SKILL29writing-communication
Editing for Clarity and Tone
Revises existing prose for clarity, concision, structure, readability, and requested tone while protecting meaning, evidence, and exact spans.
Primary benefit
Improves a draft without silently turning editorial cleanup into fact-changing rewriting or generic house style.When to use
Use when an existing draft needs clearer structure, tighter language, better readability, or a specific tone while its factual meaning should remain stable.
When not to use
Do not use when the task primarily requires new research, fact-checking, conversion strategy, interface-state writing, or generated-prose humanization.
Use cases
Tighten a client-facing explanation while preserving claims, numbers, links, and obligations
Adjust a technical or professional draft to a warmer, clearer tone without changing its factual certainty
Example prompts
Use editing-for-clarity-and-tone to make this draft clearer and more concise while preserving every factual claim, number, citation, URL, proper noun, and protected phrase. Keep the requested tone without changing certainty or meaning.Install this skill
Choose the command for your operating system and run it from the repository root.
Bash
./install.sh --skill editing-for-clarity-and-tonePowerShell
./install.ps1 --skill editing-for-clarity-and-toneChatGPT
Download Skill ZIPCompatibility
- Surfaces
- ChatGPT · Codex · Claude Code
- Operating systems
- Linux · macOS · Windows
- Install modes
- PluginFilesystem
Dependencies
No external dependencies
Part of systems
Curated systems that canonically include this method.