simple-english SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

simple-english from alexander-danilenko/cortex-ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add alexander-danilenko/cortex-ai-skills/simple-english@git:20261013.ecfffa1

Pins git:20261013.ecfffa1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade

A, 17 of 17 checks passed

Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

alexander-danilenko/cortex-ai-skills

Path

plugins/common/cortex-communication/skills/simple-english/SKILL.md

Versions recorded

1

Latest version

git:20261013.ecfffa1, committed Oct 13, 2026

Size

13,676 bytes

Repository stars

17

License

MIT

Write or audit technical text against ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English so a tired, non-native reader understands it on the first pass: 20-word procedural and 25-word descriptive sentence limits, imperative steps, condition before command, one word for one meaning, and only the approved modals can/will/must. Use for READMEs, runbooks, procedures, error messages, release notes, incident reports, API guides, UI copy, and agent instructions. Trigger on: "STE…

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

# Simplified Technical English

ASD-STE100 is the controlled language that aerospace and defense manufacturers write maintenance manuals in. It assumes a reader who is tired, under time pressure, and reading English as a second or third language. Under that assumption a sentence that needs a second pass is a defect, so the standard removes every construction that causes one.

The same constructions are what makes generated prose read as generated: rotating synonyms, hedged claims, 40-word sentences carrying three facts, adjectives with no measurement behind them. Fix the text for the tired reader and the machine smell goes with it.

Write so each sentence survives one read.

## Pick the job

**Rewrite** — produce compliant text. Follow the passes below in order.

**Audit** — report violations without changing the text. Give the rule number, the offending span, and a compliant rewrite for each. Read `references/rules.md` before you cite anything: the numbering is not intuitive (Rule 3.1 is about verb forms, not sentence length) and citing from memory produces confident, wrong references.

## Pick the depth

Invocation argument: `$ARGUMENTS`
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

mdr add alexander-danilenko/cortex-ai-skills/simple-english@sha256:986ae4af167ba6f6

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_jrfcfgrj5zs4kbli.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jrfcfgrj5zs4kbli)

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 13, 2026.

Audit of the latest version

Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jrfcfgrj5zs4kbli
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alexander-danilenko/cortex-ai-skills/simple-english
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/986ae4af167ba6f6ea5c755d800671c5cc30e7de0f3867a7a63f1e550cfeb216

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.

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