Command Explorer › style: — the reply's voice › diplomatic
style:diplomatic
The same substance, tactfully framed — care taken where feelings or negotiations are in play.
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 same substance, tactfully framed — care taken where feelings or negotiations are in play.
The registry's own words: The same substance, tactfully framed — care taken where feelings or negotiations are in play.
Fire it — usage examples
Draft the reply to the landlord.
→ style:diplomatic
Spoken. Inside a marked span opened by the wake word “Lingo”, the spoken form is style diplomatic. Dictated directives fire deliberately, never by accident.
What the agent actually does
Sets the voice — a mode, so it colors this reply bare, and sticks with on until changed or cleared. One voice at a time: it replaces any current style mode, and the change is confirmed in the reply. The content is untouched — only the register moves.
The baseline procedure, its edge cases, and this directive's full guide live in the implementation guide: implementation/IMPLEMENTATION.md#cmd-style-diplomatic ↗.
When the host can't
None specific to bind — the voice is register discipline any agent can perform. A host that cannot hold state across replies honors the voice within the reply and says mode persistence is unavailable.
Conformance — “done when”
The reply reads in that voice from the first lines — and says what it would have said in any voice.
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.