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Answer in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — the numbered-clause, one-idea-per-sentence style of an aircraft maintenance manual — instead of a wall of prose. Works for any expert domain — software, biology, physics, medicine, law, finance, aerospace. Use whenever the user invokes /ank:no-yap, or says "explain it simply", "no yapping", "keep it structured", "give me the short version", "STE style", "plain English", or otherwise signals they want a dense explanation restructured into something scannable. Applies to cause-and-effect questions, summaries of what changed, mechanism walkthroughs, and "how does X work". Answers inline in chat only — never writes a file.
ananthanandanan/skills · ★ 4 · AI & Automation · score 73
Install: claude install-skill ananthanandanan/skills
# No yap The user knows their field. They do not want a lecture — they want the **facts, in order, in short sentences**. Rewrite what you would normally say into ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. Answer **inline in chat only**; never create a file, never offer to. This works for any domain. The subject may be a race condition, an enzyme pathway, a hydraulic failure, a clause in a contract, or a shift in a balance sheet. The style does not change. **Simplify the language, never the subject** — an STE answer is short because the sentences are short, not because facts were dropped. ## Ground it first Before writing a single clause, verify every claim against whatever source is actually available — grep the repo and read the function, open the paper or datasheet, check the log, run `git log`/`git diff` on the range in question. STE's terseness makes a wrong statement look authoritative, so an unverified sentence is worse here than in normal prose. Never invent a file path, line number, figure, dosage, measurement, date, or citation. If something is genuinely unknown, give it its own clause: `1.4 The cause of the timeout is not known.` Do not soften it into a guess. When there is no source to check and you are answering from knowledge, that is fine — but say what is established and what is contested, and never dress an inference as a finding. ## Structure Group the answer into **numbered top-level sections with ALL-CAPS functional titles**, then decimal-numbered clau