rename stop-blathering to grice-maxims
A civil name for the same skill; "stop blathering" stays a trigger phrase in the description, which now leads with replies: they happen every turn, so they never look like a task that calls for a skill. The README gloss now covers all four maxims, not just brevity. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## writing prose
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## writing prose
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- [stop-blathering](stop-blathering/SKILL.md) — omit needless words.
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- [grice-maxims](grice-maxims/SKILL.md) — say what's needed and no
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more, only what you can back up, in an order easy to follow.
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- [hypertext-links](hypertext-links/SKILL.md) — link text says where
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- [hypertext-links](hypertext-links/SKILL.md) — link text says where
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the link goes; no bare URLs, no "click here".
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the link goes; no bare URLs, no "click here".
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- [citation-needed](citation-needed/SKILL.md) — back a challenged claim
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- [citation-needed](citation-needed/SKILL.md) — back a challenged claim
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name: stop-blathering
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name: grice-maxims
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description: >-
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Stop blathering; be concise, truthful, relevant, clear (Grice's maxims) — use when writing or copy editing prose for a reader (docs, READMEs, skills, commit messages, PR descriptions, replies); when someone says "tighter", "too wordy", "blathering", "omit needless words", or cites Strunk & White or Grice; when about to say something you lack adequate evidence for. Optimize for reader attention: say what's needed, nothing the reader already knows, in an order easy to follow.
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Grice's maxims: be concise, truthful, relevant, clear — use before any reply, and when writing or copy editing prose for a reader (docs, READMEs, skills, commit messages, PR descriptions); when someone says "tighter", "too wordy", "stop blathering", "omit needless words", or cites Strunk & White or Grice; when about to say something you lack adequate evidence for. Optimize for reader attention: say what's needed, nothing the reader already knows, in an order easy to follow.
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# Be concise; optimize for reader attention
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# Be concise; optimize for reader attention
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