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ux-menus

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Design or critique UI menus — pick the right menu type (dropdown, cascading, contextual, single/multi-select, search, inline) for the action set, and apply item ordering, grouping, labeling, and state best practices. Trigger when the user asks to design or review a menu, dropdown, context/right-click menu, overflow (⋮) menu, or asks how to organize actions into a menu.

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# Menus Skill

## How this skill behaves (read first)

This is a **generative** skill. The default failure modes: **catch-all dropdowns** (unrelated actions dumped into one menu), **deep ambiguous nesting** (cascading levels users get lost in), and **unordered item lists** (no prioritization, no grouping, jargon labels). A menu is a *curated, ordered set of related actions* — when it stops being that, the fix is changing the flow, not adding levels. This skill gates:

1. **Establish the action set** — what actions, how related, how many, selection or command?
2. **Apply the always-true core** — type from structure, priority ordering, grouping, labels, states.
3. **Surface the context-dependent decisions** (cascading, contextual, search-in-menu, shortcuts) with trade-offs.

Then it **hands off to `ux-heuristics-audit`, `ux-accessibility-audit`, `ux-aesthetics-audit`, and `ux-microcopy-audit`** for validation.

> Scope & composition (per `docs/orchestration-policy.md` §9): this skill owns menu *structure and anatomy*. **Peers that own a sub-part (defer — each handles its sub-part if reached):** `ux-navigation` owns where menus live in the overall navigation system (hamburger placement, mega menus, top bar vs. sidebar), and `ux-selection-controls` owns the choice between menus vs. radio/checkboxes for form selection.
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