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hicks-law-menus

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

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

Use this skill when designing menus, dropdowns, navigation, command palettes, or any interface where the user picks from a list. Trigger when the menu has more than ~7 items, when navigation feels overwhelming, when designing a cmd-K palette, when picking what goes in a "More" overflow, or when arguing about whether to add another menu item. Sub-aspect of `hicks-law`; read that first if you haven't already.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'hicks-law-menus' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'hicks-law-menus' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named hicks-law-menus 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '70b6a3a3a7c774671e45af646306e1448baf0511' -- 'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/cognition-and-learnability-principles/skills/hicks-law-menus' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/cognition-and-learnability-principles/skills/hicks-law-menus' ~/.agents/skills/'hicks-law-menus' && 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-menus' ~/.claude/skills/'hicks-law-menus' (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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