---
title: "prose-discipline"
description: "An engineering prose standard for agent-written text: short active sentences, plain words, comments that explain why, and labelled review comments."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/prose-discipline
last-updated: 2026-10-24
---

# prose-discipline
An engineering prose standard for agent-written text: short active sentences, plain words, comments that explain why, and labelled review comments.
- Slug: prose-discipline
- Publisher: Alexander Kurganov
- Repository: https://github.com/Akurganow/ai-plugins
- Manifest: plugins/prose-discipline/plugin.json
- Version: 2.0.3
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (house-style)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 2
- Repository created: 2026-08-22
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-20
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/prose-discipline
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What prose-discipline does, in the publisher's words

An engineering prose standard for everything an agent writes: user replies, prose, code comments, review comments, commit messages, change descriptions, error messages, and agent instructions.

Part of the ai-plugins marketplace.

Five layers, each a rule a reader can check rather than a preference:

- Structure: a 25-word sentence ceiling, one action per sentence or step, active voice, no noun stacks, semicolons split into sentences.
- Vocabulary: plain verbs, a substitution table, no significance inflation, and a domain-term contract that keeps accessible, accept, validate, rotate and robust where they name a technical property.
- Comment hygiene: no narrator comments, no step markers, no ASCII dividers, no committed uncertainty. Comments explain why; names explain what.
- Artifact formats: Conventional Comments labels on review feedback; change descriptions as what / why / verification; three-part error messages; single-intent instruction steps. A repository's own template outranks these formats.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Akurganow/ai-plugins/HEAD/plugins/prose-discipline/README.md