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Uk Business English

by jezweb in jezweb/claude-skills

British business English writing style for professional communications — polished, understated, EN-GB spelling (colour, organise, centre).

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Uk Business English

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jezweb/claude-skills uk-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/uk-business-english .claude/skills/uk-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
uk-business-english
GitHub stars
1.1k
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,174 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
52
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

British business English writing style for professional communications — polished, understated, EN-GB spelling (colour, organise, centre).

  • Works in 5 steps: Kind regards -- default, works almost… → Thanks / Many thanks -- when… → Best wishes -- warm, slightly less… → …
  • The user is writing for a British audience: emails
  • SKILL.md covers Spelling (EN-GB), Tone Ladder, Sign-off Ranking and Avoid List, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Uk Business English is an agent skill from jezweb/claude-skills. British business English writing style for professional communications — polished, understated, EN-GB spelling (colour, organise, centre). Use whenever the user is writing for a British 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 2.2k 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 Proposals and quotes, Blog and article writing and Brand voice and tone. 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 a British audience: emails
  • Client communications
  • Any business writing

Example prompts

  • “/uk-business-english”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Kind regards -- default, works almost everywhere
  2. Thanks / Many thanks -- when appreciating effort or asking for something
  3. Best wishes -- warm, slightly less formal than Kind regards
  4. Regards -- neutral, slightly cooler
  5. Yours sincerely -- formal letters, proposals to new clients

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

Uk Business English loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 96 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,174 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
~2.2k

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). 1,174 words, ~2,197 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/uk-business-english/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
uk-business-english
description
British business English writing style for professional communications — polished, understated, EN-GB spelling (colour, organise, centre). Use whenever the user is writing for a British audience: emails, chat messages, proposals, client communications, blog posts, web copy, or any business writing. Apply to drafting, editing, and tone-checking professional text.

UK Business English

Professional and measured. Polite without being obsequious. Direct without being abrupt. Naturally British without being a caricature. Write like a competent professional who happens to be British -- not like a Dickens character, not like an American tech startup, and not like someone who just discovered the word "whilst".

Spelling (EN-GB)

PatternBritishNot
-ourcolour, favour, honour, behaviourcolor, favor
-iseorganise, realise, specialise, recogniseorganize, realize
-recentre, fibre, metre, theatrecenter, fiber
-encelicence (noun), defence, offencelicense (noun), defense
-ise/-izeBoth accepted in GB; prefer -ise for consistency—
Double Ltravelling, cancelling, modellingtraveling, canceling
-oguecatalogue, dialogue, analoguecatalog, dialog
-ementjudgement, acknowledgementjudgment (legal only)

Noun/verb splits:

NounVerb
licencelicense
practicepractise
adviceadvise

Common traps: enquiry (general), inquiry (formal/legal), kerb (road edge), tyre (wheel), programme (general), program (computing), cheque (payment), grey (not gray).

Date format: Day Month Year, no comma -- 15 January 2026. Abbreviated: 15 Jan 2026. Never Month/Day/Year.

Tone Ladder

Match formality to context. Default to "polite professional" -- a step more formal than Australian or American baseline, but still warm.

ContextFormalityGreetingSign-off
Slack/Teams (internal)Casual"Hi" / first nameNone needed
Email to existing clientPolite professional"Hi [Name]""Kind regards" / "Thanks"
Email to new clientProfessional"Dear [Name]" / "Hi [Name]""Kind regards"
Proposal or quoteProfessional"Dear [Name]""Kind regards" / "Yours sincerely"
Follow-up after meetingPolite professional"Hi [Name]""Kind regards" / "Thanks"
Cold outreachProfessional"Dear [Name]" / "Hi [Name]""Kind regards"
Formal letter or legalFormal"Dear [Name]" / "Dear Sir or Madam""Yours sincerely" / "Yours faithfully"

Rule: "Yours sincerely" when you know their name. "Yours faithfully" when you don't (Dear Sir or Madam). Getting this wrong marks you as careless.

Never use: "Hey" in first contact, "To Whom It May Concern" (use "Dear Sir or Madam"), "Warmest regards", "Respectfully yours".

Sign-off Ranking

From most to least common in UK SME context:

  1. Kind regards -- default, works almost everywhere
  2. Thanks / Many thanks -- when appreciating effort or asking for something
  3. Best wishes -- warm, slightly less formal than Kind regards
  4. Regards -- neutral, slightly cooler
  5. Yours sincerely -- formal letters, proposals to new clients

Avoid: "Best" on its own (reads as American), "Cheers" in first contact (fine once rapport is established), "Warm regards" (overdone), "Ta" (too informal for anything written).

Avoid List

Americanisms

Replace these reflexively:

Instead ofWrite
"reach out""get in touch" / "contact"
"touch base""catch up" / "check in"
"circle back""come back to" / "follow up"
"leverage" (verb)"use" / "make the most of"
"moving forward""going forward" / "from here" (or drop it)
"actionable insights""useful findings" / "what we found"
"deep dive""closer look" / "detailed review"
"bandwidth" (for time)"time" / "capacity"
"gotten""got"
"could care less""couldn't care less"
"loop in""include" / "copy in"
"deliverables""what we'll provide" / "the work"
"Monday through Friday""Monday to Friday"
"on the team""in the team"
Forced Britishisms

Avoid in written professional comms:

  • "Cheerio", "pip pip", "tally-ho" -- never in professional writing
  • "Bloody", "blimey", "crikey" -- spoken register only, and even then sparingly
  • Overuse of "rather" and "quite" -- one per email is plenty
  • "I dare say" -- sounds like a period drama
  • "Awfully good" -- ironic understatement has limits in business writing
  • "Old chap", "old boy" -- not this century

Writing Principles

  1. Lead with the point. First sentence answers the question or states the purpose. Context comes after, not before. British politeness doesn't mean burying the lead.

  2. Short paragraphs. Two to three sentences max. One idea per paragraph. White space is your friend.

  3. Measured contractions. "We've", "I'll", "that's" are fine in emails. Use fewer in proposals and formal letters. The goal is human, not robotic -- but the baseline is slightly more formal than American or Australian English.

  4. Active voice. "We'll send the report on Monday" not "The report will be dispatched on Monday."

  5. Specific over vague. "I'll have this to you by Thursday" not "I'll revert at my earliest convenience."

  6. One ask per email. Multiple requests? Number them. Don't bury the second ask in paragraph four.

  7. Understate rather than overstate. "That's quite a good result" lands better than "That's an absolutely incredible, game-changing result!" Restraint signals confidence.

Examples

Show full SKILL.md (485 more words)Show less
Status update to existing client

Too corporate:

Dear Mr Thompson, I write to apprise you of the current status of your website redesign project. Please find herewith a summary of deliverables completed to date and the projected timeline for the remaining programme of work.

Right tone:

Hi David,

Quick update on the website -- we've finished the homepage and the three main service pages. Coming together nicely.

Next up is the contact form and booking system, which we'll have ready by the end of next week. I'll send through a preview link once it's on the staging site.

Kind regards, [Your name]

Delivering a quote

Too stiff:

Dear Client, Please find enclosed our formal quotation for the proposed scope of works as discussed. We trust this meets with your approval and look forward to receiving your favourable response at your earliest convenience.

Right tone:

Hi Sarah,

Thanks for the call yesterday -- good to get a clear picture of what you need.

I've put together a quote based on what we discussed. In short: GBP 3,500 for the full site, including the booking system. That covers design, development, and getting it live on your domain.

Happy to arrange a call if you have any questions.

Kind regards, [Your name]

Saying no to a request

Too blunt:

We can't do that.

Too soft:

Whilst we greatly appreciate your most kind enquiry and would very much welcome the opportunity to explore this avenue further, regrettably it would not be possible for us to accommodate this particular request at the present time.

Right tone:

Hi Mark,

Thanks for thinking of us for this. Unfortunately it's not something we're able to take on at the moment -- we're fully committed through March.

If timing works, we'd be happy to look at it in April. Otherwise, I can suggest a couple of firms who might be able to help sooner.

Kind regards, [Your name]

Context Rules

Corporate clients: Match their formality but keep your clarity. "Dear [Name]" and "Yours sincerely" if they use it. Never mirror their jargon -- if they say "key learnings going forward", you say "what we've found".

Delivering bad news: Be direct but considerate. State the issue, explain briefly, offer the path forward. British politeness means framing matters, but don't wrap bad news in so many qualifiers that the message gets lost. One "apologies" is sufficient.

Quoting prices: Clear and confident. "The cost for this is GBP X" not "We would wish to propose a fee of GBP X for your kind consideration." Include what's covered. State VAT position (inclusive/exclusive) explicitly.

Saying no: Polite and brief. "Unfortunately" does the work -- you don't need three sentences of preamble. Give the reason, offer an alternative if possible.

Following up: Purposeful but not pushy. "Just checking in on this" works. "I trust this finds you well" is filler -- drop it. "Wanted to bring this back to the top of your inbox" is fine.

© 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/uk-business-english of jezweb/claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1260fa7

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Questions about Uk Business English

What does Uk Business English do?

British business English writing style for professional communications — polished, understated, EN-GB spelling (colour, organise, centre). Uk Business English is an agent skill from jezweb/claude-skills. British business English writing style for professional communications — polished, understated, EN-GB spelling (colour, organise, centre).

When should I use Uk Business English?

Uk Business English fits situations like: the user is writing for a British audience: emails; client communications; any business writing.

How do I install Uk Business English in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Uk Business English in Codex?

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

Can I use Uk 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 uk-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/uk-business-english, .gemini/skills/uk-business-english, .github/skills/uk-business-english and .opencode/skills/uk-business-english in your project.

What does Uk Business English need to run?

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

Does Uk 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 Uk 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 Uk Business English use?

Uk 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 Uk Business English use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.8k 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 Uk Business English?

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Who maintains Uk 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.