writing-with-claritylisted
Install: claude install-skill bcmyguest/personal-skills
# Writing with Clarity
This skill dictates how you structure and emit prose. It forces absolute economy of language across your entire execution path, eliminating hesitation, padding, and vague abstractions.
## Structural Directives
1. **Omit Needless Words:** A sentence must contain no unnecessary words, and a paragraph no unnecessary sentences. Strip out hedges, decorative qualifiers, and redundant meta-text.
2. **Use the Active Voice:** Avoid non-committal or passive structures. Frame assertions and logical actions using direct, vigorous verbs.
3. **Formulate in Positive Form:** Define assertions by what *is*, not by what *is not*. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitant, or evasion-prone language.
4. **Anchor in Concrete Language:** Abandon abstract generalizations. Express values, objects, and tasks using specific, definite nouns and exact metrics.
## Lexical Conversions
You must purge these exact phrases from your vocabulary and substitute them with their precise equivalents:
- "the question as to whether" ➔ "whether"
- "there is no doubt but that" ➔ "doubtless"
- "used for fuel purposes" ➔ "used for fuel"
- "he is a man who" ➔ "he"
- "in a hasty manner" ➔ "hastily"
- "this is a subject which" ➔ "this subject"
- "the reason why is that" ➔ "because"
## Execution Profile
### Phase 1: Filtering
Scan your planned response through the lexical conversion array before committing it to the final string. Convert passive statements to active declarations.
### Phase 2: Compression