writing-clearly-and-concisely
Apply Strunk's timeless writing rules to ANY prose humans will read—documentation, commit messages, error messages, explanations, reports, or UI text. Makes your writing clearer, stronger, and more professional.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "obra/the-elements-of-style:writing-clearly-and-concisely" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/obra/the-elements-of-style /tmp/the-elements-of-style && ln -s /tmp/the-elements-of-style/skills/writing-clearly-and-concisely ~/.claude/skills/writing-clearly-and-conciselyFrom README
Writing Clearly and Concisely Overview William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style (1918) teaches you to write clearly and cut ruthlessly. WARNING: elements-of-style.md consumes 12,000 tokens. Read it only when writing or editing prose. When to Use This Skill Use this skill whenever you write prose for humans: Documentation, README files, technical explanations Commit messages, pull request descriptions Error messages, UI copy, help text, comments Reports, summaries, or any explanation Editing to improve clarity If you're writing sentences for a human to read, use this skill.
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