asd-ste100

asd-ste100 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nuelcyoung/asd-ste100. It costs 85 tokens per session (4,286 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing and checking Simplified Technical English, a controlled form of English defined by ASD for clearer technical documentation. It covers writing rules and an approved vocabulary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write, rewrite, or review manuals, procedures, warnings, and other technical documentation for compliance with ASD-STE100.
Why use it?
It reduces ambiguous wording and makes technical text easier to understand and translate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to write, rewrite, or review manuals, procedures, warnings, and other technical documentation for compliance with ASD-STE100.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nuelcyoung/asd-ste100/asd-ste100
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nuelcyoung/asd-ste100 --skill asd-ste100
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nuelcyoung/asd-ste100

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,286 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 $0.00085 $0.04286
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.02143
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00857
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00429

Measured 12d ago against content hash f1fa42763d0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asd-ste100 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 12d 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.

SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE)

Write, rewrite, and verify technical text against ASD-STE100 Issue 9 (January 2025). STE is a controlled natural language owned by ASD (Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe). It makes technical text unambiguous, easy to understand, and easy to translate. The standard has two parts: 53 writing rules in 9 sections (Part 1) and a controlled dictionary of about 900 approved words (Part 2).

STE is not simplified English for learners. It is a precise standard that requires strong English proficiency to apply. It adds to, but does not replace, a style guide.

When to Apply This Skill

  • Rewrite existing technical text (manuals, procedures, warnings) into STE
  • Write new STE-compliant procedures or descriptions
  • Review text for STE compliance and report violations
  • Explain STE rules, the dictionary, or the standard

Rule 0: Meaning Outranks Vocabulary

Before any other step: never change a technical fact, drop a qualifier, delete an object, or invent an agent in order to satisfy the dictionary. STE removes ambiguity; it does not remove content. A sentence built entirely from approved words that states something false or empty is a worse failure than a sentence that keeps one flagged word.

This is the failure mode that makes an STE rewrite look compliant and read plausibly while being wrong. Three signatures to watch for in your own output:

  • Nearest-word substitution. "data that can be lost" → "data that can decrease". decrease was approved, so it was taken; the definition is now false. Restructure instead: "the quantity of data that the system can lose".
  • Object amputation. "helps the platform to scale" → "helps the platform to increase". Increase what? A transitive verb keeps its object or the sentence says nothing.
  • Hedge deletion. "can be more important" → "is more important". Deleting a modal turns a qualified claim into an absolute one. (And can is approved — see the verb rules below.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 12d ago First seen · 178 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A f1fa42763d0d

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asd-ste100 is a skill published in the GitHub repository nuelcyoung/asd-ste100 (23 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 4,286 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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