Interface Microcopy

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name: interface-microcopy
description: Write interface microcopy for controls, forms, confirmations, permissions, loading, success, and destructive actions that makes intent and consequences clear at decision time.
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# Interface Microcopy

Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.

## Procedure
1. Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
2. Establish the evidence baseline using flow/state design, control semantics, permissions, error conditions, space constraints, and user terminology. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
3. Start from user intent and system state, prefer concrete verbs, expose consequence before commitment, remove redundant instruction, and validate in layout/context.
4. Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
5. Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
6. Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.

## Quality gate
A user can predict the action and consequence without relying on nearby documentation.