writing-natural

Apply the Elements of Style rules: use active voice, positive statements, concrete language, and omit needless words. This Skill reads the full style guide first, then writes prose following those rules for any human-facing text.

writing-natural uses the Elements of Style and keeps a natural voice with emphatic sentence endings. writing-simply uses ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, strips voice for plainness, and includes a linter. Pick one per document since they conflict sentence by sentence.

Use writing-simply when text must be plain, uniform, and machine-checkable, or when the user asks for plain language or AI slop removed. Use writing-natural when the prose should retain a voice and rhetorical emphasis.

It applies six rules: Rule 10 (active voice), Rule 11 (positive form), Rule 12 (definite, specific, concrete language), Rule 13 (omit needless words), Rule 16 (keep related words together), and Rule 18 (emphatic words at the end).

It covers any prose read by humans: documentation, READMEs, changelogs, summaries, skill content, and command content. It has no modes, subagents, or file organization — it reads the style guide and writes.