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Tradelord223/plain-english
An open Agent Skill that turns technical evidence into clear, human explanations without changing meaning or operational state.
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Individual skills in this repository
- plain-english
.grok/skills/plain-english - plain-english
skills/plain-english
How it works
plain-english
When your agent uses it
Explain technical evidence clearly and naturally without changing meaning, certainty, obligations, operational state, or exact tokens.
What it loads into context
Frontmatter
74 tokensAlways available to the agent
SKILL.md
1,741 tokensWhen the skill is activated
Reference documents
2,073 tokensLoaded on request
Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.
The playbook
- Work from truth anchors
- Match the reader and depth
- Sound like a person, not a response template
- Match the job
- Explain behavior, not vocabulary
- Keep artifacts exact
- Write naturally
- Final semantic check
Files
SKILL.mdcore8,213 bytesSKILL.mdcore8,213 bytesSKILL.mdcore8,213 bytesSKILL.mdcore8,213 bytesSKILL.mdcore8,213 bytesreferences/human-voice.mddoc4,708 bytesreferences/precision-contract.mddoc5,479 bytes
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# Plain English for Technical Work
Make the answer easier to understand and act on without changing what the
source proves. Plain English is a translation of behavior for a reader, not a
dictionary of simpler substitutes.
## Work from truth anchors
Before rewriting, identify the details that must survive compression:
- the outcome and current operational state
- the evidence and what was or was not checked
- certainty: confirmed, likely, possible, estimated, or unknown
- obligation: permission, capability, recommendation, or requirementplain-english
When your agent uses it
Turn technical evidence into clear, natural, audience-appropriate user-facing explanations without changing meaning, certainty, obligations, operational state, or exact technical tokens. Use for change summaries, status and error reports, walkthroughs, handoffs, release notes, how or why explanations, and requests to make an agent's technical communication sound more human. Do not rewrite raw code, commands, logs, quoted errors, or specifications; explain those artifacts separately.
What it loads into context
Frontmatter
109 tokensAlways available to the agent
SKILL.md
1,776 tokensWhen the skill is activated
Reference documents
2,073 tokensLoaded on request
Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.
The playbook
- Work from truth anchors
- Match the reader and depth
- Sound like a person, not a response template
- Match the job
- Explain behavior, not vocabulary
- Keep artifacts exact
- Write naturally
- Final semantic check
Files
SKILL.mdcore8,388 bytesSKILL.mdcore8,388 bytesSKILL.mdcore8,388 bytesSKILL.mdcore8,388 bytesSKILL.mdcore8,388 bytesreferences/human-voice.mddoc4,708 bytesreferences/precision-contract.mddoc5,479 bytes
Read SKILL.md
# Plain English for Technical Work
Make the answer easier to understand and act on without changing what the
source proves. Plain English is a translation of behavior for a reader, not a
dictionary of simpler substitutes.
## Work from truth anchors
Before rewriting, identify the details that must survive compression:
- the outcome and current operational state
- the evidence and what was or was not checked
- certainty: confirmed, likely, possible, estimated, or unknown
- obligation: permission, capability, recommendation, or requirementSkills included
- plain-english
- plain-english
Repository facts
- License
- MIT
- Created
- Aug 25, 2026
- Last pushed
- Sep 1, 2026
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Project activity
- Slowing
Before you install
Instructions onlyAutomated signals, not a guarantee
Checked Nov 4, 2026
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- No broad tool permissions
- No dangerous shell commands
- No network access
- No hidden or obfuscated text
- No instruction overrides
- No executable scripts
- No access to secrets
- No requests to vote in Hot
How the signals fit together
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Works with
| Agent | Status | Evidence | Install to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Native | Path .claude/skills/plain-english/SKILL.md | .claude/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Codex | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md .grok/skills/plain-english/SKILL.md | .agents/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Cursor | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md .grok/skills/plain-english/SKILL.md | .cursor/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Gemini CLI | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md .grok/skills/plain-english/SKILL.md | .gemini/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| GitHub Copilot | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md .grok/skills/plain-english/SKILL.md | .github/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| OpenCode | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md .grok/skills/plain-english/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.
