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Ellipsis for Further Input

SHOULD

SHOULD: Ellipsis (`…`) for options that open follow-ups (eg, "Rename…") and loading states (eg, "Loading…", "Saving…", "Generating…")

Menu options that open follow-ups end with ellipsis

Bad

Good

Why it matters

An ellipsis (…) signals that more input or time is needed. Use it for menu items that open dialogs ("Rename…", "Delete…") and for processing states ("Saving…", "Loading…"). Don't use it for direct actions that complete immediately.

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.