writing-clearly-and-concisely

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• Writing Clearly and Concisely
• Overview
• When to Use This Skill
• Limited Context Strategy
• Elements of Style
• Rules
• Reference Files
• AI Writing Patterns to Avoid

Write with clarity and force. This skill covers what to do (Strunk) and what not to do (AI patterns). Use this skill whenever you write prose for humans: Documentation, README files, technical explanations Commit messages, pull request descriptions Error messages, UI copy, help text, comments Reports, summaries, or any explanation Editing to improve clarity If you're writing sentences for a human to read, use this skill. When context is tight: 1. Write your draft using judgment 2. Dispatch a subagent with your draft and the relevant section file 3. Have the subagent copyedit and return the revision Loading a single section (1,000-4,500 tokens) instead of everything saves significant context. William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style (1918) teaches you to write clearly and cut ruthlessly. Elementary Rules of Usage (Grammar/Punctuation): 1. Form possessive singular by adding 's 2. Use comma after each term in series except last 3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas 4. Comma before conjunction introducing co-ordinate clause 5. Don't join independent clauses by comma 6. Don't break sentences in two 7. Participial phrase at beginning refers to grammatical subject Elementary

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