Overview

This Claude Code skill dramatically enhances AI agent communication by applying the rigorous ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) standard. It transforms dense, ambiguous English into crystal-clear, unambiguous instructions and descriptions, mirroring the safety-critical precision of aerospace maintenance manuals for the realm of AI-to-AI interactions.

Key Features

• Ambiguity Eradication: Rewrites agent-facing English (tool descriptions, error messages, instructions) to eliminate multiple interpretations, ensuring AI agents can parse information without human intervention.
• Dual Modes: Offers Strict STE for procedures and critical messages, and STE-flavored for less formal prose like READMEs, balancing discipline with readability.
• Comprehensive Rule Application: Analyzes and flags violations across a spectrum of STE rules, including word choice, tense, voice, sentence structure, and more.
• Fact Preservation: Ensures no information, condition, or scope qualifier is lost during the rewriting process.
• Transparency on Changes: Provides optional detailed "diffs" that explain which STE rules were applied to each sentence.
• Principle-Based Adaptation: Employs the core principles of STE (one meaning per word, simple structures) rather than relying on a proprietary dictionary, making it broadly applicable.
• Easy Installation: Available via quick install with npx skills or by cloning the repository.

Typical Use Cases

• Agent-to-Agent Communication: Streamlining instructions, status updates, and error reports between AI agents.
• Tool and Function Descriptions: Creating clear, machine-parsable documentation for AI tools and functions.
• Error Message Clarity: Rewriting error messages so that AI systems can accurately diagnose and respond to issues.
• System Prompts and Instructions: Enhancing the precision of prompts and directives given to AI agents.
• Inter-Agent Task Delegation: Ensuring that tasks assigned between agents are understood unambiguously.