ClaudSkills / General / legal-compliance

Plain English

Quality score: 70/100  ·  Category: General  ·  Sub-category: legal-compliance
Translates every clause of a contract into plain language at an 8th-grade reading level and flags deliberately confusing language patterns. Use when a user says "explain this contract", "what does this mean", or needs a non-lawyer to understand an agreement. Trigger with "/plain-english" or "translate this contract to plain English".

What this skill does

Plain English is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the legal-compliance sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/plain-english/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when a user says "explain this contract", "what does this mean", or needs a non-lawyer to understand an agreement. Trigger with "/plain-english" or "translate this contract to plain English".

Who uses this skill

The Plain English skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/plain-english
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/plain-english/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/plain-english/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/plain-english/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/plain-english/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\plain-english\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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