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title: "german-technical-writing"
description: "Natural German technical register for Jira comments and descriptions, internal German-language documentation, and team-chat messages"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/german-technical-writing
last-updated: 2026-09-22
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# german-technical-writing
Natural German technical register for Jira comments and descriptions, internal German-language documentation, and team-chat messages
- Slug: german-technical-writing
- Publisher: Netresearch DTT GmbH
- Repository: https://github.com/netresearch/german-technical-writing-skill
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 1.6.0
- License: (MIT AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Category (editorial): documentation
- Skills: 1 (german-technical-writing)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 5
- Repository created: 2026-04-24
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-20
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/german-technical-writing
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What german-technical-writing does, in the publisher's words

Natural German technical register for Jira comments and descriptions, internal German-language wiki/spec pages, and team-chat messages to German-speaking colleagues.

Catches literal English→German anglicisms (brechen, gefangen, returnen, triggern, failen) and substitutes the canonical technical lexicon (werfen, abfangen, zurückgeben, auslösen, fehlschlagen) while accepting ecosystem-standard Denglisch loanwords (der Commit, die Pipeline, die Exception).

This is an Agent Skill following the open standard originally developed by Anthropic and released for cross-platform use.

- ✅ Claude Code (Anthropic)
- ✅ Cursor
- ✅ GitHub Copilot
- ✅ Other skills-compatible AI agents
- Anti-pattern detection: ~60 false-friends catalogued: brechen, gefangen, returnen, failen, triggern, hitten, plus calqued idioms (am Ende des Tages, Low-hanging Fruit) and pseudo-anglicisms (Handy, Beamer)

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netresearch/german-technical-writing-skill/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- german-technical-writing: Use when writing German-language prose longer than one sentence for Jira tickets, internal German wiki/spec docs, or team-chat to German-speaking colleagues (Slack, Matrix, Teams). Invoke BEFORE composing. Covers anglicism verbs (failt, triggern, returnen), calqued collocations and idioms (blockier…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.