danyuchn/asd-ste100-skill
ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English rules, repurposed as a Claude Code skill for rewriting ambiguous agent-facing English.
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A Claude Code skill that rewrites dense, ambiguous English into ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) — the controlled-language standard the aerospace and defense industry built so aircraft maintenance instructions cannot be misread. This skill repurposes that same discipline for a different reader: an AI agent parsing another agent's output, a tool description, an error message, or an inter-agent instruction, with no human in the loop to resolve ambiguity. STE exists because a misread instruction on an aircraft can kill people, and the intended readers were often not native English speakers with no author to call for clarification. The standard's fix: one meaning per word, active voice, simple tenses, one instruction per sentence, short sentences, no dropped words. An LLM agent parsing another agent's output is in a strikingly similar position — no back-channel, no way to ask "did you mean X or Y?" The same rules that keep a mechanic…
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- ASD-STE100 Skill — Simplified Technical English for Agent Output
- Why STE, and Why for Agents
- Before / After
- What This Skill Does
- Installation
- Quick Install (npx skills)
- Clone
- Usage
- Scope
- Other Languages
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ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English rules, repurposed as a Claude Code skill for rewriting ambiguous agent-facing English.
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- danyuchn
- Primary language
- Python
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- 4,362
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- 252
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- License
- MIT
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- 2026-07-20T15:10:41.000Z
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- 2026-10-04T06:18:56.000Z
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