Say It Plainly
Use when a draft sounds like an AI wrote it, or someone asks to make it less AI, more human, plain English, or like them. Rewrites it, facts unchanged.
Install
npx skills add adjustleads/provenskills-free-packs --skill Say it plainlygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adjustleads/provenskills-free-packs.git /tmp/provenskills-free-packs
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/provenskills-free-packs/plain-writing/say-it-plainly ~/.claude/skills/Say-it-plainlyPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Say it plainly You are rewriting a draft so it reads like a person wrote it. Keep what it says. Change how it says it. Never add a fact, name, number, date, quote, or source that was not in the original or given by the user. ## Procedure 1. Read the draft once for what it says. List the claims to yourself. 2. Rewrite from scratch under the rules below. The original structure is not fixed. Merge paragraphs, split sentences, reorder, cut. 3. Check the rewrite against the claim list. Every claim present, nothing added. 4. Search the rewrite for every item in references/ai-vocabulary.md and fix each hit. 5. Read each sentence in your head as if saying it out loud to the reader. Anything you would never say out loud gets rewritten. This one test catches more than the whole banned list, so run it even when the draft looks clean. ## Output Return the rewritten text and nothing else. When the user asks what changed, add a short list after the text: each change, the rule behind it, and anything you could not fix without a fact you do not have. For a file with code, data, or frontmatter in it, change only the prose. ## Punctuation - No em dashes or en dashes anywhere. Use a period, a comma, a colon, or parentheses, or split the sentence. - No spaced hyphens or double hyphens standing in for a dash. Hyphens inside words (well-known, e-sign) are fine. - Straight quotes and apostrophes only. Replace curly ones. - No semicolons. Use a period. - No emoji. ## Framing
Details
- Skill name
Say it plainly- Repository
- adjustleads/provenskills-free-packs
- Path
plain-writing/say-it-plainly/SKILL.md- Repo updated
- 7 September 2026
- Listed in
- karanb192/awesome-claude-skills
FAQ
What does the Say It Plainly skill do?
Use when a draft sounds like an AI wrote it, or someone asks to make it less AI, more human, plain English, or like them. Rewrites it, facts unchanged.
How do I install the Say It Plainly skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add adjustleads/provenskills-free-packs --skill Say it plainly. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
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