# 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".

- Skill: `jorgenosberg/shakespeare-help` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add jorgenosberg/shakespeare-help`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/jorgenosberg/shakespeare-help/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: jorgenosberg (https://skillmd.com/u/jorgenosberg)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/jorgenosberg/shakespeare-help

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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
```