SimpleEnglish
Force LLMs to write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — measured 73% fewer violations.
About
SimpleEnglish is an agent skill that makes LLMs write documentation in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, the controlled language aerospace has used since 1983. The author benchmarked it across 6 Claude models and 96 runs and reports 73% fewer STE violations per 100 words, with shorter output.
It ships adaptations for error messages, runbooks, incident reports, release notes, and AGENTS.md files. Limitation: the output reads like an Airbus manual — flat and impossible to misread, which is the point for docs but wrong for marketing or voice-driven writing.
What it can do
- STE-constrained technical writing
- Error message rewriting
- Runbook authoring
- Incident report drafting
- Release notes
- Prompt/system-prompt hardening
Setup
- Run: npx skills add AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
- Pick your agents in the installer prompt.
- Ask for any technical writing, or say 'rewrite this with simple-english'.
Prerequisites
Any agent harness that reads the Agent Skills open standard.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 0 stars on the fork (AminBlg upstream); measured benchmark: 96 runs, 73% fewer violations; 9 commits, TDD-style evals; niche but real evidence. License: MIT.
★ 0 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 3.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 5.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 8.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · 0 stars on the fork (AminBlg upstream)
- · measured benchmark: 96 runs, 73% fewer violations
- · 9 commits, TDD-style evals
- · niche but real evidence
Sources
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