Iso 24495
Use when text must be easy for its intended reader to find, understand, and act on — reports, emails, documentation, UI text, announcements, explanations, AI output that reads as dense or bureaucratic. Applies ISO 24495-1 plain language principles with dedicated technique layers for English and Traditional Chinese. Triggers: plain language rewrite, apply ISO 24495, make this clearer for readers, de-jargon this, 淺白改寫, 白話改寫, 去公文腔, 讓讀者一次看懂. Not for creative or literary writing.
Install
npx skills add danyuchn/iso-24495-skill --skill iso-24495git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danyuchn/iso-24495-skill.git /tmp/iso-24495-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/iso-24495-skill/. ~/.claude/skills/iso-24495Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# ISO 24495-1 Plain Language (English + Traditional Chinese) ISO 24495-1:2023 is the international standard for plain language. It defines plain language by reader outcome, not by word lists: a document is plain when its intended readers can get what they need (relevant), find it (findable), understand it on first reading (understandable), and act on it (usable). This skill rewrites text so it meets those four outcomes. The principles are language-independent — ISO states the standard "applies to most, if not all, written languages" — so this skill ships one shared principle layer and two language technique layers: - **English** → apply `references/english-techniques.md` - **Traditional Chinese（繁體中文）** → apply `references/chinese-techniques.md` The Chinese layer is not a translation of the English layer. It is a separate technique set for problems Chinese text actually has (歐化長句、公文腔、 成語堆疊、中英夾雜、被字句濫用). As of this skill's release, no national standards body has published a Chinese adaptation of ISO 24495-1; this layer is an original implementation of the principles for Chinese. ## When to Use This Skill - A reader-facing text (report, email, doc page, UI string, announcement, policy, explanation) reads as dense, bureaucratic, hedged, or jargon-heavy. - AI-generated output is technically correct but hard to read. - Text must work for non-specialist readers, non-native readers, or busy readers who will scan rather than study.
Details
- Skill name
iso-24495- Repository
- danyuchn/iso-24495-skill
- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 13 August 2026
FAQ
What does the Iso 24495 skill do?
Use when text must be easy for its intended reader to find, understand, and act on — reports, emails, documentation, UI text, announcements, explanations, AI output that reads as dense or bureaucratic. Applies ISO 24495-1 plain language principles with dedicated technique layers for English and Traditional Chinese. Triggers: plain language rewrite, apply ISO 24495, make this clearer for readers, de-jargon this, 淺白改寫, 白話改寫, 去公文腔, 讓讀者一次看懂. Not for creative or literary writing.
How do I install the Iso 24495 skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add danyuchn/iso-24495-skill --skill iso-24495. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Iso 24495 popular?
It lives in danyuchn/iso-24495-skill, which has 154 GitHub stars and 7 forks.
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