Individual skill
plain-english
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.
skills/plain-english/SKILL.md
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- Matches the observed repository HEAD
- Yes
- Scanner rules are current
- Yes
- Repository scan complete
- No
- Skill scan complete
- No
- Observed behavior
- Instructions only
- Last checked
- Nov 11, 2026
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- 15
- Repository last updated
- Sep 1, 2026
- License
- MIT
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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 requirement