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user-facing-error-messages

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Audit and rewrite user-facing error messages so users can self-serve instead of emailing support. Use when auditing error messages across an app, improving or rewriting error wording, reviewing toasts, alerts, flash messages, form validation copy, or empty/failure states, or when a message feels opaque, blame-y, or ends in "contact support". Covers the four-part rubric (what / why / next / escape), an inventory-and-triage audit workflow, rewrite templates, and security-safe disclosure rules. Do NOT use for exception architecture, typed errors, or developer-facing logging (use error-handling skill); for the security rules around what errors may safely disclose in auth/crypto paths (use security skill); or for the visual styling of alerts, toasts, and banners (use frontend-aesthetics skill).

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