STE — Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100)

STE is a controlled language: ~53 writing rules plus a dictionary of 875 approved words where each word has exactly one meaning per part of speech. Dictionary compliance CANNOT come from memory — words you would swear are approved ("qualified", "ensure", "should") are not. Only the Verified level below claims compliance, and every claim in it comes from the checker script, not from intuition.

STE is defined for English only. The STE text is always written in English first. If the user asked in another language or asks for a translation, you translate FROM the STE English as a second pass — never draft directly in the other language.

The source can be anything: a document, a merge-request description, a procedure — or something just discussed in the conversation that the user wants again in STE. The workflow is the same; for conversational re-explanations the cheap levels (Marked, Clean) are usually the right default to offer first.