{"slug": "economist-style-plugins-for-claude-code", "title": "Economist Style Plugins for Claude Code", "summary": "Tom Dickson released Economist Style Guide Plugins for Claude Code, applying The Economist's editorial standards to improve clarity, precision, brevity, and dialect consistency in written content. The plugin, available via the Claude Code marketplace, identifies issues like passive voice, weasel words, and redundancy, and suggests specific improvements.", "body_md": "Claude Code plugins for applying professional editorial standards to your writing.\n\nApplies The Economist style guide principles to written content:\n\n**Clarity**: Active voice, simple words, direct statements** Precision**: Specific facts over vague claims, weasel word detection** Brevity**: Concise over verbose, redundancy removal** Dialect-aware**: Matches document's existing conventions (British, American, etc.)\n\nPerfect for:\n\n- Technical documentation\n- Blog posts and articles\n- Marketing copy\n- Code comments and README files\n- Any professional writing\n\n```\n# In Claude Code\n/plugin marketplace add TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin\n/plugin install economist-style@economist-style-guide-plugin\n```\n\nThe plugin activates automatically when editing text:\n\n```\nReview this document for clarity and precision\n```\n\nClaude will identify issues and suggest improvements following The Economist's editorial standards.\n\n✓ **Clarity issues**: Passive voice, jargon, complexity\n\n✓ **Precision problems**: Weasel words (\"many\", \"significant\"), vague claims\n\n✓ **Wordiness**: Fillers, redundancies, verbose expressions\n\n✓ **Consistency**: Dialect matching, style coherence\n\n✓ **Common errors**: Affect/effect, less/fewer, that/which\n\n**Before**:\n\n```\nThe data was analyzed and it was found that there were \nsignificant issues affecting many users.\n```\n\n**After**:\n\n```\nAnalysis revealed three critical issues affecting 847 users (23%).\n```\n\nChanges: Active voice, removed vagueness, added specifics.\n\n**Progressive disclosure**: Loads detailed rules only when needed** Dialect-aware**: Respects existing conventions (doesn't force British or American)** Context-sensitive**: Understands markdown, HTML, code documentation** Zero configuration**: Works immediately after installation\n\nSee [economist-style/README.md](/TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin/blob/main/economist-style/README.md) for detailed documentation.\n\nContributions welcome! Areas of interest:\n\n- Additional style rules and patterns\n- Industry-specific guides (technical, financial, academic)\n- New dialect conventions\n- Documentation improvements\n\nMIT License - See [LICENSE](/TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin/blob/main/LICENSE) for details.\n\nTom Dickson\n\n- Issues:\n[GitHub Issues](https://github.com/TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin/issues) - Documentation:\n[economist-style/README.md](/TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin/blob/main/economist-style/README.md) - Claude Code Docs:\n[https://code.claude.com/docs](https://code.claude.com/docs)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/economist-style-plugins-for-claude-code", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin", "published_at": "2026-07-31 00:11:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-31 00:22:17.449947+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Tom Dickson", "The Economist", "Claude Code"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/economist-style-plugins-for-claude-code", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/economist-style-plugins-for-claude-code.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/economist-style-plugins-for-claude-code.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/economist-style-plugins-for-claude-code.jsonld"}}