plain-language-review SKILL.md skillB
plain-language-review from gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns/plain-language-review@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns
- Path
.agents/skills/frontend/plain-language-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 22, 2026
- Size
- 11,958 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- CC0-1.0
Review content for federal plain language compliance following PlainLanguage.gov guidelines.
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
# Skill: Federal Plain Language Review Review content for compliance with federal plain language guidelines. Identifies complex language, jargon, and readability issues. Provides specific recommendations to improve clarity for general audiences. ## When to Use - Reviewing page content before publication - Simplifying technical documentation for public audiences - Improving readability of instructions or forms - User asks "make this clearer" or "simplify this text" - Before user testing with non-expert audiences ## Prerequisites - Text content to review (HTML, Markdown, or plain text) - Understanding of the target audience - Context about required technical terms or legal language ## Procedure ### Step 1: Identify Target Audience Clarify who will read this content: - [ ] General public (8th grade reading level) - [ ] Subject matter experts (higher technical vocabulary acceptable) - [ ] Specific demographic (age, language proficiency) ### Step 2: Run Automated Readability Analysis Use deterministic tools to compute readability metrics: #### Option A: Using readability_score.py (Included) ```bash # From the frontend skills directory …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns/plain-language-review@sha256:e1c9f36de3d2b45bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_xrio5dficc47g6hm)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 22, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 15 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-08-19 | 0ea5bac | 11,958 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-11 | a73f9c1 | 11,891 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-28 | ea6ea67 | 11,869 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-29 | a2aa1ac | 11,402 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-22 | c69b6a0 | 11,341 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11958 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns · 16 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xrio5dficc47g6hm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gsa-tts/agentic-coding-patterns/plain-language-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e1c9f36de3d2b45bff64729624f2af8d70600ca7db7940231adc8dd8c6296ea4
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