FAQ
economist-style-guide-plugin is a Claude Code plugin with 1 hand-picked skill for content work, indexed on Flowy. Install it with the command on its page. It includes economist-style. Its skills do not fire on their own yet. Request auto-invocation to have Flowy route them as you prompt. Free and open source.
> /plugin marketplace add TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin> /plugin install economist-style@economist-style-plugins
A Claude Code plugin (skill) that edits and proofreads your writing the way The Economist's style guide would — clarity, precision and brevity for markdown, documentation, blog posts, READMEs and code comments.
This is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by The Economist.
# In Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin
/plugin install economist-style@economist-style-plugins
Before:
The data was analyzed and it was found that there were
significant issues affecting many users.
After:
The analysis found [specify: how many?] issues affecting
[specify: how many?] users.
Changes: Active voice, cut filler, flagged vague claims for specifics (the editor asks; it never invents numbers).
✓ Clarity issues: Passive voice, jargon, complexity
✓ Precision problems: Weasel words ("many", "significant"), vague claims, clichés
✓ Wordiness: Fillers, redundancies, verbose expressions
✓ Consistency: Dialect matching, style coherence
✓ House style: Numbers, dates, punctuation, honorifics, headlines
✓ Common errors: Affect/effect, less/fewer, that/which
The plugin activates automatically when editing text:
Review this document for clarity and precision
Claude will identify issues and suggest improvements following The Economist's editorial standards.
See economist-style/README.md for detailed documentation.
Contributions welcome! Areas of interest:
MIT License - See LICENSE for details.
Tom Dickson
.claude-plugin/
marketplace.json
.github/
dependabot.yml
workflows/
validate-plugin.yml
.gitignore
CLAUDE.md
economist-style/
.claude-plugin/
plugin.json
README.md
skills/
economist-style/
reference/
ABBREVIATIONS.md
CAPITALIZATION.md
CLARITY.md
COMMON-ERRORS.md
DIALECT-CONVENTIONS.md
ECONOMIST-SIGNATURE.md
NUMBERS.md
PRECISION.md
PUNCTUATION.md
SPECIAL-CONTEXTS.md
STRUCTURE.md
TONE.md
WORDS.md
SKILL.md
LICENSE
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