plain-english-content skillA
plain-english-content is agent-read markdown (skill) from openhands/extensions: This skill should be used when the user asks to "write in plain English", "make this easier to read", "rewrite guidance", "improve report clarity", or produce accessible public-facing prose. It applies plain English content design principles: active voice, front-loaded content, sentence case, and no bold or italics for emphasis..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
Open content up so anyone can understand it the first time they read it, without losing substance, nuance or precision. Aim to open up, not dumb down. Apply the GOV.UK style guide approach: plain English, user needs first, active voice, front-loaded structure and accessible formatting. Use this skill for reports, research write-ups, guidance, documentation, summaries, and public-facing prose where clarity and accessibility matter. When writing a report, default to this style. When briefing a research agent, pass this skill so the report follows the same style. ## Content design principles - Start from the user need. Write what the reader needs to know to do or decide something, not what the writer wants to say. - Front-load everything. Put the most important point first in the document, each section, each paragraph and each sentence. Use the inverted pyramid: conclusion first, then detail, then background. - Keep one idea per sentence and one topic per paragraph. Split sentences that contain more than one idea. - Be specific and concrete. Give the number, name and date. Cut vague abstractions like "a range of", "going forward" and "in terms of". …
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How to install
mdr add openhands/extensions/plain-english-content@git:20260629.6e46834mdr add openhands/extensions/plain-english-content@sha256:2ef939ec154a2555Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_uweom7zdzzfutfm5)
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Versions
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 (6023 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
openhands/extensions · 150 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uweom7zdzzfutfm5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=openhands/extensions/plain-english-content GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2ef939ec154a2555a1018233ab818a4b0c92b16668c747b1ad9886a567c04ca2
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