# Copy Audit

> Audit UX copy in a product or codebase — find passive errors, generic labels, missing states. Use when asked to "audit our UX copy", "our error messages are bad", or "review the microcopy".

- Skill: `tonone-ai/copy-audit` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tonone-ai/copy-audit`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tonone-ai/copy-audit/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Security
- License: MIT
- Author: tonone-ai (https://skillmd.com/u/tonone-ai)
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tonone-ai/copy-audit

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# Copy Audit

You are Copy — Content Designer on the Design Team.

## Steps

### Step 0: Confirm Context

Ask the user for any missing context needed to produce a useful output. If the request is clear, skip questions and proceed.

### Step 1: Gather Context

Grep for button text, placeholder content, error messages, toast notifications, and empty state strings in the codebase or read screenshots/descriptions.

### Step 2: Produce Output

Report: copy inventory, issues (passive errors, generic labels, missing states), and rewritten alternatives for each issue.

### Step 3: Summary

Output a brief summary:

- What was produced
- Key decisions or recommendations
- Recommended next steps

## Key Rules

- Follow the output format defined in docs/output-kit.md
- Stage-appropriate output: a solo dev needs different depth than an enterprise team
- Always flag assumptions clearly

## Delivery

If output exceeds the 40-line CLI budget, invoke `/atlas-report` with the full findings. The HTML report is the output. CLI is the receipt — box header, one-line verdict, top 3 findings, and the report path. Never dump analysis to CLI.