Command Explorer › style: — the reply's voice › plain
style:plain
Plain language: short, jargon-free, layman's terms.
In the style: domain
style:slang — The voice at its most informal — slang, contractions, fragments welcome; the facts stay exact.style:plain — Plain language: short, jargon-free, layman's terms.style:shop — Trade talk — the working vocabulary of the shop floor: direct, concrete, no polish.style:doctorate — Doctorate-level academic — the full scholarly register: precise terms, claims hedged where the evidence is hedged.style:candid — Say it straight — the honest read, unsoftened; disagreement and bad news delivered plainly.style:diplomatic — The same substance, tactfully framed — care taken where feelings or negotiations are in play.style:warm — Warm and personable — encouragement and humanity in the voice; the facts unchanged.style:dry — Dry and deadpan — flat affect and understatement; wit allowed, warmth withheld.style:clinical — Clinical and detached — neutral, precise, affect-free; the chart note, not the bedside manner.style:legal — Legal register — formal and precise: defined terms, obligations stated exactly.style:poetic — Poetic register — image, rhythm, and metaphor carry the meaning; the beauty is part of the point.style:kid — For a young reader — simple words, short sentences, wonder intact; never condescending, never scary.style:casual — The everyday default voice — natural, unforced, mid-register. The anchor the other voices depart from; style:off returns here.What it does
The reply in short, jargon-free, layman's terms. Plain is a register, not a length — it does not thin the content.
The registry's own words: Plain language: short, jargon-free, layman's terms. Bare form colors this reply; 'on' makes it sticky until 'off'.
Fire it — usage examples
“Explain the mortgage penalty.
style:plain”→ short sentences, everyday words, any technical term glossed on the spot.
style:plain onat the start of a session→ everything after arrives in plain words until you clear it.
Said aloud: “Lingo, reply plain — what's a deductible, exactly?”
→ the answer in everyday words.
Spoken. Inside a marked span opened by the wake word “Lingo”, the spoken form is “reply plain” (also “simple”). Dictated directives fire deliberately, never by accident.
What the agent actually does
A register discipline on the composition — plus, with on, the same state write and confirmation as any mode: “plain language on” is recorded in the agent's memory of you and persists across sessions.
The baseline procedure, its edge cases, and this directive's full guide live in the implementation guide: implementation/IMPLEMENTATION.md#cmd-style-plain ↗.
When the host can't
No host capability required; always executable.
Conformance — “done when”
The reply is in plain register, and any state change is persisted and confirmed.
Persistence class: mode-state. Execution report in the reply: required. A user can test any of this by hand — fire the directive, then check the result against the store, the schedule, or the reply itself.