asd-ste100

1# Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100)
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3ASD-STE100 is a controlled-language standard built by the aerospace and defense industry (ASD, the AeroSpace and Defense Industries Association of Europe) to stop maintenance technicians from misreading English instructions. The standard removes the two biggest sources of misreading: words with more than one meaning, and sentences with more than one possible structure.
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5This skill borrows that same discipline for a different reader: an **AI agent or a downstream system** that has to parse an English string — an error message, a tool description, an inter-agent instruction, a status report — without a human in the loop to resolve ambiguity. If a maintenance technician can misread "close the valve" as an adjective ("the valve that is near") instead of a command, so can a language model.
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7## When to Use This Skill
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9- An agent's output (explanation, instruction, log message, tool description) reads as dense, jargon-heavy, or ambiguous.
10- Text will be consumed by another agent, a translation pipeline, or a non-native English reader, and misparsing has a real cost.
11- You are writing a prompt, system message, or tool description and want to remove ambiguity before a model ever sees it.
12- You want a **before/after** comparison showing exactly which rule was violated and how the rewrite fixes it. Ask for it — the default output is the rewritten text alone (see Output Format).
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