forgiveness-undo-and-soft-delete

What problem does it solve?

This skill helps you design forgiveness through reversibility so users can undo or recover from actions they regret, especially when those actions feel destructive.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Reversibility patterns selection: choose between synchronous undo, toast-with-undo, soft delete with recovery, version history, and undo-send based on action type and risk.
• Implementation-ready guidance: provides concrete design and engineering patterns (undo stacks, optimistic UI, recovery windows, and snapshot/history approaches).
• Operationalizing forgiveness: covers recovery discoverability, appropriate recovery window lengths, and anti-patterns that cause confusion or irrecoverable mistakes.
• Use Case Examples: use toast-with-undo for one-off archive/delete actions, soft delete for account/file recovery (e.g., trash/archive views), and version history for document editing where users need to revert any prior state.

Quick Start

Use the skill when specifying how your app should handle undo and recovery for an action like deleting or archiving items, including the recovery window and the UI affordances users will discover.