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hicks-law-defaults

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By hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins (GitHub) · coding · 1,573 stars · scanned at commit 70b6a3a

Use this skill when the question is what to *pre-select* in a list of options — radio groups, dropdowns, configuration UIs, plan pickers, sign-up flows, settings. A strong default is the highest-leverage Hick's Law mitigation: most users accept the default, paying almost no decision cost. Trigger when picking what's selected on first load, when stakeholders argue "shouldn't we let the user choose?", when designing wizards or onboarding, or when a UI has many options but most users want the same…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'hicks-law-defaults' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'hicks-law-defaults' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named hicks-law-defaults already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '70b6a3a3a7c774671e45af646306e1448baf0511' -- 'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/cognition-and-learnability-principles/skills/hicks-law-defaults' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/cognition-and-learnability-principles/skills/hicks-law-defaults' ~/.agents/skills/'hicks-law-defaults' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'hicks-law-defaults' ~/.claude/skills/'hicks-law-defaults' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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