writing-clearly-and-concisely
Use when writing prose humans will read—documentation, commit messages, error messages, explanations, reports, or UI text. Applies Strunk's timeless rules for clearer, stronger, more professional writing.
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83%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
96%
1.01xAverage score across 3 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
Evaluation results
100%
Clean Up the DataBridge README
Avoiding AI writing patterns
No AI vocabulary
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100%
No puffery
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No promotional adjectives
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100%
No empty -ing phrases
100%
100%
Active voice
100%
100%
No emoji
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Shorter than original
100%
100%
Needless phrases removed
100%
100%
Specific not grandiose
100%
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No excessive bold
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3%Write a Contributor Guide for an Open Source Project
Active voice and concision
Active voice
80%
100%
Positive form
90%
100%
Concrete specifics
100%
100%
No needless phrases
100%
100%
No AI vocabulary
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No puffery
100%
100%
Paragraph topic sentences
100%
100%
One topic per paragraph
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100%
Parallel structure in lists
100%
100%
No empty -ing phrases
100%
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90%
Write Commit Messages and a PR Description for a Refactor
Paragraph structure and concrete language
Imperative commit messages
100%
100%
Commit messages concise
70%
100%
PR description: why not just what
100%
100%
Consistent tense in PR
30%
0%
No AI vocabulary
100%
100%
No puffery or promotion
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Specific concrete language
100%
100%
Omits needless words
100%
100%
No excessive formatting in PR
100%
100%
No empty -ing phrases
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- Repository
- softaworks/agent-toolkit
- Commit
3027f20
- Evaluated
- Agent
- Claude Code
- Model
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
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