This skill helps technical writers and DevOps engineers strip jargon from complex documentation. By enforcing short sentences, active voice, and a one-word-one-meaning approach, it ensures that critical materials remain accessible to non-native readers and those outside the immediate field.
It is designed for high-stakes clarity in runbooks, incident reports, and API guides, offering a strict mode for full ASD-STE100 vocabulary compliance to meet professional technical communication standards.
Follow the documented setup, then try a first task.
Installs: Installs the Simple English skill only. It does not install the session hook or output style. · Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Goose, OpenCode
Run this terminal command to install the skill from AminBlg/SimpleEnglish.
npx skills add AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
Installs: Installs the Simple English skill, session hook, output style, and advisory writing checks supplied by the plugin. · Claude Code
Run this terminal command to add the marketplace and install the plugin.
claude plugin marketplace add AminBlg/SimpleEnglish && claude plugin install simple-english@simple-english
Installs: Installs the Simple English skill and session hook supplied by the Codex plugin. · Codex
Run these terminal commands to add the marketplace and install the plugin.
codex plugin marketplace add AminBlg/SimpleEnglish codex plugin add simple-english@simple-english
Before the hook's first run, review and trust it from `/hooks` in the Codex agent session.
Installs: Adds the Simple English rule block to an agent configuration or system prompt without installing the skill or plugins.
Copy the rule block from `prompts/system-prompt.md` into your system prompt, `AGENTS.md`, or `.cursorrules`. Use the 60-token version at the end of that page if the available prompt budget is small.
Uses simple-english
Use the simple-english skill in its default Plain mode. Rewrite this technical text in Simple English. Preserve all code, identifiers, commands, flags, file paths, quoted errors, product names, and facts exactly: [paste the technical text here].
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