What a wonderful skill. I hate the long and verbose do strings or docs LLMs spit out. This will make a great addition to my docu agent.
And I agree, maybe I should use this for my emails too
Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
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#12Okay here's one of the outputs: > Before you start, make sure that your AWS credentials are correct. If they are not, S3 rejects the upload with a permission error. Wouldn't it be better to write: Before start, ensure AWS credentials are correct. Otherwise, S3 rejects uploads with permission error.
The example is unambiguous. Your modification is ambiguous at best. !=
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#13Oh, is ASD-STE100 this week’s mindless productivity/AI-bro trend? Ads-STE100: Simplified Technical English - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101215 ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English for LLMs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065956 ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49075687 Show HN: Claude Skill for ASD-STE100 – Simplified English - https://news.y…
What’s it like to be this abrasive about people simply doing things?
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#14Okay here's one of the outputs: > Before you start, make sure that your AWS credentials are correct. If they are not, S3 rejects the upload with a permission error. Wouldn't it be better to write: Before start, ensure AWS credentials are correct. Otherwise, S3 rejects uploads with permission error.
Which one would do better in a college essay? I think the original one, and it has higher word count.
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#15Oh, is ASD-STE100 this week’s mindless productivity/AI-bro trend? Ads-STE100: Simplified Technical English - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101215 ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English for LLMs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065956 ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49075687 Show HN: Claude Skill for ASD-STE100 – Simplified English - https://news.y…
You didn’t link to it but I looked back at my very few submissions and realized that I had posted it in 2019. I thought it sounded familiar!
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#16["Skill", "Force"] Pick one.
Here is the revised post title that follows ASD‑STE100 Simplified Technical English rules:
"Agent Skill to Enforce ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English in Documents"
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#17It’s ironic that the README has all the tells of being LLM-written:
> 53 numbered rules, 9 sections, written in 1983 by people whose readers die when a sentence is ambiguous. The ones doing the heavy lifting: …
Not really a promising tell for a writing skill, IMO.
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#18Okay here's one of the outputs: > Before you start, make sure that your AWS credentials are correct. If they are not, S3 rejects the upload with a permission error. Wouldn't it be better to write: Before start, ensure AWS credentials are correct. Otherwise, S3 rejects uploads with permission error.
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#19I wish this were selectable as the default output style.
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#20Okay here's one of the outputs: > Before you start, make sure that your AWS credentials are correct. If they are not, S3 rejects the upload with a permission error. Wouldn't it be better to write: Before start, ensure AWS credentials are correct. Otherwise, S3 rejects uploads with permission error.
Violates rule 4.2: Do not omit words or use contractions to shorten sentences. Keep articles, keep "that".