plain-writing
by docwriter-org4 months agoWrites and edits prose in a plain and boring style: simple everyday words, complete sentences, no dashes, no jargon, and no analogies. Use when drafting or revising documents, Notion pages, reports, summaries, READMEs, emails, slides, commit messages, or PR descriptions, or when the user asks to simplify, clean up, tighten, reword, or make writing clearer. Use when the user invokes /plain-writing deslopify or asks to deslopify an agent response. Do not apply to code, only to the words around it.
Install
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Open your terminal
- Mac: Press ⌘ Space, type "Terminal", press Enter
- Windows: Press Win R, type "cmd", press Enter
Paste the command above and press Enter
Use the Copy command button, then paste in your terminal (Mac: ⌘V, Windows: Ctrl V).
Restart Claude Code
Close and reopen Claude Code, or start a new session, so it picks up the new skill.
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"only one person asked, but here is my "plain writing" skill: courtesy of our (ongoing) DocWriter project, which is teaching us about ai slopwords & how..."
"only one person asked, but here is my "plain writing" skill: courtesy of our (ongoing) DocWriter project, which is teaching us about ai slopwords & how..."
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