Apply Strunk's timeless writing rules to ANY prose humans will readâdocumentation, commit messages, error messages, explanations, reports, or UI text. Makes your writing clearer, stronger, and more professional.
Install
npx skills add obra/the-elements-of-style --skill writing-clearly-and-conciselynpx skills add obra/the-elements-of-style --skill writing-clearly-and-concisely -a claude-code -gnpx skills add obra/the-elements-of-style --skill writing-clearly-and-concisely -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/obra/the-elements-of-style.git --path skills/writing-clearly-and-conciselygh skill install obra/the-elements-of-style writing-clearly-and-conciselygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/obra/the-elements-of-style /tmp/obra__the-elements-of-style
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/obra__the-elements-of-style/skills/writing-clearly-and-concisely ~/.claude/skills/writing-clearly-and-concisely # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/obra__the-elements-of-style/skills/writing-clearly-and-concisely ~/.agents/skills/writing-clearly-and-concisely # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode