writing-simplified-technical-english

writing-simplified-technical-english is a skill for Claude Code from PostHog/ai-plugin. It costs 145 tokens per session (1,061 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A writing guide for clear technical English based on ASD-STE100, a controlled-language standard used in aircraft maintenance manuals. It recommends active voice, simple grammar, short sentences, and one meaning per word.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when producing prose that must be read consistently, such as technical instructions, specifications, and other documentation.
Why use it?
It reduces wording that readers could misunderstand in technical instructions and documentation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the posthog plugin — 164 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when producing prose that must be read consistently, such as technical instructions, specifications, and other documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/posthog/ai-plugin/writing-simplified-technical-english
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 PostHog/ai-plugin --skill writing-simplified-technical-english
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/ai-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install posthog, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 164 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,061 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 unknown 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 $0.00145 $0.01061
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00106

Measured 4d ago against content hash e51531ad5db7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-simplified-technical-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 4d 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/writing-simplified-technical-english/SKILL.md · 81 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 4d ago First seen · 81 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A e51531ad5db7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing-simplified-technical-english is a skill published in the GitHub repository PostHog/ai-plugin (80 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 1,061 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 2026-09-05.

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