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skills/plain-style/SKILL.md). Install upstream withnpx skills add NoahIsARider/Avalanche --skill plain-style. Copyright stays with the author.
Plain Style
Editing pass. Preserve every fact and number; remove everything else.
Cut on sight
- Hedging stacks: it could be argued that perhaps, may potentially.
- Empty openers: It is worth noting that, In today's world, As we all know.
- Meta-commentary: as mentioned above, in this section we will.
- Duplicated modifiers: very unique, completely eliminated.
- Adverb crutches on speech verbs: stated clearly, argued strongly.
- Stacked nominalisations: the implementation of the optimisation of → "optimising".
Prefer
- Concrete subject + strong verb + object.
- One idea per sentence; split at the second "and".
- Parallel structure in any list of three or more.
- Consistent terminology: one concept keeps one name for the whole document.
Do not
- Change meaning, tense of results, or any numeric value.
- Flatten voice where voice is the point (dialogue, epigraphs, first-person).
- Replace plain words with fancier ones.
