Orwell Writing

by tamdogood

Orwell Writing is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by tamdogood in builder-essential-skills.

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Install Orwell Writing

Copy Orwell Writing 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/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills/tree/main/skills/orwell-writing ~/.claude/skills/orwell-writing

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/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/orwell-writing/SKILL.md in tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/orwell-writing
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1279 skills

What Orwell Writing does

Orwell Writing helps draft, rewrite, and edit prose using George Orwell’s rules and ASD-STE100 plain-English principles. Use it for technical, business, creative, or general writing when clarity, brevity, and preserved meaning matter.

Orwell Writing is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Orwell Writing comes from a repository tagged agent, ai, ai-agents, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Orwell Writing

Overview

Use Orwell's rules and ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) as practical filters for clear, direct, and honest prose. Use STE by default for technical, instructional, business, and product prose. Apply the rules to both drafting and revision, but do not erase deliberate voice, character, rhythm, humor, or genre when the user clearly wants them.

STE has writing rules and a controlled dictionary. Use an approved word with its approved meaning when the dictionary is available. Do not claim strict STE conformance without checking the current ASD-STE100 issue and dictionary.

Core Rules

Remember these rules from "Politics and the English Language":

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

Frequently asked about Orwell Writing

What else does tamdogood publish alongside Orwell Writing?
Orwell Writing is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tamdogood/builder-essential-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Async Learning Teacher, Build Scenario Tests and Code Standards. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Orwell Writing does, and is maintained by tamdogood in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tamdogood/builder-essential-skills page.
How does Orwell Writing compare to other Writing skills?
Orwell Writing ranks #1113 by stars among the 1279 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 Orwell Writing against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.