readable
Skill10 starsChanged 6 days agoMITView on GitHub
Default prose style for user-facing text: one simple idea, then elaboration, then an example when it helps. Use for every writeup, explanation, README, or reply the reader will see, and when the user runs /readable.
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- OHOKAYYEAH/claude-skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 13, 2026
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- OHOKAYYEAH/claude-skills★ 1same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository35 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- design-principlesSkill
- experimentationSkill
- groupingSkill
- idea-qualitySkill
- info-foragingSkill
- investingSkill
- listeningSkill
- misfitsSkill
- motivationSkill
- needs-to-signalsSkill
- optionalitySkill
- perspectiveSkill
- purposeSkill
- testingSkill
- verify-before-shipSkill
- resume-deep-diveSkill
- review-resumeSkill
- inspiring-ideaSkill
- next-goalSkill
- side-quest-recommendSkill
- still-want-itSkill
- find-the-argumentSkill
- make-presentation-slideSkill
- agent-evalsSkill
- behavior-viewSkill
- black-boxSkill
- clean-arch-domainSkill
- mutation-testingSkill
- structure-viewSkill
- test-oracleSkill
- unit-testsSkill
- user-storiesSkill
- white-boxSkill
- negotiationSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 4 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈4
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 11
Write so a reader with no time can follow on the first pass.
- Distinctive: line 19
Use short, common words. Give each word one meaning.
- Distinctive: line 21
Use a hard word only after this writeup already defined it.
- Distinctive: line 23
Keep the author's argument when the source already has one.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Write so a reader with no time can follow on the first pass.
For each point:
- Idea — one sentence as subject + verb + object. A reader with no time can infer the elaboration from this sentence alone. Rewrite the idea until they can.
- Elaboration — a few sentences that explain the idea in plain words.
- Example — add one concrete case when it makes the idea easier to see.
Use short, common words. Give each word one meaning.
Use a hard word only after this writeup already defined it. After that, reuse is fine.
Keep the author's argument when the source already has one. Change only the words and the shape of each point.
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