re-pitchlisted
Install: claude install-skill chrislacey89/skills
# Re-pitch
Say it again so it lands. `/re-pitch` takes the answer that just failed and re-states the *same* content under a checkable restriction: short declarative sentences, active voice, the project's own domain terms, and a short in-line definition for every one of those terms the first time it appears.
## Overview
Re-explaining is not the same as summarizing. A summary assumes the reader understood and wants it shorter. `/re-pitch` assumes the reader did **not** understand, and that saying less of the same thing will fail the same way.
Two ideas do the work.
**Confusion has three distinct causes, and each has a different repair** (Hermans). A reader stalls because a term is unknown to them, because the situational facts are missing, or because too many steps arrived at once. Shortening only fixes the third. Applied to the first, a shorter answer still contains the unexplained term — now with less around it to infer from.
**A restricted language works only when its restrictions are checkable** (Kuhn). Caterpillar Fundamental English restricted vocabulary to under 1,000 words and was discontinued in 1982 because "the basic guidelines of CFE were not enforceable in the English documents produced" (p. 15). GM Global English pruned a 62-rule predecessor to 15 crisp rules and shipped without the checker that had enforced them — a stricter-looking rule set that was functionally advisory from day one (p. 35). "Write more simply" is that failure mode in one sentence. Step 4