GitHub - IgaoGuru/caterpillar-technical-english

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An Agent Skill that makes any model write like a Caterpillar Technical English (CTE) author.

This makes your model not suck when writing, and prevents the kind of Arming the assumptions-side entry wrappers and consume in their recursive cores. Some entry to the hot loop isn't armed. language of certain models

Install

npx skills add IgaoGuru/caterpillar-technical-english

What it does

The agent writes all prose in CTE: approved-terminology discipline, short unambiguous sentences, active voice, no idioms, no ambiguous pronouns, translation-ready output.

Layout

skills/
  caterpillar-technical-english/
    SKILL.md                          # the skill
    reference/CLAW-1998-Kamprath.md   # digest of the source paper

Source

Based on: C. Kamprath, E. Adolphson, T. Mitamura & E. Nyberg, "Controlled Language for Multilingual Document Production: Experience with Caterpillar Technical English", Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications (CLAW 1998), pp. 51–61. The paper is © its authors; the reference file is a condensed digest, not the full text.

Thanks for Andrew Carr (@andrew_n_carr) for first proposing the use of CTE in models