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simple-english

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By TanStack/ai (GitHub) · coding · 3,345 stars · scanned at commit 975ec3e

Write or rewrite technical text with the rules of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English so it is clear, unambiguous, and free of AI slop. Use for documentation, READMEs, runbooks, procedures, error messages, release notes, incident reports, and API guides. Also use when the user says "STE", "Simplified Technical English", "ASD-STE100", "de-slop", "make this readable", "write for non-native readers", or asks for docs that translate well. Enforces the standard's 53 rules: 20/25-word sentence li…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'simple-english' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'simple-english' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named simple-english already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/TanStack/ai' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '975ec3ef1e3c24ba8ef2e6421278a6ac5fd55492' -- '.agents/skills/simple-english' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.agents/skills/simple-english' ~/.agents/skills/'simple-english' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'simple-english' ~/.claude/skills/'simple-english' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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• TanStack/ai/.claude/skills/simple-english
• TanStack/ai/.grok/skills/simple-english