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Developer Tooling UX

by microsoft

Developer Tooling UX is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in apm.

3.5K stars324 forkson microsoft/apmAdded 2026/08/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/15
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Install Developer Tooling UX
Copy Developer Tooling UX into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/apm/tree/main/.agents/skills/devx-ux ~/.claude/skills/devx-ux

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/apm.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
.agents/skills/devx-ux/SKILL.md in microsoft/apm
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/devx-ux
Collection
One of 21 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Frontend — 567 skills

What Developer Tooling UX does

Developer Tooling UX guides the design of APM CLI command surfaces, help text, install/init/run flows, error wording, and first-run experience. Activate when modifying Click command definitions, help strings, error messages, or README quickstart paths.

Developer Tooling UX is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. Developer Tooling UX comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, codex-cli, context-engineering and github-copilot.

Documentation

README

Developer Tooling UX Skill

Developer Tooling UX expert persona

When to activate

  • Changes to src/apm_cli/cli.py or any Click command definition
  • New / renamed commands, subcommands, flags, or positional args
  • Help strings (help=) and command docstrings
  • Error messages that the user reads (not internal exceptions)
  • apm init, apm install, apm run, apm compile, apm preview, apm list, apm deps flow changes
  • README quickstart edits that change the first-run path

Key rules

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Developer Tooling UX

  • What else does microsoft publish alongside Developer Tooling UX?

    Developer Tooling UX is one of 21 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/apm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include APM Issue Autopilot, APM Review Panel and APM Spec Guardian. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Developer Tooling UX does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/apm page.

  • How does Developer Tooling UX compare to other Frontend skills?

    Developer Tooling UX ranks #179 by stars among the 567 Frontend skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Angular Developer, Android Clean Architecture and Accessibility. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Developer Tooling UX against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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