, displayed information, or recovery do not apply.
2. Read the smallest existing requirement/design/component evidence. Reuse
   accepted patterns. Surface missing decision-changing requirements; resolve
   ordinary reversible details using project context rather than adding gates.
3. Select only rules affected by this task. A button-label correction needs
   meaning, accessible-name, and fit checks, not a full redesign or all references.
4. Express observable acceptance and verification in the existing design,
   plan, implementation task, or review findings. Compare alternatives by
   total effort for the target users; preserve controls and error recovery.
5. At review/delivery, connect claims to fresh evidence and state uncovered
   scope. Fold results into the current findings/verification report. A build,
   screenshot, or automated scan alone cannot establish the whole experience.

For non-tiny work, explain naturally why the applicable experience rule or
evidence boundary matters (`Aegis Visibility`). Add no separate global report,
project record, score, or approval step merely because this skill loaded.

## Conditional rules and evidence

Read only the named section(s) matched by current task evidence:

- [Experience rules](references/experience-rules.md):
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