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TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin
Claude Code plugin that applies The Economist style guide - clarity, precision, brevity. Unofficial.
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Individual skills in this repository
- economist-style
economist-style/skills/economist-style
How it works
economist-style
When your agent uses it
Apply The Economist style guide to written content. Use when editing markdown, HTML, documentation, or any written text that needs professional editing for clarity, precision, and brevity. Detects weasel words, fillers, passive voice, and style issues.
What it loads into context
Frontmatter
57 tokensAlways available to the agent
SKILL.md
1,403 tokensWhen the skill is activated
Reference documents
19,752 tokensLoaded on request
Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.
The playbook
- Core Principles
- Orwell's Six Elementary Rules
- Tone: The "Do Nots"
- Analysis Workflow
- Output Format
- When Not to Apply
Files
../../../.claude-plugin/marketplace.jsonasset544 bytes../../.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonasset513 bytesSKILL.mdcore6,262 bytesreference/ABBREVIATIONS.mddoc5,769 bytesreference/CAPITALIZATION.mddoc6,602 bytesreference/CLARITY.mddoc4,295 bytesreference/COMMON-ERRORS.mddoc11,286 bytesreference/DIALECT-CONVENTIONS.mddoc7,943 bytesreference/ECONOMIST-SIGNATURE.mddoc1,751 bytesreference/NUMBERS.mddoc5,657 bytesreference/PRECISION.mddoc5,658 bytesreference/PUNCTUATION.mddoc7,812 bytesreference/SPECIAL-CONTEXTS.mddoc7,105 bytesreference/STRUCTURE.mddoc6,721 bytesreference/TONE.mddoc7,898 bytesreference/WORDS.mddoc3,034 bytes
Read SKILL.md
# The Economist Style Guide
Apply these principles to all written content, including markdown files, HTML, code documentation, and technical writing.
## Core Principles
1. **Clarity first**: Use short words, active voice, and concrete examples
2. **Precision**: Replace vague quantifiers with specific numbers and facts
3. **Brevity**: Choose concise over verbose expressions
4. **Dialect awareness**: Match the document's existing spelling and conventions (British, American, etc.)
## Orwell's Six Elementary Rules
The guide's introduction rests on George Orwell's six rules (from "Politics and the English Language", 1946): clarity of thought first, then say it as simply as possible.Skills included
- economist-style
Repository facts
- License
- MIT
- Created
- Dec 30, 2025
- Last pushed
- Aug 1, 2026
- Forks
- 6
- Open issues
- 0
- Project activity
- Slowing
Before you install
Instructions onlyAutomated signals, not a guarantee
Checked Nov 4, 2026
- No broad tool permissions
- No dangerous shell commands
- 4 network referencesin 1 file: economist-style/.claude-plugin/plugin.json:6
- No hidden or obfuscated text
- No instruction overrides
- No executable scripts
- No access to secrets
- No requests to vote in Hot
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economist-style/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
- Network accessline 6
"name": "Tom Dickson" }, "homepage": "https://tom-dickson.com/blog/teaching-claude-economist-style/", - Network accessline 7
}, "homepage": "https://tom-dickson.com/blog/teaching-claude-economist-style/", "repository": "https://github.com/TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin", - Network accessline 8
"homepage": "https://tom-dickson.com/blog/teaching-claude-economist-style/", - Network accessline 9
"repository": "https://github.com/TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin",
How the signals fit together
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Works with
| Agent | Status | Evidence | Install to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Native | Manifest .claude-plugin/marketplace.json | .claude/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Codex | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md economist-style/skills/economist-style/SKILL.md | .agents/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Cursor | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md economist-style/skills/economist-style/SKILL.md | .cursor/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Gemini CLI | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md economist-style/skills/economist-style/SKILL.md | .gemini/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| GitHub Copilot | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md economist-style/skills/economist-style/SKILL.md | .github/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| OpenCode | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md economist-style/skills/economist-style/SKILL.md | .opencode/skills/<skill-name>/ |
- Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
- Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
- Unknown No evidence either way.
Derived automatically from paths, manifests and frontmatter. Not tested on each agent.
