On a related note I wrote a skill to apply the economist style guide to LLM generated writing https://github.com/TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin
Tends to produce relatively well structured prose that’s easy to edit.
Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
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#22It’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.
The readme looks to me concise and correct. Tested it and it works. Better than many human-written readmes I've seen around.
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#23Anyone tried this as an output style and not just as a skill?
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#24It’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.
They acknowledge this, but I really dislike whatever style they're using for the readme:
> Yes, this README breaks half of them. Marketing is explicitly out of STE scope. The skill knows that and stays in the docs.
> Where it refuses to go: marketing copy, blog voice, brand writing. Flat on purpose.
(Each sentence there has an emoji that HN cuts out)
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#25I took one of the examples ("Leveraging sqlpipe's robust...") and just prefixed it with this:
> Rewrite this using ASD-STE100 simplified technical English:
And you get a good-enough result, it seems? Maybe add another sentence or two for guidance, but what's with needing these giant skills, when ASD-STE100 was surely in the training material?
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#26Oh, 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…
Potentially related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068179
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#27No semicolons — write two sentences.
Oh lord.
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#28The day I have to negotiate and persuade the machine to stop talking shit rather than command it is the day I decide fuck it and go and farm geese or something.
Smells like today. I’ll take goose shit over this.
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#29I like the idea, but not sold on the skill.
But did lead to me finding https://vale.sh and its various available linters. Might give that a try.
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#30Anyone tried this as an output style and not just as a skill?
I've added the prompt to use the ASD English, on my CLAUDE.md when I learnt of the standard. The generated output is more tolerable to read, and is less confusing.
I like it, and I'll also try the Economist one on another thread here. I have global instructions on how Claude should try to write things like I do.
I generally avoid having lots of skills, security risk as I won't vet them all.