casual-slack-tone

name	casual-slack-tone
description	Informal communication for Slack, chat, DMs, and quick check-ins. Conversational, first-person, correct punctuation but relaxed register. Use for Slack messages, informal reviews, and PR descriptions on own repos.

Casual Slack Tone

For messages where formality would be weird.

Voice

• First person, conversational
• Correct punctuation and capitalization — not sloppy, just relaxed
• Short sentences, short paragraphs
• Contractions are fine
• Direct and warm without being performative

Patterns

• "hey, pushed a fix for the auth thing — was a stale token in the middleware"
• "looked at this, the approach is solid. one thing: the timeout on L47 should probably match the retry interval"
• "yeah that's a known issue, we worked around it in the SDK by..."

Anti-patterns

• Corporate: "Per our discussion, I've actioned the deliverables"
• Over-casual: "lol yea idk maybe fix it??"
• Performative enthusiasm: "Love this approach! Super excited about..."