os-say-simple

os-say-simple is a skill for Claude Code from kharmanskyi/open-steps. It costs 144 tokens per session (1,278 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plain-language rewriting guide for technical text, reports, reviews, errors, and other explanations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone asks what text means, requests a simpler explanation, or needs a shorter restatement.
Why use it?
It makes text understandable and usable without changing its facts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the open-steps plugin — 7 skills, 1 command, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when someone asks what text means, requests a simpler explanation, or needs a shorter restatement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kharmanskyi/open-steps/os-say-simple
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 kharmanskyi/open-steps --skill os-say-simple
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kharmanskyi/open-steps

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-steps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 command, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,278 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00144 $0.01278
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00128

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7addbace7aa6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

os-say-simple 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 8d 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/os-say-simple/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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 is os-whats-next.

What text to restate

  1. Whatever the user points at: pasted text, a named file, a report in the reports folder. Read it if it is a file.
  2. 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.

  • One sentence, one idea. In instructions: one action per sentence.
  • Active voice. Name who does what - "the check refused the deploy", never "the deploy was refused".
  • Short sentences. A sentence that needs a breath in the middle is two.
  • One word, one meaning - and one meaning, one word. Never rotate synonyms for the same thing; the reader will assume the difference is meaningful.
  • Present tense unless the time itself is the fact.
  • Lists over dense paragraphs - but a list is not permission to drop the connections between items.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 115 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A 7addbace7aa6

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os-say-simple is a skill published in the GitHub repository kharmanskyi/open-steps (274 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 1,278 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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