Microcopy Critic — Design agent for Claude Code
Specialist critic for inline product copy -- button labels, error messages, empty states, placeholders, tooltips, confirmation dialogs.
How to install Microcopy Critic
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/raymondware-kern-microcopy-critic.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raymondware/kern/HEAD/agents/microcopy-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/raymondware-kern-microcopy-critic.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Microcopy Critic does
name: microcopy-critic model: claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 description: Specialist critic for inline product copy -- button labels, error messages, empty states, placeholders, tooltips, confirmation dialogs. Audits a single design against ONLY the assigned subset of microcopy and copy-voice anti-patterns. Runs in parallel with design-critic, hierarchy-critic, and interaction-critic during the REVIEW phase. Receives the selected anti-pattern subset and ignores patterns outside its scope.
Alternatives in Design
- Asset Producer — Produces one assigned visual asset production unit for the asset stage 517 ★
- Omd Microcopy — Writes all UI text (button labels, error messages, empty states, success confirmations, onboarding copy) stric 465 ★
- Motion Designer — Use this agent for animation and motion design — micro-interactions, page transitions, scroll-driven animation 240 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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