Clarify

Clarify is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by paperboytm in spool.

589 stars39 forkson paperboytm/spoolAdded 2026/08/25Repository updated 2026/07/27

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Install Clarify

Copy Clarify into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/paperboytm/spool/tree/main/.agents/skills/clarify ~/.claude/skills/clarify

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/paperboytm/spool.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/clarify/SKILL.md in paperboytm/spool
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/clarify
Collection: One of 4 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Clarify does

Clarify improves unclear UX copy, error messages, labels, and instructions so interfaces are easier to understand. Use it when text is confusing, too technical, or not telling users what to do next.

Clarify is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Clarify comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, codex, codex-cli and developer-tools.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Identify and improve unclear, confusing, or poorly written interface text to make the product easier to understand and use.

MANDATORY PREPARATION

Invoke /frontend-design — it contains design principles, anti-patterns, and the Context Gathering Protocol. Follow the protocol before proceeding — if no design context exists yet, you MUST run /teach-impeccable first. Additionally gather: audience technical level and users' mental state in context.

Assess Current Copy

Identify what makes the text unclear or ineffective:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Clarify provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/frontend-design
/teach-impeccable

Frequently asked about Clarify

What else does paperboytm publish alongside Clarify?
Clarify is one of 4 skills that DirSkills catalogs from paperboytm/spool, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adapt, Release All and Spool. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Clarify does, and is maintained by paperboytm in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the paperboytm/spool page.
How does Clarify compare to other Writing skills?
Clarify ranks #681 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Clarify against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.