Pragmatics Communication

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Security · Sub-category: security-misc

Pragmatics and communicative competence across languages -- speech acts (Austin/Searle), Grice's conversational maxims and implicature, politeness theory (Brown & Levinson), face-threatening acts, discourse structure, turn-taking, repair strategies, register and formality, cross-cultural communication, communicative strategies (circumlocution, approximation, appeal for assistance), and the gap between grammatical competence and communicative performance. Use when teaching communication skills, analyzing cross-cultural misunderstandings, building conversational fluency, or understanding why grammatically correct sentences can be pragmatically inappropriate.

What this skill does

Pragmatics Communication is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the security-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/pragmatics-communication/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when teaching communication skills, analyzing cross-cultural misunderstandings, building conversational fluency, or understanding why grammatically correct sentences can be pragmatically inappropriate.

Who uses this skill

The Pragmatics Communication skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. 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/pragmatics-communication
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/pragmatics-communication/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/pragmatics-communication/SKILL.md

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

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/pragmatics-communication/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\pragmatics-communication\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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