write-clearly SKILL.md skillA
write-clearly from photostructure/coding-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add photostructure/coding-skills/write-clearly@git:20261004.6829abdPins git:20261004.6829abd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- photostructure/coding-skills
- Path
plugins/coding/skills/write-clearly/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261004.6829abd, committed Oct 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 4,356 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Draft and revise prose for clarity, precision, concision, unambiguous execution, and honest emphasis using Orwell's rules, classic composition principles, modern plain-language guidance, and a specialized standard for agent instructions. Use for documentation, explanations, reports, emails, UI copy, agent instructions, plans, reviews, specifications, handoffs, or any request to simplify, tighten, clarify, humanize, remove jargon, make text sound less machine-generated, or reduce ambiguous…
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
# Write Clearly
Make the intended meaning easy for the intended reader to grasp. Less is more:
precise, concise wording respects the reader's time and attention, and every
needless word spends both. Preserve facts, uncertainty, necessary detail, and
the author's recognizable voice.
## Workflow
1. Identify the reader, purpose, desired response, format, and tone. State only
assumptions that could materially change the result.
2. Fix structure before sentences. Lead with the conclusion, request, or action.
Keep one topic per paragraph. Use descriptive headings; use lists or tables
only when they make real sequences or comparisons easier to scan.
3. Apply Orwell's tests:
- Replace stale or mixed figures of speech with fresh wording or literal fact.
Test each surviving figure by its literal image: if the picture cannot be
drawn ("overarching pillars that undergird", "point a toolkit at a
problem"), the words were paired by habit or co-occurrence, not meaning.
Fluent phrasing over an incoherent image is the strongest marker of
machine-generated prose.
- Prefer the shortest familiar word that is equally exact.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add photostructure/coding-skills/write-clearly@sha256:e820a2b2cb6e5595The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.6829abd, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 28, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261004.6829abd latest | 2026-10-04 | 6829abd | 4,356 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.d8935aa | 2026-08-20 | d8935aa | 4,342 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260810.4cb399f | 2026-08-10 | 4cb399f | 4,284 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.a0c27fa | 2026-08-09 | a0c27fa | 4,166 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.f95e109 | 2026-07-28 | f95e109 | 3,458 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 (4356 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
photostructure/coding-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_r7yesgcksjxwbxv7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=photostructure/coding-skills/write-clearly GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e820a2b2cb6e55953b6e76980fc17febe6853660f3fd9ab2b5f086a32892bbe6
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