Official agent skill

Assistive UX

by block in block/berd

A skill your agent uses when adding, reviewing, designing, testing, or managing Assistive UX moments in Berd, including discover, suggest, and autoApply guidance, adaptive settings, behavior…

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Install Assistive UX

skills CLI
$ npx skills add block/berd --skill assistive-ux -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install block/berd assistive-ux --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/block/berd.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/assistive-ux .claude/skills/assistive-ux && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
assistive-ux
GitHub stars
969
Token cost
~706 tokens
SKILL.md length
328 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
11
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when adding, reviewing, designing, testing, or managing Assistive UX moments in Berd, including discover, suggest, and autoApply guidance, adaptive settings, behavior…

  • Works in 6 steps: Define or update the rule in… → Keep lifecycle reads and writes in… → Render the moment from the relevant… → …
  • Managing Assistive UX moments in Berd
  • SKILL.md covers Core Rule, Types, Implementation Workflow and UX Checklist, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Assistive UX is an agent skill from block/berd, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Use when adding, reviewing, designing, testing, or managing Assistive UX moments in Berd, including discover, suggest, and autoApply guidance, adaptive settings, behavior signals, retirement rules, or changes under src/shared/assistive-ux.

Its SKILL.md is about 710 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: a desktop app for getting work done with any model. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Managing Assistive UX moments in Berd
  • Including discover
  • AutoApply guidance
  • Adaptive settings

Example prompts

  • “/assistive-ux”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Define or update the rule in src/shared/assistive-ux/registry.ts.
  2. Keep lifecycle reads and writes in src/shared/assistive-ux/runtime.ts and
  3. Render the moment from the relevant feature surface.
  4. Retire the moment when the user accepts it, dismisses it, sees it enough
  5. If the moment changes a setting, call the setting's public setter and provide
  6. Keep stored signals coarse. Do not store chat text, file paths, provider

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5bcf29b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Assistive UX loads about 706 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 63 tokens; SKILL.md has 328 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~63
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~706

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from block/berd at commit 5bcf29b, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© block). 328 words, ~706 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/assistive-ux/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
assistive-ux
description
Use when adding, reviewing, designing, testing, or managing Assistive UX moments in Berd, including discover, suggest, and autoApply guidance, adaptive settings, behavior signals, retirement rules, or changes under src/shared/assistive-ux.

Assistive UX

Use this skill for Berd product intelligence moments that teach, suggest, or adapt settings based on user behavior.

Before changing code, read docs/assistive-ux.md. Treat that doc as the source of product intent and architecture.

Core Rule

Keep assistive state separate from user settings:

text
User settings answer: what should the product do?
Assistive UX answers: what has the app shown, observed, accepted, retired, or applied?

Do not store guidance lifecycle state inside a feature setting. Do not use assistive state as the source of truth for product behavior.

Types

  • discover: teaches that a control, setting, or capability exists. It should not change settings.
  • suggest: notices a repeated behavior and asks before changing a setting.
  • autoApply: changes a reversible local setting only after strong evidence, then explains the change and offers undo.

Use autoApply conservatively. Never auto-apply changes involving secrets, credentials, permissions, destructive actions, provider setup, billing-like behavior, or hard-to-reverse choices.

Implementation Workflow

  1. Define or update the rule in src/shared/assistive-ux/registry.ts.
  2. Keep lifecycle reads and writes in src/shared/assistive-ux/runtime.ts and src/shared/assistive-ux/state.ts.
  3. Render the moment from the relevant feature surface.
  4. Retire the moment when the user accepts it, dismisses it, sees it enough times, or manually changes the related setting.
  5. If the moment changes a setting, call the setting's public setter and provide an undo path when the change is automatic.
  6. Keep stored signals coarse. Do not store chat text, file paths, provider secrets, credentials, or message contents.

UX Checklist

Before shipping, confirm:

  • The moment appears close to the behavior it helps with.
  • The copy explains the next action without selling the feature.
  • The primary workflow still has visual priority.
  • The moment has a clear retirement path.
  • Repeated exposure is capped.
  • Manual setting changes stop or reset related guidance.
  • The behavior works in light and dark themes.

Testing

Add focused tests for:

  • fresh eligibility
  • shown-count updates
  • max-show expiration
  • acceptance or dismissal retirement
  • related setting-change retirement
  • invalid localStorage fallback
  • any feature surface that renders or applies the moment

For broad behavior, add Playwright coverage only when the flow benefits from real app navigation or persistence across reloads.

© block, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/assistive-ux of block/berd.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5bcf29b

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Questions about Assistive UX

What does Assistive UX do?

A skill your agent uses when adding, reviewing, designing, testing, or managing Assistive UX moments in Berd, including discover, suggest, and autoApply guidance, adaptive settings, behavior…. Assistive UX is an agent skill from block/berd, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Use when adding, reviewing, designing, testing, or managing Assistive UX moments in Berd, including discover, suggest, and autoApply guidance, adaptive settings, behavior signals, retirement rules, or changes under src/shared/assistive-ux.

When should I use Assistive UX?

Assistive UX fits situations like: managing Assistive UX moments in Berd; including discover; autoApply guidance; adaptive settings.

How do I install Assistive UX in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add block/berd --skill assistive-ux -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/assistive-ux in block/berd) into .claude/skills/assistive-ux in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Assistive UX in Codex?

Run `npx skills add block/berd --skill assistive-ux -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/assistive-ux in block/berd) into .agents/skills/assistive-ux in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Assistive UX in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add block/berd --skill assistive-ux -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/assistive-ux, .gemini/skills/assistive-ux, .github/skills/assistive-ux and .opencode/skills/assistive-ux in your project.

What does Assistive UX need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Assistive UX is instructions for the agent only.

Does Assistive UX access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Assistive UX safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Assistive UX use?

Assistive UX is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Assistive UX use?

About 706 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Assistive UX?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Assistive UX: Design System (affaan-m/ECC, 275k stars), Design Guide (paperclipai/paperclip, 99k stars), Feature Design Assistant (davila7/claude-code-templates, 32k stars) and Design Audit Against Rams' Principles (thedotmack/claude-mem, 98k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Assistive UX?

block (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in block/berd, which has 969 GitHub stars. The repository holds 11 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: block/berd on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.