novada-tech

Prose Guard — Communication skill for Claude Code

Communication community

Claude Code plugin that checks a chat message, review comment, commit message or pull request description before it is sent — for jargon its readers have never used, and for whether they could act on.

How to install Prose Guard

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open novada-tech/prose-guard and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Prose Guard does

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README

prose-guard

You have read a review comment from an agent that nobody could digest: technically right, three clauses deep, and impossible to act on. You have seen a Slack message with six bolded section labels over four lines of content. You have been told a deploy is fixed in a paragraph that never says what you now have to run.

Nothing about those messages is badly written. They fail because they were not written for anybody in particular.

`prose-guard` is a Claude Code plugin that checks a message on its way out — a chat message, a review comment, a commit message, a pull request description, a document — against two questions:

**Who is going to read this?** **Why should they care?**

Install

/plugin marketplace add novada-tech/prose-guard
/plugin install prose-guard@novada
/prose-guard:setup

If the install summary says `Run /reload-plugins to activate`, run that first — otherwise the hooks are not loaded yet and `/prose-guard:setup` has nothing to configure.

**Run `/prose-guard:setup` before anything else.** Nothing is checked until a level is chosen, and this is where you choose one. It takes a few minutes, asks one question at a time, and does three things.

Asks how much checking you want, with what each level costs. Pick medium or high — what separates them is what can hold a message back, not what it costs.
Offers to install the writing rule: 250 words that reach Claude while a message is being written, rather than when it is sent. It is the only part of this that costs nothing per message.
Reads what is on your machine and proposes which of your tools count as sending prose, rather than assuming. Chat, issue trackers and vendor command-line tools go in here.

Skip it and prose-guard says so at the start of every session, because an install that checks nothing looks exactly like one that has nothing to object to.

Then, when you have a few more minutes: