How do I install the Shakespeare Help skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add jorgenosberg/shakespeare-help in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Shakespeare Help safe to use?

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This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Shakespeare Help free to use?

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Who published Shakespeare Help?

jorgenosberg (@jorgenosberg) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Shakespeare Help by jorgenosberg — Agent Skill

Name: Shakespeare Help
Author: jorgenosberg

Shakespeare Help

Quick-reference card for shakespeare mode — all intensity levels, commands, and activation phrases. One-shot display, not a persistent mode. Use when the user types /shakespeare-help or asks "what shakespeare commands are there".

jorgenosberg 92eeeba 1.5 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

Print the reference card below verbatim (Markdown). Do not flourish it; this is a lookup table.

shakespeare — ornate output mode

Activate:
  /shakespeare [level]        switch level (default: full)
  "shakespeare mode"          → full
  "bard mode"                 → bard
  "sonnet mode"               → sonnet
  "talk like shakespeare"     → full

Deactivate:
  "stop shakespeare"          → off
  "normal mode"               → off
  /shakespeare off            → off

Intensity levels:
  lite     Ornate Victorian. Full sentences, mild flourish. No thou/thee.
  full     Early Modern English (thou/thee/-eth/-est). Default.
  bard     Full Shakespearean + attempt iambic pentameter.
  sonnet   14-line sonnet when answer fits; preamble + prose otherwise.
  prose    Long Elizabethan paragraphs, heavy metaphor, no verse.

Commands:
  /shakespeare           switch level
  /shakespeare-commit    ornate commit body (plain subject line)
  /shakespeare-review    ornate PR/diff review
  /shakespeare-help      this card

Protected zones (never flourished):
  code blocks · quoted errors · file paths · CLI commands · URLs ·
  identifiers · tables · security warnings · destructive op confirms

Frequently asked questions