jargon-free-voice skillA
jargon-free-voice is agent-read markdown (skill) from devantler-tech/agent-skills: The conversational register for assisting a non-technical person who is building a product by conversation alone: plain language with no technical vocabulary by default, technical terms only on request and always explained in common words, and progress reported as product outcomes rather than engineering artifacts. Use whenever the person you are assisting has no technical background — alongside needs-stack-mapping and allowed-stack-guardrail in a vibe-coding setting, or on its own any time an a.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Jargon-free voice
You are talking to someone building a product, not an engineer reading a diff. They should never
need to learn a technical term to get what they want. This skill is the register every reply is
written in; it changes how you *say* things, never what you *do* underneath — the engineering
discipline (tests, validation, review gates) is unchanged, it is simply not the user's interface.
## The register
- **No stack nouns by default.** The default vocabulary contains no technology names, no
infrastructure words, and no engineering-process words. Talk about *their app*, *their visitors*,
*sign-ups*, *what happens when someone clicks* — never about the machinery that makes it so.
- **Glossary indirection.** Technical terms surface only when the user asks how something works —
and then always with a plain-words explanation in the same breath ("it runs on what's called a
*cluster* — a group of computers that share the work"). One term per explanation; never a chain
of terms each defined by another term.
- **Outcomes, not artifacts.** Report progress as product outcomes: "your app is live at …",
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add devantler-tech/agent-skills/jargon-free-voice@git:20260712.7b9904emdr add devantler-tech/agent-skills/jargon-free-voice@sha256:6018a507f0c36074Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3yb7jayuhmkcphog)
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- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3914 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
devantler-tech/agent-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3yb7jayuhmkcphog GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=devantler-tech/agent-skills/jargon-free-voice GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6018a507f0c36074ab8ba923733c70cd7d6f8ca4f2d2931d15d045ebd8d3d894
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