What problem does it solve? Artifacts like design docs, functions, data models, and commit messages often fail to transfer ideas to their audience even when every sentence is technically correct. This Skill provides a systematic method to create clear artifacts, review existing ones for communication barriers, and turn vague stakeholder requests into precise requirements. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Creation mode: Apply the audience contract, verbalization test, and six-barrier taxonomy (buried lede, undefined term, ambiguous reference, missing bridge, wall of detail, fuzzy abstraction) as a silent quality lens while writing documents, code, and models. - Critique mode: Run a structured articulation review on an existing artifact, producing findings ordered by severity with concrete fixes and a verdict distinguishing wording, boundary, and thinking problems. - Elicitation mode: Convert vague stakeholder requests into precise requirements using critical-incident questions, barrier-matched probes, and atomic fact verbalization. - Use Case: A stakeholder says "we need a Customer type." Use elicitation mode to recover the underlying need, verbalize atomic facts like "Each Order is placed by at most one Customer," and surface undecided business decisions before modeling. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to run an articulation review on your design doc, function, or data model to identify clarity barriers and get concrete fixes.
