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Devx Ux

microsoft/devx-ux

>- Activate when designing or modifying CLI command surfaces, command help text, install/init/run flows, error wording, or first-run experience in the APM CLI -- even when the user does not say "UX" explicitly.

285 tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
1
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
3460
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/microsoft/apm --skill devx-ux

The instruction itself

3 sections, as written by the author

Developer Tooling UX Skill

Developer Tooling UX expert persona

When to activate

  • Changes to src/apm_cli/cli.py or any Click command definition
  • New / renamed commands, subcommands, flags, or positional args
  • Help strings (help=) and command docstrings
  • Error messages that the user reads (not internal exceptions)
  • apm init, apm install, apm run, apm compile, apm preview,

apm list, apm deps flow changes

  • README quickstart edits that change the first-run path

Key rules

  • Compare every flow against npm / pip / cargo / gh mental

models -- justify any deviation.

  • Default output is for humans; --verbose is for agents.
  • Every error names the failure, the cause, and one next action.
  • Defer logging-architecture decisions (_rich_*, CommandLogger

patterns) to the CLI Logging UX skill.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take microsoft/devx-ux 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.