Revise technical and user-facing prose for clarity, concision, and precision.
npx skills add https://github.com/chriswch/praxis --skill clear-writing-chriswch
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: clear-writing Source: https://github.com/chriswch/praxis/tree/main/skills/clear-writing Command: npx skills add https://github.com/chriswch/praxis --skill clear-writing-chriswch
Long, vague, or padded prose obscures meaning, wastes readers' time, and undermines technical communication. This Skill provides practical rules and examples to transform draft writing into direct, concrete, and readable prose so readers can quickly understand intent and act.
Revise the following paragraph for clarity, concision, active voice, and concrete language while preserving technical accuracy.
High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.
To revise technical documentation for clarity, apply active voice, concrete language, and parallel structure while removing padding and hedges. This preserves necessary detail and technical accuracy while ensuring readers grasp intent quickly.
The best way to remove filler and machine-generated padding from prose is to detect and eliminate throat-clearing phrases, hedges, and qualifiers. This enforces positive phrasing and places emphasis at sentence ends while preserving the original meaning.
Writing clear commit messages and PR descriptions requires tailoring prose to match reviewer workflows and reader expectations. Revise drafts to enforce active voice, concrete language, and concision so reviewers can quickly understand the intent and act.
Yes, you can use a style guide to fix vague writing in design sketches and specifications. Applying rules for active voice and positive statements transforms padded drafts into direct, readable prose while maintaining the necessary technical detail.
The recommended process for editing technical writing is a two-step approach: draft your content for completeness first, then revise the draft for clarity, structure, and concision to ensure readers can quickly understand the intent.
Technical writing often remains vague after editing when machine-habit padding, hedges, and qualifiers are left intact. You must enforce concrete language, remove filler constructions, and use parallel structure to make the prose direct and precise.
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