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Terminology Dictionary

Agree on one word per concept, and use it in the UI, the docs, and support.

moderate User Experience

What it adds

A single authoritative list of the product's concepts with the approved user-facing name for each, its deprecated alternatives, and its grammatical forms.

What your agent is told to do

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    Walk the app's navigation, headings, table columns, and settings and record every noun it uses for a concept. Where two words describe the same thing, pick one, record the other as deprecated, and change the strings.

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    Record the internal name alongside the user-facing one for every concept whose database table, API field, or code identifier differs from what the interface says, so nobody assumes they must match.

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    Give each term its grammatical forms explicitly — singular, plural, the verb where one exists, and whether it is capitalised mid-sentence — because these are exactly the details that drift.

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    Make the dictionary the source the localisation files are keyed against, so renaming a concept produces a visible list of translations to revisit rather than silently leaving the old word in every other language.

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    Do not rename a concept in the interface without also handling the places the old word persists: URLs, saved searches, exported column headers, help articles, and the words your existing users already say to support.

Edge cases it handles

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  • The internal name and the user-facing name are allowed to differ, and often should. Recording both prevents an engineer renaming the UI to match a column, or a writer assuming the API exposes the word on screen.
  • Retired words do not disappear on the day they are replaced. Keep deprecated terms listed with their replacement so support, search, and old help articles can still resolve them.
  • Plurals, possessives, and verb forms are where consistency breaks first, so each entry must carry them rather than leaving them to whoever writes the next string.
  • A term change must propagate to every localisation file at once, and the strings awaiting a new translation must be visible rather than quietly falling back to the old wording.
  • Terms that are legally or contractually fixed — a plan name, a regulated document type — must be marked as unchangeable.
  • Words that already mean something specific in the user's own industry must not be reused for a different concept in the app.
  • The sentence patterns, tone, and error structure around these words belong to Microcopy Guidelines; this dictionary settles only which word is correct.

Definition of done

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  • Each concept has exactly one approved user-facing term.
  • Every entry records its internal name where that differs from the interface.
  • Singular, plural, verb form, and capitalisation are recorded per term.
  • Deprecated terms are listed with their replacement and remain searchable.
  • The interface, navigation, help content, and localisation files use the approved terms with no exceptions.
  • Renaming a term surfaces the affected translations rather than leaving them stale.
  • The feature matches the existing design system.
  • No existing functionality is broken.

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How it works

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    Copy the link

    Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.

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    Give it to your AI

    Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.

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    It inspects, then implements

    Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.

Works with your stack

These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.

Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.