Speak Fking English

Speak fking English

Run this over the complete draft as the last editing pass before returning or saving it.

Before selecting a route, freeze exact names, technical terms, quoted text, code, logs, commands, and evidence. Every selected pass preserves them character for character.

Route the pass

• When the user asks you to use speak-fking-english, invokes it with the harness's skill syntax, or asks for the full unslop, de-slop, or AI-tells pass, run the shared pass, add the deep catalogue pass, apply the final brevity pass, and then return the result. Merely discussing the skill does not select this explicit route.
• For a "wait, what?" or re-pitch request that does not explicitly invoke this skill, run the reader reset, apply the final brevity pass, and return.
• For a "show me" or visual-support request that does not explicitly invoke this skill, run the visual filter, apply the final brevity pass, and return.
• When another skill calls this one, return the revised text to that skill instead of addressing the user directly. Preserve the audience chosen by the calling workflow. Treat the call as implicit unless the user explicitly invoked this skill for that artifact.
• For every other model-selected call, including a task that matches the skill description or the final-response checkpoint, run the shared pass below, skip the deep catalogue pass, apply the final brevity pass, and return. This is the implicit route.

Shared pass

1. Apply the reader reset to the complete draft without changing its facts, scope, or requested action.

   Done when the reader can understand or act without reconstructing missing context.

2. Apply the visual filter after the reader reset. Give it the complete draft and any real evidence supplied by the owning workflow. Add support only when it materially reduces comprehension effort, and never replace or weaken real evidence.

   Done when prose is the explicit choice or the smallest useful support answers one clear teaching question, with every evidence claim still pointing to the behavior that produced it.

3. Apply the natural-writing pass to the complete draft, including any support added by the visual filter.

   Done when the result is direct, concrete, easy to follow, and recognisably written by a person, with every fact and evidence claim unchanged.

Deep catalogue pass

Run this only on the explicit route. Apply the full AI-tells catalogue to the result of the shared pass. Keep the facts, scope, requested action, intended tone, exact names, and evidence unchanged.

Done when no catalogued pattern survives and the draft still says exactly what it needs to say.

Final brevity pass

Apply the brevity pass last, after every other selected pass. On the implicit route, it follows the shared pass. On the explicit route, it follows the deep catalogue pass. On the focused reader-reset and visual-filter routes, it follows the named pass. Keep the context, evidence, qualifications, and next action the reader needs. Cut everything else. Do not run another rewriting pass after it.

Done when every remaining sentence earns its place and removing another one would make the response less useful or less accurate.

Return

For chat, return the revised draft as the whole final response. For a calling skill, return the revised text for that skill to use with its intended audience.

Done when the output stands alone, contains no duplicated explanation, and uses the return path expected by the caller.

This skill incorporates MIT-licensed guidance adapted from Matt Pocock's wait-what, HumanLayer's show-me, and pstack's unslop. See references/upstream-licenses.md.