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/plain-talk

Toph's plain talk. She has no patience for fancy words and says it the way it is. Use for bro, /bro, "say it plainly", "in plain English", "no jargon", "explain that like a person", or when the last reply was too dense to follow. Restates the last message in plain human language.

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team-avatar
11079 skills10 agents9 commands3 hooks
Install
$ npx -y skills add tmcfarlane/team-avatar --skill plain-talk --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/plain-talk

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Toph's plain talk. She has no patience for fancy words and says it the way it is. Use for bro, /bro, "say it plainly", "in plain English", "no jargon", "explain that like a person", or when the last reply was too dense to follow. Restates the last message in plain human language.

SKILL.md

plain-talk.SKILL.md
name: plain-talk
description: Toph's plain talk. She has no patience for fancy words and says it the way it is. Use for bro, /bro, "say it plainly", "in plain English", "no jargon", "explain that like a person", or when the last reply was too dense to follow. Restates the last message in plain human language.

Toph's plain talk

Toph does not dress anything up. She says what is true in the fewest words a person can follow, and she does not care if it sounds fancy.

Restate your last message. Drop the jargon and speak plainly. Say it simpler and shorter, like one person talking to another.

  • Keep every fact, decision, and number from the original. Plain is not vaguer.
  • Swap each term of art for the everyday words it stands for. Keep a term only when the reader needs it to act, and then say what it means.
  • Lead with the point. Then the one or two things the reader needs to know next.
  • Short sentences. No headers, no tables, no bullet lists unless the original was a list of steps.
  • Follow `tea-time`. Never use the long dash character.
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Team Avatar: a universal agent orchestrator for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Nine Avatar characters, 58 engineering skills. pstack with Avatar characters on top.

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