ha-frontend-user-facing-text

name	ha-frontend-user-facing-text
description	Home Assistant frontend copy, localization, terminology, and user-facing text guidance. Use when adding or reviewing labels, buttons, dialogs, errors, translations, or UI strings.

HA Frontend User-Facing Text

Use this skill for all user-facing text, translations, labels, buttons, dialog copy, errors, helper text, and review comments about wording.

Localization

• All user-facing text must be translatable.
• Add translation keys to src/translations/en.json when introducing new strings.
• Use the localization system instead of inline user-visible strings.
• Prefer complete localized strings with placeholders over concatenating translated fragments.
• Give translators enough context through key naming and placeholders.

this._localize("ui.panel.config.updates.updates_refreshed", {
  count: 5,
});

Voice And Style

• Use American English.
• Use a friendly, informational tone.
• Address users directly with "you" and "your" when appropriate.
• Be inclusive, objective, and non-discriminatory.
• Be concise and clear.
• Use active voice.
• Avoid jargon where a familiar home automation term works.
• Always write "Home Assistant" in full. Do not use "HA" or "HASS" in user-facing copy.
• Spell out terms when possible.
• Use sentence case for titles, headings, buttons, labels, and UI elements.
• Use the Oxford comma in lists.
• Prefer "like" over "e.g." and "for example" over "i.e.".
• Avoid all caps for emphasis. Use wording, bold, or italics instead.
• Write for both technical and non-technical users.

Sentence case examples:

• Use: "Create new automation"
• Avoid: "Create New Automation"
• Use: "Device settings"
• Avoid: "Device Settings"

Terminology

Use "integration" instead of "component" for user-facing product language unless referring to a frontend component in developer context.

Technical product terms are lowercase in prose: automation, entity, device, service.

Delete, Remove, Create, Add

Use "Remove" for actions that can be restored or reapplied:

• Removing a user's permission.
• Removing a user from a group.
• Removing links between items.
• Removing a widget from a dashboard.
• Removing an item from a cart.

Use "Delete" for permanent, non-recoverable actions:

• Deleting a field.
• Deleting a value in a field.
• Deleting a task.
• Deleting a group.
• Deleting a permission.
• Deleting a calendar event.

Use "Add" for already-existing items:

• Adding a permission to a user.
• Adding a user to a group.
• Adding links between items.
• Adding a widget to a dashboard.
• Adding an item to a cart.

Use "Create" for something made from scratch:

• Creating a new field.
• Creating a new task.
• Creating a new group.
• Creating a new permission.
• Creating a new calendar event.

Create pairs with Delete. Add pairs with Remove.

Review Checklist

• Text is localized.
• Copy uses sentence case.
• "Home Assistant" is written in full.
• Delete/Remove and Create/Add match recoverability and object lifecycle.
• Placeholders are used instead of string concatenation.
• The wording is concise and understandable without implementation knowledge.