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Writing Style — Design skill for Claude Code

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Writing style for commits, PRs, and issues.

How to install Writing Style

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/elastic-ai-dotnet-writing-style/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/elastic-ai-dotnet-writing-style && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/ai-dotnet/HEAD/.claude/skills/writing-style.md -o ~/.claude/skills/elastic-ai-dotnet-writing-style/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Writing Style does

Writing style for commits, PRs, and issues

Every commit message, PR body, and issue filed in this repo follows these rules. Skills that write those artifacts read this file first.

Governing principles (ISO 24495-1)

Relevant — write for a reviewer who has not seen the branch. Cut whatever the diff already states plainly.
Findable — the first sentence states the outcome. A newcomer reads it and knows whether the change concerns them.
Understandable — plain words, sho

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