Asd Ste100 Skill

ASD-STE100 Skill — Simplified Technical English for Agent Output

A Claude Code skill that rewrites dense, ambiguous English into [ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English](https://www.asd-ste100.org/) (STE) — the controlled-language standard the aerospace and defense industry built so aircraft maintenance instructions cannot be misread.

This skill repurposes that same discipline for a different reader: an **AI agent** parsing another agent's output, a tool description, an error message, or an inter-agent instruction, with no human in the loop to resolve ambiguity.

Why STE, and Why for Agents

STE exists because a misread instruction on an aircraft can kill people, and the intended readers were often not native English speakers with no author to call for clarification. The standard's fix: one meaning per word, active voice, simple tenses, one instruction per sentence, short sentences, no dropped words.

An LLM agent parsing another agent's output is in a strikingly similar position — no back-channel, no way to ask "did you mean X or Y?" The same rules that keep a mechanic from misreading a torque spec keep a downstream agent from misreading a tool description or an inter-agent message.

Before / After

Before	After
"This tool will attempt to synchronize state across the various backends that have been configured, and if a conflict is detected it may resolve it automatically depending on the strategy that has been set, or otherwise it will surface the conflict for manual review."	"The tool synchronizes state across the configured backends. If it finds a conflict, it checks the current strategy. If the strategy allows automatic resolution, the tool resolves the conflict. If not, the tool reports the conflict for manual review."
"An error may have occurred while processing your request due to a possible mismatch in the expected data format, which could be caused by an outdated client version."	"The request failed. The data format did