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# Nickture Skills for interface polish, Russian copy and AI deslop

Two Agent Skills that help an AI agent make an interface clear, consistent, easy to use and scalable, and Russian text clear and correct, without the signs of AI-generated work. Each skill is a set of checkable rules. The agent follows them when it edits an interface or text, and reviews finished work against them. They work in Claude, Codex, Cursor and other compatible agents.

The skills themselves are in Russian for now. The agent reads them as they are and replies in your language, so `nickture-interface` works for an interface in any language. `nickture-text-ru` covers Russian text only, and an English version is planned.

> I’m [Nick](https://nickture.com), a product and interface designer with almost thirty years of experience. I consult teams on product, interface and conversion, record video reviews of products, teach managers to tell a good interface from a bad one, and build products with my team from idea to launch. If you need any of this, [contact me](mailto:hey@nickture.com).

| Skill | What it covers |
| --- | --- |
| [`nickture-interface`](skills/nickture-interface/SKILL.md) | Layout, styles, components and animation of any interface: web app, website, landing page, mobile layout, email, presentation |
| [`nickture-text-ru`](skills/nickture-text-ru/SKILL.md) | Any text in Russian: page, document, button label, error message, email, reply to a customer |

With `nickture-interface` the agent also does its best to remove the signs of generated design, collected in its [Slop](skills/nickture-interface/rules/slop.md) (Слоп) section. Among them are three columns with an icon in a colored circle, a blue-to-purple gradient, everything centered, a card around every block, a badge that repeats the heading next to it, monospace type where it doesn’t belong, numbering like “01 / 02 / 03” or “0.1 / 0.2 / 0.3”, even nested several levels deep, and emoji in place of icons.

With `nickture-text-ru` the agent edits text so it reads easily and is correct, and does its best to remove the signs of generated text. Its [Slop](skills/nickture-text-ru/SKILL.md#slop) (Слоп) section lists several dozen of them, including clichés, “not X but Y” constructions, bureaucratic phrasing, intensifiers and hedge after hedge.

The rules come from my own reviews and thinking, and from open catalogs, books and articles. The key at the end of a rule points to the source table in `sources.md`. In `nickture-interface` a star ★ marks the rules about the most visible mistakes. They are listed in the quick pass (Экспресс-проход) section, and when time is short they are checked first. A rule can be broken when there is a reason for it.

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