memorysaver/agentic-engineering-patterns/easy-explain

Wait — I don't understand where you've got to here. Re-pitch that: give me a little bit of context, talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and use this project's own nouns — product-context.yaml and docs/glossary.md where they exist.

The register (for orchestrator skills)

The repair line above is also AEP's standing explain-to-a-human register. Main-session skills that render status, escalations, or decisions for a person (/aep-autopilot status and escalations, /aep-dispatch handoff summaries, /aep-wrap layer-advance asks) write in it by default:

1. One line of context first — what was happening when this became worth

saying.

1. ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — short sentences, one clause,

active voice, one meaning per word.

1. The project's own nouns — the ubiquitous language from

product-context.yaml and the glossary, in place of invented terms and stacked acronyms.

A re-pitch is working if it is shorter and clearer, not shorter and blunter: it adds the premise that was missing instead of only deleting words, and it survives being invoked twice in a row without degrading into terseness.

This skill is user-typed only (/aep-easy-explain), and that is the design: only the human knows when they stopped following. The model reaching for it on its own would grade its own clarity — the same self-evaluation /aep-gen-eval exists to forbid. Each host enforces it with its own native metadata: Claude Code via disable-model-invocation: true in the frontmatter, Codex via agents/openai.yaml (policy.allow_implicit_invocation: false); explicit invocation stays available on both.

Adapted from mattpocock/skills

productivity/wait-what — the three-line original, whose insight is that

naming the listener's state ("wait, you lost me") repairs comprehension,

where naming the output ("be concise") produces telegrams.