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simple-english

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By vinta/hal-9000 (GitHub) · coding · 143 stars · scanned at commit ada6eb5

Use when the user explicitly asks for simple English, plain English, or for text a non-native English speaker can read easily — rewrites docs, READMEs, issues, comments, or UI text into plain words and translation-friendly grammar, still native-sounding. Prose the user signs in their own voice goes to write-like-me instead

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

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=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/vinta/hal-9000' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'ada6eb5ed0de3020027c7a59e5d0aeb76889528d' -- 'skills/simple-english' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'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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