plain-language-audit SKILL.md skillA
plain-language-audit from jerseycheese/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/plain-language-audit@git:20261016.04e815bPins git:20261016.04e815b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jerseycheese/agent-skills
- Path
skills/plain-language-audit/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261016.04e815b, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 8, 2026
- Size
- 9,890 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Sweeps comments, docstrings, docs, and UI copy for jargon, AI writing tells, and wordy text. Auto-fixes clear swaps and surfaces judgment calls. Prose and tone only. Trigger on: "plain language audit", "find jargon", "sounds like AI wrote this", "too wordy".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Plain Language Audit A sweep for text that's harder to read than it needs to be — jargon standing in for a plainer word, AI writing tells that make prose sound generated instead of written, and verbosity that says less in more words. Covers code comments, docstrings, markdown docs, and user-facing UI copy/strings. It's prose and tone only. For code correctness or structure problems (fake fallbacks, dead logic), use `dead-code-cleanup` or `code-health-audit` instead. This is the prose counterpart to `doc-rot` (which fixes docs that are *wrong*) and `code-health-audit` (which fixes code that's *overengineered*) — this one fixes text that's *hard to read*, whether or not it's accurate. **Developer-facing text** (comments, docstrings, internal docs, PR/issue prose) gets the full treatment: plain language, AI-tell removal, tightening, and — where genuinely a rewrite rather than a mechanical swap — the user's own voice (apply the `voice` skill, canon at `~/.agents/voice.local.md`). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/plain-language-audit@sha256:d82c781e54e0b231The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.04e815b, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_auuqddbxnyegwjr6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 8, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 23 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261016.04e815b latest | 2026-10-16 | 04e815b | 9,890 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.48c7bd0 | 2026-08-08 | 48c7bd0 | 10,138 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.1ada0a4 | 2026-08-08 | 1ada0a4 | 8,752 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.43a6b27 | 2026-08-08 | 43a6b27 | 7,631 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9890 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
jerseycheese/agent-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_auuqddbxnyegwjr6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jerseycheese/agent-skills/plain-language-audit GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d82c781e54e0b2319ef53103e3dd7b44f692853f812a2369a24022bc93f43f34
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.