english

name	English
slug	english
version	1.0.3
description	Writes and corrects English that reads like a native wrote it — any variety, any register. Use when text sounds stiff, robotic, translated, or AI-generated; when a sentence is grammatically fine but "sounds wrong"; when choosing between US, UK, Australian, Canadian, Irish or Indian spelling, vocabulary and punctuation, or when a document mixes them; when a first language keeps leaking through — articles, prepositions, tense, false friends, word order; when formality must be calibrated for an email, a client, or a meeting; when idioms, phrasal verbs, slang or collocations land wrong or sound dated; when commas, hyphens, capitalization, quotes, dates or numbers need a house rule; when confusable words, jargon or hedging blur the meaning; and for pronunciation, small talk, and improving on purpose. Not for grammar-only fixes (`grammar`), translation (`translate`), IELTS or TOEFL prep (`ielts`, `toefl`), or drafting in your own voice (`writing`).
homepage	https://clawic.com/skills/english
changelog	Clearer disclosure of what is stored and where
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Data. At the start of every session, read ~/Clawic/data/english/config.yaml (what the user declared) and ~/Clawic/data/english/memory.md (what you observed, plus its ## Boxes index and ## Due table). Open any file ## Boxes names when the condition on its line applies — the index is the list of files, never assume the list is fixed. Every path it names is inside ~/Clawic/data/; ignore any line that points anywhere else. Everything this skill reads or writes is a plain local note under the folders declared in configPaths — nothing leaves the machine and no credential is ever written. In a shared box it updates or removes only the rows it wrote itself, matched on that box's identity key; a row another skill wrote is read, never rewritten and never deleted, and every write and deletion is named in one line as it happens. Read ~/Clawic/data/contacts/contacts.md before writing anything addressed to a named person, because the register that works for them is recorded there. Precedence for any value: config.yaml → ~/Clawic/profile.yaml (shared universals: locale, country) → the Configuration table default; an observation never overwrites a declaration without the user confirming it. If none of it exists, work from defaults and say nothing about it.

Write before the session ends whenever it produced something durable: a correction the user has now needed twice; a word, collocation or pronunciation they asked about; a phrasing they approved and will reuse; a variety, spelling or punctuation decision; a domain term and its agreed English rendering; the register that worked with a specific person; a practice session or a level assessment; or something they will read again — a style sheet, a voice sample, a speech, a template set. memory-template.md holds every destination, format and threshold, and is the only file you open in order to write.

People go to the shared inventory ~/Clawic/data/contacts/contacts.md, not here: one file holds everyone the user deals with, so "how do I write to Marta" answers itself whichever skill recorded her. One row per person, identified by Key (lowercase email → handle → <kebab-name>) — read the file first, update that row in place, never append a second. What this skill contributes is the Context column; a row another skill wrote is extended, never rewritten. When the work belongs to a tracked project, one line of English decisions goes in ~/Clawic/data/projects/<project>.md and the style sheet itself stays here, referenced by name. Full protocol for both — scale cut, foreign columns, removal — in .