simplified-english

simplified-english is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paperclipai/paperclip. It costs 46 tokens per session (382 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide based on ASD-STE100, a standard for clear and controlled technical English.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write comments, plans, procedures, and documents with simple vocabulary, active sentences, and one clear idea or instruction at a time.
Why use it?
It makes user-facing text easier to understand the first time by using short, direct sentences and consistent words. It reduces jargon, ambiguity, and instructions with multiple meanings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write comments, plans, procedures, and documents with simple vocabulary, active sentences, and one clear idea or instruction at a time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paperclipai/paperclip/simplified-english
About the project

Paperclip is a Node.js server and React application for coordinating AI agents as a business team, with goals, organizational roles, budgets, governance, and work tracking in one interface. It is used by people managing multiple agents or autonomous agent organizations across tools such as OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The catalogue includes skills, agents, an MCP add-on, and an instruction for working with Paperclip.

paperclipai/paperclip · 80,385 stars · on GitHub · paperclip.ing

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 paperclipai/paperclip --skill simplified-english
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 382 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00046 $0.00382
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00191
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00038

Measured 12d ago against content hash a0f738559987, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simplified-english 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.

packages/skills-catalog/catalog/optional/content/simplified-english/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Simplified English

For user-facing comments, plans, and documents, write using only ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.

Core rules

  • Use short sentences (procedures ≤ 20 words, descriptions ≤ 25 words).
  • Give one instruction per sentence.
  • Use approved words with one meaning each; avoid synonyms and jargon.
  • Use the active voice and the present tense.
  • Use articles ("the", "a") and do not drop words to save space.
  • Write positive instructions; avoid negative or vague qualifiers.
  • Keep paragraphs to one topic.

Approved words

The approved words are the ASD-STE100 controlled vocabulary — the Dictionary in the current ASD-STE100 specification, plus the technical names and technical verbs that your subject needs. When a word is not approved, use the simplest common word that has one meaning. Prefer these house choices:

  • "start" / "stop" (not "initiate", "commence", "terminate", "kill")
  • "make" (not "implement", "leverage", "utilize")
  • "before" / "after" (not "prior to", "subsequent to")
  • "about" (not "regarding", "in relation to")
  • "help" (not "facilitate")
  • "use" (not "utilize", "employ")
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 · 41 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A a0f738559987

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simplified-english is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (80,385 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 382 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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