talk-normal

Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection.

talk-normal is a system prompt (plus a shell-script helper) that strips AI slop — bullet-point padding, hollow affirmations, corporate filler — from any LLM while preserving all useful information. Tested at ~73% character reduction on GPT-4o-mini and GPT-5.4 with no information loss.

How it works

The project is a single prompt.md file (the system prompt) plus optional shell helpers. You copy the prompt text into the "System" field of any LLM interface or API call.

repo layout
├── prompt.md          ← the system prompt (main artifact)
├── CHANGELOG.md       ← rule history
├── CONTRIBUTING.md    ← how to add rules
└── TEST_RESULTS.md    ← before/after comparisons