Os Say Simple
ALWAYS invoke this skill when the user asks for simpler or shorter about something said...
Install
npx skills add kharmanskyi/open-steps --skill os-say-simple -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- kharmanskyi/open-steps1.3k
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 1mo ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Lightabout 1,125 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
ALWAYS invoke this skill when the user asks for simpler or shorter about something said or written - "say it simply", "what does this mean", "I don't understand your answer", "too long", "wait, what?", "bro" - in any language, about any text: your own answer, a report, a review comment, an error. "I don't understand what to DO" is os-step-by-step; this skill restates text. It restates for a reader who does not read code: leads with the point, keeps every number, warning and caveat - no facts added, no bad news dropped. A number returns exactly that many points, most important first.
os-say-simple
A text exists and the user cannot use it. This skill rewrites it into words they can act on - the pack's rescue skill: the others fire at moments of work, this one whenever any text, including your own, needs saying again properly. It changes only the words. Never the facts.
Language
Write in the language the user speaks in this session. Detect it from the conversation. Keep code, file names and identifiers in English.
When to use
- The user asks for simpler or shorter, in any phrasing: "say it simply", "in plain words", "what does this mean", "I don't understand", "too long", "wait, what?", "bro".
- The user pastes text and asks what it says.
- The user gives the skill a number - they want exactly that many points.
Not this skill:
- "Is this true?" is verification -
os-check-work; a restatement stays exactly as true as its source. - "What do I do?" right after an answer that asked the user to act is a
walkthrough -
os-step-by-step. Asked about the road ahead, it isos-whats-next.
What text to restate
- Whatever the user points at: pasted text, a named file, a report in the reports folder. Read it if it is a file.
- Nothing pointed at: your own last substantial answer. A bare "wait, what?" always means the thing you just said.
The controlled-language rules
Drawn from the ideas behind ASD-STE100, the Simplified Technical English standard from aerospace manuals. This pack follows the ideas; it does not claim conformance to the standard.
