plain-language-audit

plain-language-audit is a skill for Claude Code from jerseycheese/agent-skills. It costs 161 tokens per session (2,351 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing review tool for a codebase's comments, documentation, and user-interface text. It looks for technical language that could be clearer, writing patterns that sound machine-generated, and unnecessary length.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review comments, docstrings, Markdown documentation, button labels, error messages, and other text for clarity and brevity.
Why use it?
It helps make project text easier to understand without changing what it means. It can apply clear, mechanical wording fixes and flag rewrites that need a human choice.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the workflow-skills plugin — 31 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review comments, docstrings, Markdown documentation, button labels, error messages, and other text for clarity and brevity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jerseycheese/agent-skills/plain-language-audit
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 jerseycheese/agent-skills --skill plain-language-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jerseycheese/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workflow-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 161 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,351 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 $0.00161 $0.02351
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.01175
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00235

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8d7664df3504, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plain-language-audit 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 10d 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.

skills/plain-language-audit/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plain Language Audit

A sweep for text that's harder to read than it needs to be — jargon standing in for a plainer word, AI writing tells that make prose sound generated instead of written, and verbosity that says less in more words. Covers code comments, docstrings, markdown docs, and user-facing UI copy/strings.

This is the prose counterpart to doc-rot (which fixes docs that are wrong) and code-health-audit (which fixes code that's overengineered) — this one fixes text that's hard to read, whether or not it's accurate.

Developer-facing text (comments, docstrings, internal docs, PR/issue prose) gets the full treatment: plain language, AI-tell removal, tightening, and — where genuinely a rewrite rather than a mechanical swap — the user's own voice (apply the voice skill, canon at ~/.agents/voice.local.md).

User-facing UI copy (button labels, error messages, empty states, in-app strings) gets plain language, AI-tell removal, and tightening only — never the developer-voice rewrite. It's a different audience with its own conventions (see the design:ux-copy skill if one's installed); don't impose "sounds like Jack" on a "Forgot password?" link. UI copy findings always go in the judgment-call bucket below, never auto-fixed.

This skill is for auditing text that already lives in a repo. If the actual ask is "make this pasted paragraph more concise" or "tighten my last reply" with no file/repo target, that's a direct edit to the text in front of you — just do it. Don't run git pre-flight, don't create or touch an audit-memory file, don't treat a standalone rewrite request as a repo sweep.

Pre-flight

Per the user's git workflow: git fetch && git status, confirm the right base branch and that it's synced. Then scope it — don't boil the ocean. State what's in range (a directory, a domain, recently-touched files) and confirm before sweeping a whole repo. Keep that confirmed scope as a variable through the rest of the run — every search below runs against it, not the whole tree.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 10d ago First seen · 109 lines · 161 tokens per session scan A 8d7664df3504

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plain-language-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository jerseycheese/agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 161 tokens to every session and 2,351 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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