talk-normal

A curated system prompt that stops your LLM from writing like a LinkedIn post. Measured: 71% character reduction on GPT-4o-mini, 56% on GPT-5.4, across 10 prompts in English and Chinese, without losing information.

What this skill does

When invoked, this skill installs the talk-normal rules into your workspace's AGENTS.md file as an always-on behavior modifier. After install, every reply your OpenClaw agent produces follows the rules in prompt.md. The rules live between # --- talk-normal BEGIN --- and # --- talk-normal END --- markers so they do not conflict with your existing rules in AGENTS.md.

This is not a workflow skill you invoke per turn. It is a one-time installer that makes your agent permanently less verbose until you uninstall.

How to run

To install or update talk-normal in the current workspace:

bash install.sh

The script is idempotent: running it again replaces the existing talk-normal block in place with the latest rules. Nothing else in your AGENTS.md is touched.