Dejargonify
by Jack Cheng, senior editor
Oct 7, 2026
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About
Reviews prose for jargon, wordiness, and flow. Returns a list of suggested edits, rather than rewriting the draft.
Use it when
You're writing for people outside your field- Your draft is full of acronyms or business clichés
Example output
From a fictional team-process update. Four suggested edits in source order.
Original wording Suggested edit
“To operationalize the new intake pathway”
“To start using the new request process.”
“To start using the new request process.”“socialize the SLA with cross-functional stakeholders”“Share the promised response times with the teams involved.” Define “service-level agreement” if the document matters.
“Share the promised response times with the teams involved.” Define “service-level agreement” if the document matters.“Escalations will be triaged in a weekly sync”“We’ll decide which requests need extra attention in a weekly meeting.” Say separately how requests that cannot wait a week are handled.
“We’ll decide which requests need extra attention in a weekly meeting.” Say separately how requests that cannot wait a week are handled.“A retry is idempotent”Keep the precise term for engineers, but explain it: “Sending the same request twice still creates only one order.”
Keep the precise term for engineers, but explain it: “Sending the same request twice still creates only one order.”
Skill.md
Review the target text without changing its meaning, factual claims, structure, or voice more than necessary.
Three-pass review
- Remove jargon. Find technical terms, insider language, abstractions, and unnecessarily formal wording. Suggest familiar, non-technical alternatives that remain accurate. Keep a specialized term when replacing it would lose important meaning; explain it plainly instead.
- Tighten. Remove repetition, throat-clearing, filler, needless qualifiers, and wordy constructions. Prefer direct sentences and specific verbs. Preserve necessary context and nuance.
- Read for flow. Read the entire text as a whole. Look for awkward transitions, uneven pacing, unclear references, repeated ideas, and sentences or paragraphs that arrive in the wrong order. Suggest only refinements that materially improve the reading experience.
Output
Combine the useful findings from all three passes into one final bulleted list. Do not organize the response into separate pass-by-pass sections.
For each suggested edit:
- Quote the relevant original wording briefly.
- Give the proposed replacement or describe the structural change.
- Add a concise reason when the benefit is not self-evident.
Order the bullets as the issues appear in the target text. Omit passages that do not need revision. If nothing needs changing, say so plainly instead of inventing edits.