skill
communication-style
This skill should be used when generating spec artifacts (research.md, requirements.md, design.md, tasks.md), formatting agent output, structuring phase results, or when any Ralph agent needs guidance on concise, scannable output formatting. Applies to all Ralph spec phase agents.
Description as published by the maintainer. Source
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active — Most recent push to the repository was 2026-07-23.
Signals
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| Signal | Value | What it measures | Window | Observed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 433 | Stars on the repository that contains this skill, not on the skill itself. A collection of fifty skills shares one number, so it says nothing about this particular skill. | cumulative, all time | GitHub | |
| Last commit | 2026-07-23 | Most recent push to the containing repository. It may reflect work on a different skill in the same collection. | point in time | GitHub | |
| repository status | active | The repository holding this skill exists and is not archived. | as of fetch | GitHub |
Will this work with your setup?
Install location suggests this is meant for claude-code. The author tagged this repository "claude-code-skills" on GitHub. That is their statement of intent, not a test result.
We have not run this skill against a task with and without it enabled, so we cannot tell you whether it improves anything, what it costs in tokens, or whether it duplicates behaviour your harness already has. When we have run that test, the result will appear on this page with the task, the versions and the budget it used.
The skill definition lives at plugins/ralph-specum/skills/communication-style/SKILL.md in https://github.com/tzachbon/smart-ralph.
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