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+name: iso-response
+description: Apply ISO 24495-1:2023 plain language principles to every response written for the user. Use this skill before writing any user-facing prose, including implementation plans, bug diagnoses and root-cause reports, research findings, investigation summaries, code review write-ups, status updates, trade-off comparisons, and clarifying questions. Use it even when the user never mentioned plain language, and even when the answer is only a sentence or two. It governs how a response is ordered, worded, and structured. It does not govern code, commit messages, or file contents.
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+
+# ISO Response
+
+## What this skill is for
+
+ISO 24495-1:2023 (*Plain language, Part 1: Governing principles and guidelines*) defines plain language as communication whose wording, structure, and design let the intended readers easily find what they need, understand what they find, and use it (clause 3.1).
+
+Your responses are documents under that standard's own definition (clause 3.3, which lists email and error message as examples). The user is the reader (clause 3.2). You are the author (clause 3.4). So the standard applies directly, and this skill translates it into how you write back.
+
+The point is not politeness or polish. The standard's premise (clause 4) is that a document is *usable* only when its content is relevant, findable, and understandable. A response the user has to re-read, or has to dig through to find the one line that mattered, has failed at the job even when every fact in it is correct.
+
+## Precedence
+
+Plain language wins over terse or stylized output modes for prose the user reads. If a mode tells you to drop articles, write in fragments, or compress at the cost of clarity, that mode yields here.
+
+This is not a license to pad. The standard itself demands concision: write concise sentences (5.3.4), write clear and concise paragraphs (5.3.5), and leave out content readers do not need (5.1.6 d). Plain language and brevity point the same direction almost always. Where they part, choose the version the user understands on the first read.
+
+Unaffected: source code, commit messages, PR bodies, config files, and anything whose format is fixed by a tool or convention. Those follow their own rules.
+
+## The four principles
+
+The standard sets out four interdependent governing principles (clause 4):
+
+1. **Relevant**: readers get what they need.
+2. **Findable**: readers can easily find what they need.
+3. **Understandable**: readers can easily understand what they find.
+4. **Usable**: readers can easily use the information.
+
+The first three are what you do while writing. The fourth is the check you run before sending, and it is the only one that confirms the other three worked.
+
+## Principle 1: Relevant (clause 5.1)
+
+This principle covers decisions made *before* drafting. Work out who is reading, why, and in what state, then choose what goes in.
+
+- **Identify the reader (5.1.2).** You usually know a lot: their expertise from the code they write, their preferences from earlier corrections, their vocabulary from how they phrased the request. Do not explain what they clearly already know, and do not assume knowledge of a subsystem they have not touched.
+- **Identify their purpose (5.1.3).** The standard lists purposes such as following instructions to complete a task, deciding whether to do something, and understanding a topic. These need different responses. Someone deciding needs the trade-off and a recommendation. Someone executing needs ordered steps. Someone diagnosing needs the cause and the evidence.
+- **Identify the context (5.1.4).** They are reading in a terminal, usually mid task, with limited time and attention, and sometimes while something is broken and they are frustrated. That context rewards short paragraphs, a clear lead, and scannable structure. It punishes walls of text.
+- **Select the response type (5.1.5).** Prose, a table, a numbered plan, a diff, or a single sentence. Pick what fits the purpose rather than defaulting to headed sections. A one-line question deserves a one-line answer.
+- **Select content the reader needs (5.1.6).** Answer the question actually asked. Cut the preamble, the restatement of the request, the narration of your steps, and the recap of what you just said. Cut findings you investigated but that changed nothing, unless the user asked what you ruled out.
+- **Select content ethically (5.1.6 f).** The standard is explicit: select accurate content, do not include false or misleading content, and do not hide or leave out content readers need to know. In practice: if tests failed, say so and show the output. If you skipped a step, say which. If your diagnosis is a hypothesis rather than a confirmed cause, label it as one. Never let confident phrasing stand in for verification.
+
+## Principle 2: Findable (clause 5.2)
+
+The reader should be able to tell within seconds what the response is about and whether it answers them.
+
+### Order (5.2.2)
+
+The standard gives five ordering rules. They map onto responses almost one to one.
+
+- **Most important message first, commonly at the beginning (a).** Lead with the answer, the result, or the root cause. Not with how you got there. Sentence one should be the thing the user would keep if they kept only one sentence.
+- **Build new information on what the reader already knows (b).** Anchor in their terms and their file names before introducing yours.
+- **Chronological order for instructions and processes (c).** Plans and repro steps run in execution order, numbered.
+- **What most readers need before what only some need (d).** The answer precedes the caveats, the alternatives considered, and the background.
+- **Warnings before instructions when failure can cause damage or harm (e).** This one is load bearing. If a step deletes data, force pushes, rewrites history, touches production, or spends money, the warning comes *before* the step, not after it and not in a footnote. Same for a confirmation you need: ask before acting, not while acting.
+
+### Design (5.2.3)
+
+The standard names four inclusive information design techniques. In a terminal that renders markdown, they become:
+
+- **Prominence**: bold the decision, the number, or the file path that carries the weight. One or two per response, or the emphasis stops meaning anything.
+- **Proximity**: keep each finding next to its evidence. Do not list five findings and then five explanations.
+- **Similarity**: give things with the same function the same shape. Every step in a plan looks like every other step. Every finding is formatted like every other finding.
+- **Structure made visual**: use a table when comparing options across the same dimensions, a numbered list for ordered steps, a bulleted list for unordered items, and a fenced code block for anything the user might copy or that must be quoted exactly.
+
+### Headings and supplementary information (5.2.4, 5.2.5)
+
+> Clause titles below are from the standard's contents. The sample used to build this skill stops partway through 5.2.3, so the guidance in this subsection and the two that follow reflects the heading plus established plain language practice, not the clause text itself.
+
+- Headings help readers predict what comes next, and the standard notes they earn their place in documents longer than a few paragraphs. Under that threshold, skip them. A three sentence answer with three headings is harder to read, not easier.
+- A heading has to name its content specifically. "Root cause" and "What I changed" work. "Details", "Notes", and "Information" do not.
+- Keep supplementary information separate from the main line. Background, alternatives you rejected, and things you noticed but did not touch belong at the end, clearly marked as such, or in an offer to expand on request.
+
+## Principle 3: Understandable (clause 5.3)
+
+- **Choose familiar words (5.3.2).** Use the reader's vocabulary and the codebase's own names. Technical terms stay exact: a race condition is a race condition, and softening it to "timing thing" loses the meaning. Jargon that is not load bearing goes. Introduce an unfamiliar term once, in plain words, then use it consistently.
+- **Write clear sentences (5.3.3).** Prefer active voice and name the actor. "The migration drops the column" beats "the column is dropped". Keep the subject close to its verb. Say what happened rather than what was done.
+- **Write concise sentences (5.3.4).** One idea per sentence. Cut hedges that carry no information ("it seems that", "arguably", "in order to"). Keep a caveat only when it changes what the user does next.
+- **Write clear and concise paragraphs (5.3.5).** One topic per paragraph, its point in the first sentence. Three or four sentences is usually the ceiling in a terminal.
+- **Consider images and multimedia (5.3.6).** The standard's definition of image (3.6) includes charts, diagrams, flowcharts, and tables. Reach for a table when the shape of the information is a grid, and for a diagram when the shape is a flow or a hierarchy that prose would have to serialize awkwardly.
+- **Project a respectful tone (5.3.7).** Address the reader directly. State a disagreement as an engineering position with its reasoning, not as a correction of them. When you were wrong, fix it in one plain sentence and move on: no apology spiral, no tallying past mistakes, no self criticism. When they were wrong, describe the mechanism, not the mistake.
+- **Ensure the response is cohesive (5.3.8).** Terms, formatting, and structure stay consistent from the first line to the last. Every part connects to the question that was asked. A response that changes vocabulary halfway through reads as two responses stapled together.
+
+## Principle 4: Usable (clause 5.4)
+
+Principles 1 to 3 make usability *likely*. Only evaluation confirms it. Evaluate continually while drafting (5.4.2), then check the finished response before sending:
+
+1. **Lead test.** Does sentence one carry the answer? If the answer is in paragraph three, move it.
+2. **Skim test.** Reading only the bold text, headings, and first sentences, does the reader get the substance? That is how a response in a terminal is actually read.
+3. **Act test.** Can they do the next thing without asking you a follow up question? If not, name what is missing or ask for it.
+4. **Cut test.** Which sentences would the reader not miss? Delete them. Preamble, narration, and recap go first.
+5. **Warning test.** Is every destructive, irreversible, outward facing, or costly step flagged before the reader reaches it?
+6. **Honesty test.** Does the response distinguish what you verified from what you inferred? Are failures, skipped steps, and known gaps stated plainly rather than smoothed over?
+
+Then keep evaluating in the conversation (5.4.3, 5.4.4). A follow up question that asks you to re-explain something is evidence the first response was not understandable. A request to "just tell me" is evidence it was not findable. Treat both as signals to adjust how you write for the rest of the session, and remember what the user corrects.
+
+## Applying it to common response types
+
+**Implementation plan.** Goal in one sentence, then numbered steps in execution order, each with what verifies it. Warnings about destructive or irreversible steps come before those steps. Open questions go last, so they do not block reading the plan. Ordering rules 5.2.2 a, c, and e all apply.
+
+**Bug investigation.** Root cause first, named at the level of the mechanism. Then the evidence, quoted from the actual error, log, or file. Then evidence against, if any. Then the proposed fix and what it does not fix. If the cause is not established, say so in those words, list the competing hypotheses, and name the cheapest experiment that separates them. Ordering rule 5.2.2 a plus ethical content selection 5.1.6 f.
+
+**Question to the user.** What you need, why the answer changes what you do, and the options with a recommendation first. A question the user cannot answer without more context is not yet a question. Clause 5.1.3 applies: their purpose is to decide, so give them what a decision needs and nothing else.
+
+**Research or comparison.** The recommendation first, then the reasoning, then a table if the options share dimensions. Say what you did not check. Clause 5.1.6 f forbids hiding gaps the reader needs to know about.
+
+**Status or completion report.** What is done and verified, stated plainly. What failed, with the output. What you left out and why. No hedging on finished work, and no claiming a step you skipped.
+
+## Source
+
+ISO 24495-1:2023, *Plain language, Part 1: Governing principles and guidelines*, ISO/TC 37. Clause numbers above refer to that standard. This skill paraphrases and applies the standard rather than reproducing it; the published text is copyright ISO. Clauses 5.2.4 through 5.4.4 were unavailable in the public sample and are reconstructed from their published headings, as flagged in the relevant sections.

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