writing-clearly-and-concisely
Installation
Summary
Apply Strunk's timeless writing rules to improve clarity and professionalism across all prose.
- Covers 18 core rules spanning grammar, punctuation, composition principles, and common usage mistakes
- Emphasizes active voice, positive framing, concrete language, and ruthless word elimination as key clarity drivers
- Designed for documentation, commit messages, error messages, UI copy, reports, and any prose humans will read
- Includes token-efficient subagent dispatch pattern: write a draft, then have a subagent copyedit using the full style guide when context is constrained
SKILL.md
Writing Clearly and Concisely
Overview
William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style (1918) teaches you to write clearly and cut ruthlessly.
WARNING: elements-of-style.md consumes ~12,000 tokens. Read it only when writing or editing prose.
When to Use This Skill
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.