An agent skill that rewrites competent workplace writing into terse, lowercase, fragment-heavy engineering communication.
Dumbify is designed for GitHub PR descriptions and review comments, Asana tasks, Slack / Teams, incident notes, and similar internal work communication.
The core idea:
dumbify does not make the thinking dumber. it makes the writing look dumber.
The target is not fake Gen-Z slang. It is compressed engineering communication: fewer words, less punctuation, lowercase, fragments, direct statements, preserved technical precision.
/plugin marketplace add smartwatermelon/dumbify
/plugin install dumbify@dumbify
Once installed, invoke it as /dumbify:dumbify.
The runtime artifact is SKILL.md.
mkdir -p .claude/skills/dumbify
cp SKILL.md .claude/skills/dumbify/mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/dumbify
cp SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/dumbify/Copy SKILL.md into the location used by the target tool for Markdown-based skills, or provide its contents as system/developer instructions.
Ask for it directly:
Dumbify this: [paste text]
Or point it at a file when the harness supports file-aware skills.
Input
I think we should probably update the Terraform module before merging this because the current version has a race condition during deployment.
Output
update terraform module before merge. current version races during deploy
Input
Thanks for catching this. I agree that the caller already validates the input, so I don't think we need to handle this case here.
Output
yep caller already validates this. don't need handle here
Input
Would you mind taking a look at the intermittent deployment failures and checking whether they're related to the recent cache changes?
Output
can you check intermittent deploy failures + cache changes
Default is level 2. The skill supports levels 1–4, with higher levels producing increasingly compressed output.
Level 3 or 4 should be explicitly requested.
Dumbify is the last of three sibling skills that compose into one path from "review this PR" to a posted comment that reads like a person wrote it:
pr-review → personify → dumbify
(find it) (de-AI it) (compress it)
- pr-review does the review itself: traces claims against the repo, triages findings down to the one that matters, and stages a pending GitHub review rather than posting it.
- personify strips AI-writing
tells from the draft and, given a
VOICE.md, makes it sound like a specific person instead of a generically clean one. - Dumbify compresses the register the rest of the way.
Personify and dumbify overlap, and it's worth being clear about where. Personify's work register already does lowercase starts, fragments, contractions, and hedge-cutting, so for most work writing personify alone is enough and dumbify adds nothing. Reach for dumbify when you want the register pushed past what personify does: level 2 is roughly where personify's work register lands, and levels 3–4 go further than personify ever will. Run it after personify, not before — personify's de-abstraction pass wants the actor and the full sentence present to work on, and dumbify deletes exactly those.
Each skill stands alone. pr-review runs without either; personify runs without dumbify; dumbify runs on any text at all.
Dumbify is not advertised as a watermark-removal mechanism. Any change to watermark detectability is an empirical property of the watermarking system and must be tested rather than assumed.
MIT. See LICENSE.