SimpleEnglish
SimpleEnglish is a skill that makes AI agents write plain, direct technical documentation for readers who need to understand it quickly.
What it is good for
- Rewriting wordy AI output into clear, plain English
- Writing docs, runbooks, and release notes that are hard to misread
- Removing filler, hedging, and heavy formatting from chat replies
- Keeping technical instructions short and in a fixed style
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Skill or plugin
- Tasks
- Works with
- Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Goose
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked yet
- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 4,115
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is SimpleEnglish free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (MIT license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use SimpleEnglish?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does SimpleEnglish work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, and Goose.
- What is SimpleEnglish good for?
- Rewriting wordy AI output into clear, plain English, writing docs, runbooks, and release notes that are hard to misread, removing filler, hedging, and heavy formatting from chat replies, and keeping technical instructions short and in a fixed style.
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