SimpleEnglish
Technical documentation is often ambiguous, idiom-heavy, or difficult for non-native English readers to follow, even when it is technically accurate. SimpleEnglish is a Claude Code agent skill that constrains an LLM's writing to ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, a controlled-language standard originally developed for aircraft maintenance manuals and now applied wherever unambiguous, translation-friendly writing matters. The standard enforces rules such as sentence-length limits, one word carrying one meaning, simple verb tenses, and active voice, removing much of the interpretive burden a reader would otherwise carry.
As of August 2026 the repository has 2041 stars and 3 open issues, indicating active use and ongoing maintenance.
This wiki's own working session already runs an equivalent skill for the same purpose, so this entry documents SimpleEnglish specifically as a distinct third-party implementation of the ASD-STE100 approach, not as a net-new capability.
This is placed in Assess. The underlying standard is well-established and the tool has meaningful community adoption, but there is no first-person production use of this specific implementation, which is the gate for Trial. Its value going forward is mainly as a reference point for comparing implementations of the same ASD-STE100 pattern.
