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Writing Error Messages

joshuadavidthomas/writing-error-messages

Use when writing, reviewing, or rewriting user-facing error messages, validation messages, form errors, empty/error states, auth errors, failure notifications, retry/support copy, CLI errors, or API errors humans will read. Helps make errors specific, actionable, non-blaming, accessible, and safe without leaking sensitive details.

5k tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
4
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
37
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/joshuadavidthomas/agent-skills --skill writing-error-messages

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take joshuadavidthomas/writing-error-messages from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.