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Move UI copy rules from the UI plan into AGENTS.md

db5e4382af514e7ffcdcd3a578a1c41a03927dbf · Keenan Nemetz · 11d ago · parent 20d459f5

Move UI copy rules from the UI plan into AGENTS.md

The UI plan is winding down, but the copy rules need to keep applying.
Keep them in the agent instructions so every session reads them, and
drop the section from docs/ui-plan.md.

docs/ui-plan.md −23

@@ -36,29 +36,6 @@ deliberately rather than by drift.
	36	36	limited to Home, Activity, search, and the account menu; the repository owns
	37	37	its own horizontal tabs.
	38	38
	39		## Copy
	40
	41		Interface text is part of the product. Write it for someone who uses the project
	42		but does not know how it is built.
	43
	44		- A page subtitle says what the page is for, in one sentence a newcomer could
	45		repeat. It describes the user's goal, not the schema or the Git operations
	46		behind it.
	47		- Use the reader's words: proposed update, review, merge, saved version.
	48		Avoid base branch, head commit, land, ref, metadata branch, and other
	49		internal names unless the page is specifically about that concept and there is
	50		no shorter phrase.
	51		- Name the outcome, not the mechanism. "Proposed updates, reviewed before they
	52		are merged" beats "Branches proposed for a base branch, with review and
	53		approvals before they land."
	54		- Labels stay labels; sentences stay sentences. A button says New change, not
	55		Create a change request document.
	56		- Read it aloud before committing. If it sounds like a commit message, a schema
	57		comment, or an API error, rewrite it for the person looking at the screen.
	58
	59		The web UI calls a change request a Change. The formal documents in this
	60		directory can keep the longer name for the concept.
	61
	62	39	## Navigation model
	63	40
	64	41	Global bar (slim): `vole` · `Home` · `Activity` · search · account menu. The