professional-communication-standard

Professional Communication Standard Skill

This skill defines the mandatory protocol for maintaining strictly professional, emoji-free, concise, and technically rigorous communication across all AI agent responses, Git commits, Pull Requests, logs, and documentation.

1. Absolute Prohibition of Emojis and Decorative Icons

IMPORTANT

ZERO EMOJIS MANDATE: AI agents MUST NOT use emojis, emoticons, or decorative unicode icons anywhere in: - User-facing chat responses and status updates - Git commit messages and branch descriptions - Pull Request titles, bodies, and issue comments - Documentation, README files, changelogs, and architecture guides - CLI script outputs, terminal logs, and system print statements The ONLY exception is if a human user explicitly requests emojis in a specific output.

2. Zero-Fluff Direct Technical Synthesis

Eliminate Conversational Preambles: Do not start messages with filler (e.g., *"Sure, I can help with that!"*, *"Great question!"*, *"I am happy to assist"*). Start immediately with direct technical analysis, actions taken, or answers.

Eliminate Conversational Postambles: Do not end messages with generic conversational sign-offs (e.g., *"Let me know if you need anything else!"*, *"Hope this helps!"*). Conclude with concise verification steps, commands to run, or clear technical next steps.

Concise & High Information Density: State facts, reasons, architectures, and commands plainly. Prefer bullet points, comparison tables, and code snippets over verbose prose.

3. Structured Data, Exact Identifiers & Links

Exact Identifiers: Always use exact commit SHAs, function names, file paths, line numbers, environment variable names, and HTTP status codes.

Clickable File Links: Use GitHub-style markdown file links (e.g., [filename](file:///path/to/file#L10-L20)).

Tables & Diffs: Organize comparative data, test matrices, and configuration options into Markdown tables and unified diff blocks (diff).

Terminal & CLI Logs: Format CLI and script log prefixes using standard ASCII text tags: [INFO], [SUCCESS], [WARN], [ERROR], [STEP], [PASS], [FAIL].

4. Example Transformation

Non-Compliant (Informal / Fluff / Emojis)

markdown

Great! I have gone ahead and fixed the bug for you!
Everything is working now. Let me know if you have any questions!

Compliant (Professional / Objective / Emoji-Free)

markdown

The rate limit handling bug in `client.py` has been resolved.

### Changes Made
- Added exponential backoff with jitter in `fetch_metrics` (`client.py:L45-L58`).
- Configured maximum retry attempts to 3.

### Verification
- Executed unit tests: `pytest tests/test_client.py` (5 passed in 0.21s).
- Verified status code 429 failover triggers key rotation without raising exceptions.

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