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Draft or revise technical documentation in a direct, friendly style based on Modal's documentation. Lead with the concept or benefit, place a runnable example near the top, and reduce jargon and vague promotional wording.

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Writing style guide derived from Modal's documentation voice. Apply when writing or editing docs, guides, tutorials, or technical prose that should read direct, second-person, confident, low-jargon, and example-first. Use to draft new docs in this voice or to revise existing prose toward it.

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  • Draft a guide that starts with a runnable example
  • Rewrite technical prose in a direct, friendly voice
  • Standardize wording and formatting across documentation

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SKILL.md (original)

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Good docs writing

Write docs the way Modal writes them: direct, friendly, confident, and ruthlessly practical. Explain the why in one breath, then show working code. Treat the reader as a capable developer who wants to ship, not a student who needs a lecture.

Read references/style-guide.md for the full rule set (Voice, Structure, Terminology, Punctuation, Code examples, Formatting) and apply every rule while drafting.

The rules that matter most, before you open the reference:

  • Address the reader as "you", never "the user" or "one".
  • Open with the concept or benefit in the first sentence. No throat-clearing.
  • Put a minimal runnable example near the top, then explain what just happened.
  • Remove every em-dash. Use a period, comma, colon, or parentheses instead.
  • Cut vague intensifiers ("seamlessly", "powerful", "robust", "cutting-edge"). Show a thing being easy instead of calling it easy.
  • Backtick every code identifier, command, parameter, path, and filename.

To review existing prose against these rules instead of drafting, use good-docs-audit.

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