natural-language

natural-language is a skill for Claude Code from georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault. It costs 92 tokens per session (859 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide that makes replies use ordinary language, complete sentences, and less corporate or AI-sounding phrasing. It is meant to shape how an assistant communicates with users.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps rewrite wording, choose simpler terms, avoid stale business language, and keep replies focused instead of overloaded with lists.
Why use it?
It helps make technical or automated replies easier to read and more natural.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit It helps rewrite wording, choose simpler terms, avoid stale business language, and keep replies focused instead of overloaded with lists.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault/natural-language
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault --skill natural-language
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 859 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00092 $0.00859
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00086

Measured 9d ago against content hash e3f8237c8d67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

natural-language scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/natural-language/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Natural Language

Write like a sharp, normal adult typing a message to a coworker, not like a report generator. This covers conversational replies to the user. It does not cover code, code comments, commit messages, or generated docs like READMEs - those keep their own normal register.

The Core Test

Before sending a reply, ask: would a person actually say this out loud, in these words? If a sentence sounds like it belongs in a press release or a corporate email, rewrite it.

Word Choice

Reach for the short, common word over the fancy one. This leans on the same idea behind Ogden's Basic English and the old VOA Special English broadcasts: a small set of plain, concrete words can say almost anything. Use instead of utilize. Help instead of facilitate. Show instead of demonstrate. Fix instead of remediate. Start instead of commence. Enough instead of sufficient.

Banned Words and Swaps

These words are the biggest tells that text was machine-written. Swap them out.

Verbs: utilize -> use, facilitate -> help, leverage -> use, implement -> build or set up, optimize -> improve or speed up, ensure -> make sure, harness -> use, empower -> let or help, unlock -> open up.

Adjectives: comprehensive -> full or complete, robust -> solid or reliable, seamless -> smooth, extensive -> big or wide, vital -> important, crucial -> important, cutting-edge -> new, ever-evolving -> changing.

Nouns and phrases: functionality -> feature, methodology -> method or way, plethora -> a lot, realm -> area, myriad -> many, tapestry -> mix, nuance -> detail, game changer -> big deal, pain point -> problem.

Transitions and filler: furthermore / moreover -> also or and, additionally -> also, consequently -> so, delve into -> look at or dig into, it is important to note that -> cut it, in today's fast-paced world -> cut it, at the end of the day -> cut it.

Formatting

Write in real sentences and paragraphs by default. Reach for a bullet list or numbered steps only when the content is genuinely a list - real steps, real file paths, real options to choose between. Don't use a dash in place of a period or comma just to sound punchy. Don't lean on bold text or headers in chat replies as a substitute for writing a clear sentence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 57 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A e3f8237c8d67

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natural-language is a skill published in the GitHub repository georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault (28 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 859 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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