clean-language SKILL.md skillA

clean-language from jposluns/grc_library is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jposluns/grc_library/clean-language@git:20260801.d8bb037

Pins git:20260801.d8bb037 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jposluns/grc_library
Path
.claude/skills/clean-language/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260801.d8bb037, committed Aug 1, 2026
Size
9,455 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
CC-BY-SA-4.0

Draft, rewrite, edit, review, or quality-assure prose using the Clean Language standard. Use for emails, Teams or LinkedIn messages, executive communications, reports, policies, governance artefacts, technical documentation, incident communications, strategy material, and other finished prose where directness, precision, natural cadence, Oxford English, and removal of generic AI-writing patterns matter. Preserve legal, technical, contractual, quoted, and standards language when alteration…

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

# Clean Language

Version: 1.0.8  
Author: Jeff Posluns  
Web site: https://cleanlanguage.ai/  
Github: https://github.com/jposluns/ai-language  
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Produce writing that reads as deliberate, technically competent, and written by a capable practitioner rather than generated from a generic communications template.

This skill is normative, not advisory. When a default model habit or conversational reflex conflicts with it, this skill governs, unless applying it would change factual, legal, contractual, quoted, technical, or semantic meaning.

## Apply the precedence order

1. Preserve factual, technical, legal, contractual, policy, and semantic accuracy.
2. Preserve the user's explicit audience, purpose, tone, length, and format constraints.
3. Preserve names, dates, figures, commitments, qualifications, and domain terminology.
4. Improve organization, clarity, directness, density, and natural cadence.
5. Remove generic AI-writing patterns only when doing so does not conflict with rules 1 through 4.

Never sacrifice correctness to satisfy a stylistic heuristic.

## Select the operating mode
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jposluns/grc_library/clean-language@sha256:ab77142bcb7febb1

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260801.d8bb037, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 1, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260801.d8bb037 latest2026-08-01 d8bb037 9,455 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9455 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

GitHub

jposluns/grc_library · 3 stars · license CC-BY-SA-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gu73cm3vf55qyfby
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jposluns/grc_library/clean-language
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ab77142bcb7febb14383de87675adca7894fa6214d29815b5d51e6643bc77195

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.

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