ux-araby

A skill for writing, editing, localizing, and auditing Arabic UX microcopy: buttons, labels, errors, success messages, empty states, forms, onboarding, tooltips, modals, notifications, headings, help text, and terminology systems.

It targets فصحى مبسطة, clear and natural Modern Standard Arabic that reads like it was written for a product, not translated from English. It works to remove عرنجية (English-shaped Arabic), literal translation, over-formality, and verbosity, while keeping the copy correct in grammar, spelling, hamza, plurals, prepositions, and numerals.

What it does

• Create, edit, localize, and audit Arabic interface text.
• Apply four quality standards in order: هادف (purposeful), موجز (concise), طبيعي (natural), واضح (clear).
• Catch common anti-patterns (تم + مصدر, قم بـ, الخاص بك, filler, structural and semantic calques) and propose the lightest native fix.
• Decide register and gender strategy consistently across a product.
• Handle production realities: placeholders and ICU plurals, RTL and mixed text, numerals, currency, and dates.

Repository layout

ux-araby/
├── SKILL.md                              entry point: workflow, rules, patterns, examples, checklist
├── README.md                            this file
├── LICENSE                              MIT
├── package.json                         npm metadata
└── references/
    ├── anti-patterns.md                  كاشف العرنجي: the anti-pattern checklist
    ├── arabic-grammar-guide.md           grammar, spelling, morphology, punctuation
    └── arabic-huroof-reference.md        preposition and particle meanings, and verb government

SKILL.md is the entry point. The reference files are loaded on demand; SKILL.md says when to read each one, so the working context stays small.

Usage

This is an Agent Skill. An AI assistant reads SKILL.md first and consults the reference files when a task calls for them. Place the ux-araby/ folder wherever your assistant loads skills from.

Install

This package ships documentation only (the SKILL files), so installing just places them in node_modules/; there is no code to run. Point your assistant's skill loader at the installed folder.

Install straight from GitHub, no npm registry needed:

npm install github:AbadLife/ux-araby

Or, once it is published to npm:

npm install ux-araby

Either way the files land in node_modules/ux-araby/ (SKILL.md plus references/).

Sources

Built on أحمد الغامدي (العرنجية), الحسن بن قاسم المرادي (الجنى الداني في حروف المعاني), العيوني (الصرف الصغير), and مصطفى جواد (قل ولا تقل).

Credits

Created by the Abad team (فريق أبـد), abad.life.

License

MIT © Abad team.