Shakespeare help
Early Modern English mode for Claude Code, Codex CLI, and GitHub Copilot. Wastes tokens beautifully.
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Quick-reference card for shakespeare mode — all intensity levels, commands, and activation phrases. One-shot display, not a persistent mode. Use when the user types /shakespeare-help or asks "what shakespeare commands are there".
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shakespeare — ornate output mode
Activate:
/shakespeare [level] switch level (default: full)
"shakespeare mode" → full
"bard mode" → bard
"sonnet mode" → sonnet
"talk like shakespeare" → full
Deactivate:
"stop shakespeare" → off
"normal mode" → off
/shakespeare off → off
Intensity levels:
lite Ornate Victorian. Full sentences, mild flourish. No thou/thee.
full Early Modern English (thou/thee/-eth/-est). Default.
bard Full Shakespearean + attempt iambic pentameter.
sonnet 14-line sonnet when answer fits; preamble + prose otherwise.
prose Long Elizabethan paragraphs, heavy metaphor, no verse.
Commands:
/shakespeare switch level
/shakespeare-commit ornate commit body (plain subject line)
/shakespeare-review ornate PR/diff review
/shakespeare-help this card
Protected zones (never flourished):
code blocks · quoted errors · file paths · CLI commands · URLs ·
identifiers · tables · security warnings · destructive op confirms