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Guided journey from a shipped app that works but feels rough to a product that fits the job, flows without friction, reads clearly, and persuades honestly. Orchestrates nine skills phase by phase - jobs-to-be-done, ux-heuristics, design-everyday-things, refactoring-ui, microinteractions, made-to-stick, influence-psychology, high-perf-browser, steve-jobs-design-review - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (CUSTOMER.md, DESIGN.md, POSITIONING.md, IMPROVE-APP-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to fix a clunky product, cut UX friction, sharpen in-app copy, or says 'the app works but feels rough'. Not for code, tests, or hardening - use improve-code-quality (fresh prototype) or remove-technical-debt (aged); no app yet, create-app; needs growth loops, grow-app; marketing-site friction, improve-website; one leaking flow, conversion-optimization. For one framework in isolation, invoke that skill directly.

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# Improve an App

The app already ships and works — users, screens, a real flow — but the experience feels rough where it
should feel effortless. Across nine phases this journey fixes what users feel, in evidence order: re-anchor
on the job, remove friction, polish the look and the moments, sharpen the words, persuade honestly, and end
with a review brutal enough to cut. It is interactive (the agent asks before deciding) and resumable (state
lives in `docs/`). Code-level causes route out to the code journeys — this pass fixes the product experience.

## Core Principle

**Fix what users feel, in evidence order: re-anchor on the job the app is hired for, remove friction before
polish, sharpen the words, persuade honestly, and end with a review brutal enough to cut.** A prettier
screen on a confusing flow loses users at the same rate — the order of the phases is the whole game.
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