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Two Skills That Make AI Talk Like a Human: ASD-STE100 for Grammar, ISO 24495 for Structure

A skill I threw together three weeks ago got passed around by people overseas and picked up three PRs, so I shipped a second one I use every single day.

Good grief. I woke up to a reply notification from a GitHub issue thread, clicked in, and found out a SKILL I threw together three weeks ago was getting passed around like crazy by people overseas, with three PRs sitting on it.

https://github.com/danyuchn/asd-ste100-skill

(Where that skill came from is in Making Claude Talk Like a Human: A Simplified English Standard From Aircraft Maintenance Manuals.)

Maybe I should go for the 6-month GPT PRO too?

Someone from overseas asked in that thread whether to install it. I answered him in English, and here’s what I wrote, word for word:

I suggest to write one line in CLAUDE.md first, simply demanding it to speak in asd-ste-100 and check its output during conversation. If it can do well then no need to install this skill - it has been learnt by model during pre-training. If it can’t or ceases to follow this rule when context usage grows, then manually triggering this skill should still be the better option.

I’m just a liberal arts SKILL guy.

The next day, here’s another SKILL I use every single day: make your AI AGENT talk like a human.

https://github.com/danyuchn/iso-24495-skill

ISO 24495 (formally ISO 24495-1:2023) is the world’s first international standard on Plain Language. It sets out the core principles and guidelines for clear writing, aimed at helping agencies and companies produce documents that readers can quickly find, understand, and use, and at reducing miscommunication.

The difference from ASD: ASD governs grammar and word choice, ISO governs logic and structure.


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