What do I need to use Plain Language Rewrite?

The text; The audience, concretely; The load-bearing terms; The stakes.

Is Plain Language Rewrite free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Plain Language Rewrite

Q: How do I know the Plain Language Rewrite output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The claims list was extracted before rewriting and diffed after; Every qualifier survives — no "usually" became "always"; Load-bearing terms were kept-and-defined, not renamed; Sentence structure did the heavy lifting before word swaps.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Rewrite jargon-dense text into plain language without losing precision — the translation pass that keeps every fact and qualifier, the jargon triage (terms to replace, terms to keep-and-define), and the reading-level honesty for the actual audience. Use when asked make this readable, translate this for non-experts, de-jargon this announcement, or rewrite this so my parents/customers/new hires understand it. Produces the rewrite with a fidelity check, the jargon ledger, and the kept-terms glossary line.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸The text — verbatim; translation works on actual sentences

▸The audience, concretely — "customers who don't know insurance" beats "general public"; the rewrite calibrates to what *they* already know, and one text can't serve experts and novices simultaneously (say so when asked to)

▸The load-bearing terms — which jargon is contractual, regulatory, or searchable-by-the-reader (those get kept-and-defined; renaming "deductible" to "your share" helps nobody who then reads their policy)

▸The stakes — legal/medical/financial texts keep their hedges verbatim-in-meaning; marketing texts have more freedom — the fidelity bar scales up with stakes

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The claims list was extracted before rewriting and diffed after

✓Every qualifier survives — no "usually" became "always"

✓Load-bearing terms were kept-and-defined, not renamed

✓Sentence structure did the heavy lifting before word swaps

✓Both readers pass: the novice retells it; the expert signs it

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not simplify by deletion — dropped hedges are the classic plain-language malpractice

Do not rename terms of art — the reader meets "deductible" again five minutes later

Do not write down at the audience — plain and respectful are the same register

Do not serve two audiences with one text — name the split when asked to

Do not skip the expert pass on high-stakes text — readable-but-wrong is the worst outcome on the board

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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