clarify SKILL.md skillA

clarify from spoon94/skill-vault is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add spoon94/skill-vault/clarify@git:20261021.3bfb4e5

Pins git:20261021.3bfb4e5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
spoon94/skill-vault
Path
clarify/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261021.3bfb4e5, committed Oct 21, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 3, 2026
Size
9,520 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Rewrite deliverable text into controlled language per ASD-STE100 principles — in English (the standard itself) and in Chinese (the same principles adapted) — one meaning per word, active voice, short sentences, one instruction per sentence. Use when asked to clarify / simplify text/wording / disambiguate output, apply STE / STE100 / controlled English, make text safe for downstream agents, or non-native readers; or 消除歧义 / 受控中文 / 精简交付文本 / 重写 / 改写 / 术语统一 / 规范化用词.

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

# clarify — Controlled-Language Rewriting (EN/ZH)

Rewrite the **final deliverable text** into a controlled language per **ASD-STE100** principles — in English (the standard itself) and in Chinese (the same principles adapted to Chinese grammar). The rules apply **only to the output layer** — never let them leak into your reasoning, analysis, or drafting.

> **Hard rule — constraint placement.** Do all thinking, exploring, and drafting in normal full language first. Apply the controlled rewrite **only as the last transformation**, right before presenting text the user will consume or hand to another agent. Do not "write simply while you think" — enforced at the thought level it measurably degrades reasoning quality. Think freely, then constrain the surface.

## Scope

Use when the text will be **read by a human who needs unambiguous content** — or consumed by a downstream machine / non-native reader with no one to ask a follow-up question:

- Deliverables a person must act on correctly: instructions, reports, explanations, documentation. (STE's original purpose and Karpathy's use: "a lot more readable" for humans.)
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add spoon94/skill-vault/clarify@sha256:779ab2953c27e738

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.3bfb4e5, 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

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_tmcsr6ynhhcx3qim.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_tmcsr6ynhhcx3qim)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Oct 3, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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git:20261021.3bfb4e5 latest2026-10-21 3bfb4e5 9,520 BA view · diff
git:20261003.7176c322026-10-03 7176c32 9,507 BA view · diff
git:20261003.66d2cf32026-10-03 66d2cf3 9,330 BA view · diff
git:20261003.20b616b2026-10-03 20b616b 9,074 BA view · diff
git:20261003.9bfb58a2026-10-03 9bfb58a 9,067 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 (9520 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

spoon94/skill-vault · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tmcsr6ynhhcx3qim
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=spoon94/skill-vault/clarify
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/779ab2953c27e7382a7046214065452b6476b0f285ce6209e18899877be27464

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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