Lamina controls and menus

Skill aryaniyaps/lamina/skills/lamina-controls-and-menus

Actions and reversibility in contracts — primary/destructive actions, undo policy, confirmations. Use when destructive ops lack scenarios.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add aryaniyaps/lamina --skill lamina-controls-and-menus

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SKILL.md

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Controls and Actions (agent-native)

Specify action semantics in screen and workflow contracts — destructive, reversible, confirmation policy — not menu widget styling.

Contract encoding

Per action on surfaces[]:

id, label, destructive: true|false
reversible: true|false → if true, confirmation usually unnecessary
confirmation_required only when undo impossible + scenario documents
undo_scope: step | session | none

Working-set actions on primary toolbar area in screen spec; full catalog in nav/menus.

Frameworks

Ask forgiveness, not permission: undo replaces confirm dialogs for recoverable ops.
Rich modeless feedback: status in view, not modal for normalcy.
Preview/compare: before irreversible-feeling changes — note in workflow step.

Design checklists

Destructive ops have scenarios[] + recovery or undo policy.
Daily working-set actions ≤1-2 clicks from working screen.
Confirm only when invariant violation risk and undo absent.
Selection + manipulation pattern documented for sovereign apps.
Platform conventions noted in implement.md (web vs desktop) — Lamina stays unopinionated on library.

Verify checks

Actor walk: destructive op matches contract confirmation/undo behavior.
Accidental click recovery — undo or cancel path exists per contract.

Anti-patterns

Confirm dialog for undoable delete.
Modal error for recoverable validation.
All actions equal weight on crowded screen spec.
Hidden working-set functions three levels deep.