writing-simplified-technical-english
writing-simplified-technical-english is an agent skill published by posthog, listed under building agents. It lives in the PostHog/skills repository, which has 75 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Converts text into clear, unambiguous English using ASD-STE100 principles, ensuring one meaning per word, active voice, and simple tenses. Requires no specific credentials.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads PostHog/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add PostHog/skills
Maintenance
Write English that a reader cannot misread: one meaning per word, active voice, simple tenses, one idea per sentence, short sentences. Based on ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English), the controlled-language standard written for aircraft maintenance manuals. Use it for any prose an agent produces that someone else acts on. That covers reports and findings, PR descriptions and commit messages, instructions handed to another agent, tool descriptions, error messages, status summaries, and prompts. Also use it on request, with triggers like "simplify this", "make this readable", "too dense", "rewrite in STE", "simplified technical english", "ASD-STE100".
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| writing-simplified-technical-english (this page) | posthog | Write English that a reader cannot misread: one meaning per word, active voice, simple tenses, one idea per s… | 75 | 2026-10-25 |
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Common questions about writing-simplified-technical-english
- What does writing-simplified-technical-english do?
- Converts text into clear, unambiguous English using ASD-STE100 principles, ensuring one meaning per word, active voice, and simple tenses. Requires no specific credentials.
- How do I install writing-simplified-technical-english?
- Run npx skills add PostHog/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes writing-simplified-technical-english?
- posthog.
- Is writing-simplified-technical-english maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 75 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-25. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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