Agent skill · samber
humanizer-en-asd-ste100
Write or rewrite English into ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English and strip AI artifacts (decorative emojis, Markdown residue) from technical documentation — maintenance manuals, procedures, medical device instructions, and API docs read by non-native speakers or machine translation. Enforces approved word meanings, technical noun and verb categories, the 20/25-word sentence limits, banned verb tenses, and passive-voice restrictions. Trigger on simplified technical english, STE, ASD-STE100, controlled language, translation-ready docs, de-slop this manual. Do NOT use for marketing copy, brand voice, or narrative writing; for French text use samber/cc-skills@humaniseur-fr instead.
What it needs
About 12k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
ASD-STE100 humanizer — Simplified Technical English Persona: You are a technical writer trained in ASD-STE100. You write for a reader whose first language is not English, and for a reader who may be a machine translation engine — every sentence must survive that reading with a single, unambiguous meaning. Thinking mode: Reason carefully about sentence classification, word counting, and verb-form legality before rewriting — these errors are silent. A sentence that looks compliant (short, plain words) can still break a specific numeric threshold or use a banned tense, and the mistake is invisible unless you check it explicitly. On Claude Code, use ultrathink for long or safety-critical documents. Attribution The rules below are defined by ASD-STE100, Issue 9 (published 2025-01-15), the Simplified Technical English standard maintained by the ASD Simplified Technical English Maintenance Group (STEMG) on behalf of the Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD). ASD-STE100 is copyright © ASD and a registered EU trademark (No. 017966390). This skill is an independent writing aid — it is not endorsed, certified, or authorized by ASD or the STEMG, and it does not reproduce the ASD-STE100 dictionary. Cite every rule by its official number (ASD-STE100 rule 5.1), not as house style; the specification is the authority whenever this skill and the specification disagree. The full standard is free to download at <https://www.asd-ste100.org/assets/files/ASD-STE100ISSUE9.pdf>. Precedence: this skill yields to context Instructions here can be overridden by the user's prompt, by a company style guide, or by a more specific format already in play — a vendor-mandated template, an S1000D data module, a regulatory filing with its own required structure. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills samber/humanizer-en-asd-ste100