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Re-anchor cooperative-communication discipline — Grice's conversational maxims plus the AI-augmented transparency maxim — then audit recent responses and agent-authored artifacts for what the reader actually needed: completeness in both directions, relevance, clarity, and disclosed boundaries. Use when: 'mind your maxims', 'communication quality', 'answer what I asked', 'you buried the answer', 'you didn't answer the question', 'too vague', 'stay on topic', 'is this clear', 'grice', 'maxims', or at conversation start to set the communication posture.
melodic-software/claude-code-plugins · ★ 13 · AI & Automation · score 73
Install: claude install-skill melodic-software/claude-code-plugins
# Mind your maxims A drift corrector for cooperative-communication discipline. The method — re-anchor, audit the work in flight, correct forward, report, and the tone that firing this is not an accusation — lives in [`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/context/re-anchor-audit-correct.md`](../../context/re-anchor-audit-correct.md). Read it; this file adds only what is specific to communication discipline. ## The discipline this re-anchors Cooperative communication: give the reader what they need — no less, no more — relevantly, clearly, and with your uncertainty and limits disclosed. This discipline rests on maxims their **primary sources own**; this skill points at them and does not restate them (it dogfoods `/discipline:point-dont-copy` — a paraphrase of the maxims here would be a second copy that drifts): - Grice's Cooperative Principle and its four maxims — Quantity, Quality, Relation, Manner — in [Grice, "Logic and Conversation"](https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/grice.html) and [Cooperative principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle). - The AI-augmented maxims for human-AI dialogue — Transparency and Benevolence — in Miehling et al., "Language Models in Dialogue: Conversational Maxims for Human-AI Interactions" ([arXiv:2403.15115](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15115)). Resolve the source of truth per the method doc's ladder: if the consuming project declares a communication or writing-quality convention in its own `CLAUDE.md` / `.claude/ru