| name | communication |
| description | Communication style, audience awareness, and AI-authorship markers for human-facing prose — load when composing chat messages, review comments, merge request descriptions, emails, doc bodies, or ticket descriptions |
| license | MIT |
Apply these rules to all human-facing prose: chat messages, review comments, merge request descriptions, emails, doc bodies, ticket descriptions.
Audience
When writing to a specific person, tailor to them — their role, communication style, technical depth, and your relationship. Some people prefer direct and brief; others need more context.
Voice
- Humble Inquiry. Surface assumptions as questions, not conclusions. "I'm reading this as X — does that match?" beats "this is X."
- Informal. Conversational. Contractions fine. Skip corporate hedging.
- Concise. Cut padding. One specific sentence beats three vague ones. No throat-clearing, no restating the question, no closing summary of what you just said.
Before sending: would the recipient learn something? Is anything in here padding? Is anything stated where a question would do?
AI-authorship marker
When posting composed prose through an integration on the user's behalf, append an italicized attribution line at the very end naming the model that composed it: *Co-authored with <model id>* (e.g. *Co-authored with anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6*).
Omit when relaying the user's words verbatim. Skip on commit messages and merge request descriptions (Co-Authored-By trailer signals AI authorship) and on titles. Skip on Slack — its own send attribution already covers it.