Agent skill

Aussie Business English

by jezweb in jezweb/claude-skills

Australian business English for professional writing — warm, direct, EN-AU spelling (colour, organise, centre), no filler words.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Aussie Business English

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill aussie-business-english -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jezweb/claude-skills aussie-business-english --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jezweb/claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/writing/skills/aussie-business-english .claude/skills/aussie-business-english && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
aussie-business-english
GitHub stars
1.1k
Token cost
~680 tokens
SKILL.md length
335 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
52
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Australian business English for professional writing — warm, direct, EN-AU spelling (colour, organise, centre), no filler words.

  • The user is writing for an Australian audience: emails
  • SKILL.md covers Non-negotiables, Tone, Swap list and The tone, in one example
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Client communications

What it does

Aussie Business English is an agent skill from jezweb/claude-skills. Australian business English for professional writing — warm, direct, EN-AU spelling (colour, organise, centre), no filler words. Use whenever the user is writing for an Australian audience: emails, chat messages, proposals, client communications, blog posts, web copy, or any business writing. Apply to drafting, editing, and tone-checking professional text.

Its SKILL.md is about 680 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Blog and article writing and Proposals and quotes. The repository describes itself as: Skills for Claude Code CLI such as full stack dev Cloudflare, React, Tailwind v4, and AI integrations. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user is writing for an Australian audience: emails
  • Client communications
  • Any business writing

Example prompts

  • “/aussie-business-english”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1260fa7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Aussie Business English loads about 680 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 96 tokens; SKILL.md has 335 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~96
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~680

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jezweb/claude-skills at commit 1260fa7, republished under its MIT licence (© jezweb). 335 words, ~680 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aussie-business-english/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aussie-business-english
description
Australian business English for professional writing — warm, direct, EN-AU spelling (colour, organise, centre), no filler words. Use whenever the user is writing for an Australian audience: emails, chat messages, proposals, client communications, blog posts, web copy, or any business writing. Apply to drafting, editing, and tone-checking professional text.

Aussie Business English

Write like a competent professional who happens to be Australian: professional but not corporate, warm but not forced, direct but not blunt. Say it once, plainly, and stop.

Non-negotiables

  • Australian spelling: colour, organise, centre, travelling, defence. Noun/verb pairs: licence/license, practice/practise.
  • No filler words. Cut "actually", "really", "basically", "simply", "essentially" and "just" wherever deleting them changes nothing. Headings especially: "How a toilet works", never "How a toilet actually works".
  • No AI tells. Avoid em dashes, "delve", "seamless", "robust", "it's worth noting", "not just X, but Y", and exclamation marks in business copy.
  • Lead with the point. First sentence carries the answer or the ask. Short paragraphs, active voice, natural contractions. Be specific: "by Thursday", not "soon".

Tone

Default is friendly professional. Open with "Hi [Name]". Close with "Cheers" (or "Thanks" when asking for something, "Kind regards" for new clients and formal documents). Keep "Dear [Name]" and "Yours sincerely" for formal or legal letters only. Never "Dear Sir/Madam", "Best", or "Warm regards".

Match the reader: short message in, short reply out. For corporate clients, go one notch more formal and keep the warmth, but don't mirror their jargon back.

Bad news: direct and kind, one "sorry" at most, then the path forward. Saying no: brief reason, offer an alternative if you have one. Prices: state them plainly ("The cost is $4,500"), no hedging.

Swap list

Not thisThis
reach outget in touch
circle back / touch basefollow up / catch up
leverageuse
deep divecloser look
bandwidthtime, capacity
deliverablesthe work, what we'll provide
moving forward(drop it)

No forced Australianisms in writing: no "G'day", "fair dinkum" or "crikey"; "mate" once at most; "no worries" only for small acknowledgements, never for serious problems.

The tone, in one example

Hi Sarah,

Thanks for the chat yesterday. I've put together a quote based on what we discussed: $4,500 for the full site including the booking system, covering design, development and launch.

Happy to jump on a call if you've got any questions.

Cheers, Jeremy

© jezweb, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/writing/skills/aussie-business-english of jezweb/claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1260fa7

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Questions about Aussie Business English

What does Aussie Business English do?

Australian business English for professional writing — warm, direct, EN-AU spelling (colour, organise, centre), no filler words. Aussie Business English is an agent skill from jezweb/claude-skills. Australian business English for professional writing — warm, direct, EN-AU spelling (colour, organise, centre), no filler words.

When should I use Aussie Business English?

Aussie Business English fits situations like: the user is writing for an Australian audience: emails; client communications; any business writing.

How do I install Aussie Business English in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill aussie-business-english -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/writing/skills/aussie-business-english in jezweb/claude-skills) into .claude/skills/aussie-business-english in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Aussie Business English in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill aussie-business-english -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/writing/skills/aussie-business-english in jezweb/claude-skills) into .agents/skills/aussie-business-english in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Aussie Business English in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill aussie-business-english -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aussie-business-english, .gemini/skills/aussie-business-english, .github/skills/aussie-business-english and .opencode/skills/aussie-business-english in your project.

What does Aussie Business English need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Aussie Business English is instructions for the agent only.

Does Aussie Business English access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Aussie Business English safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Aussie Business English use?

Aussie Business English is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Aussie Business English use?

About 680 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Aussie Business English?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Aussie Business English: Khazix WeChat Article Writer (KKKKhazix/khazix-skills, 21k stars), Figure (vectorize-io/hindsight, 48k stars), Sepia (Nanako0129/sepia, 3.1k stars) and Blog Post Drafting (luongnv89/claude-howto, 42k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Aussie Business English?

jezweb (a GitHub user) maintains it in jezweb/claude-skills, which has 1,055 GitHub stars. The repository holds 52 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: jezweb/claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.