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Make prose terse and tight in the style of The Elements of Style by Strunk & White.
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Make a set of things (code, prose, config, docs) consistent along a dimension the user names, by picking a canonical form and conforming every member to it.
Remove illegal states from data structures by redesigning their types so the illegal states cannot be represented at all.
Remove unnecessary comments from code: tombstones, redundant restatements, and comments a well-named variable or function would replace.
Perform a task with a worker agent, critique it with an adversary agent, and apply the accepted critiques with a reconciler agent.
Replace jargon and imported metaphors in code and prose with concrete, domain-fitting terms a reader understands without translation.
Create a new Claude Code skill following the conventions of existing skills.
| name | strunkify |
| description | Make prose terse and tight in the style of The Elements of Style by Strunk & White. |
| argument-hint | [file path or text to tighten] |
Make the given prose terse and tight in the style of The Elements of Style by Strunk & White.
jj show --git
Arguments: $ARGUMENTS
Tighten the target named in the arguments if given; otherwise the prose changed in the current commit shown above; if there are no arguments and the commit has no changes, ask the user what to tighten and stop.
These aren't exhaustive. Reason from first principles when none fits cleanly.