SimpleEnglish skill by AminBlg
Shares rank 22 of 23 agent skills by recommenders
Free agent skill that makes LLM-written code comments and docstrings clearer, based on the ASD-STE100 simplified English standard. No criticism recorded.
Free agent skill that makes LLM-written code comments and docstrings clearer, based on the ASD-STE100 simplified English standard. No criticism recorded.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Improves code comments and docstrings
“I also specify to use https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish/ for all writing it does including code comments.”
Comment from 18 Aug 2026 in “GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%” “it significantly improves the quality of the docstrings and code comments”
Comment from 24 Aug 2026 in “My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality”
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| SimpleEnglish skill by AminBlgThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“OpenAI follows that really, really well.”
“borrowing some from github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish”
“it significantly improves the quality of the docstrings and code comments”
“they are nearly always 10-20% smaller, plus easier to read”
“I also specify to use https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish/ for all writing it does including code comments.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.