writing-clearly-and-concisely
✓Apply Strunk's timeless writing rules to ANY prose humans will read—documentation, commit messages, error messages, explanations, reports, or UI text. Makes your writing clearer, stronger, and more professional.
Installation
SKILL.md
William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style (1918) teaches you to write clearly and cut ruthlessly.
WARNING: elements-of-style.md consumes 12,000 tokens. Read it only when writing or editing prose.
If you're writing sentences for a human to read, use this skill.
Apply Strunk's timeless writing rules to ANY prose humans will read—documentation, commit messages, error messages, explanations, reports, or UI text. Makes your writing clearer, stronger, and more professional. Source: obra/the-elements-of-style.
Facts (cite-ready)
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/obra/the-elements-of-style --skill writing-clearly-and-concisely- Category
- *Creative Media
- Verified
- ✓
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is writing-clearly-and-concisely?
Apply Strunk's timeless writing rules to ANY prose humans will read—documentation, commit messages, error messages, explanations, reports, or UI text. Makes your writing clearer, stronger, and more professional. Source: obra/the-elements-of-style.
How do I install writing-clearly-and-concisely?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/obra/the-elements-of-style --skill writing-clearly-and-concisely Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/obra/the-elements-of-style
Details
- Category
- *Creative Media
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01