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simple-english from miklschmidt/archboard is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add miklschmidt/archboard/simple-english@v2.1.1

Pins v2.1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: miklschmidt/archboard
Path: .agents/skills/simple-english/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: v2.1.1, committed Oct 25, 2026
Size: 7,687 bytes
Repository stars: 4
License: a license file GitHub does not identify

Write or rewrite text in plain, layman-readable English in the spirit of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English: short sentences, active voice, simple tenses, one word one meaning, condition before command, every technical term defined at first use, no AI slop. Default mode is Plain. Strict mode applies full STE vocabulary compliance when the user names STE, ASD-STE100, or compliance. Use for documentation, READMEs, runbooks, procedures, error messages, release notes, incident reports, API…

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

# Simple English

Write plain English that a smart reader outside your field understands on one read. The rules come from ASD-STE100, the controlled language that aerospace uses for maintenance manuals. Two registers exist: the document you write or rewrite, and the reply you type in chat. Each has its own short rule set below.

## The Document

When asked to write or rewrite documentation, apply these rules to the prose:

1. Classify each passage. Procedural text tells the reader what to do: imperative mood, 20 words per sentence, one instruction per sentence. Descriptive text explains: simple tenses, 25 words per sentence, one topic per paragraph, six sentences per paragraph at most.
2. Never touch code, identifiers, commands, flags, file paths, quoted errors, product names, or facts. When the source gives no number or cause, keep the general statement.
3. Condition before command, with a comma: "If the build fails, read the log."
4. Use simple tenses and active voice. No present perfect ("has completed" → "completed"). No "-ing" verb after a comma (", making it easy" → new sentence). Name the actor: "You run the migration."
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add miklschmidt/archboard/simple-english@sha256:2f25072b7edd707d

The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.1.1, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_mitbrlu7tgr52yog.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mitbrlu7tgr52yog)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 25, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
v2.1.1 latest	2026-10-25	3b43540	7,687 B	A	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 (7687 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

miklschmidt/archboard · 4 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-09 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mitbrlu7tgr52yog
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=miklschmidt/archboard/simple-english
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2f25072b7edd707d525d597b388f473b46baad100a3232e13f60e30b0fcc4a82

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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