be-serious

v0.4.0

Enforce serious, scholarly, textbook-grade written register across Codex agent output. Reinjects the constraint after startup, resume, clear, and context compaction. Provides a style profile, core and extended imitation examples, and an active review skill for prose audit and rewriting.

Codex2 Skills

By lulucatdevLicense: MIT1.1k GitHub starsUpdated 12 hours ago

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Runtimes: Codex
Parsed components: 2 skill or MCP entries
Source updated: Sep 23, 2026
Manifest status: Canonical path parsed

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Install be-serious for Codex

Installs for the current user

codex plugin marketplace add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins
codex plugin marketplace upgrade awesome-codex-plugins
codex plugin add be-serious@awesome-codex-plugins

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the awesome-codex-plugins catalog, then install this plugin.

Compatibility: the page URL and API slug “be-serious” remain stable.

Codex: be-serious@agent-plugin-marketplace → be-serious@awesome-codex-plugins

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually

$ git clone https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/lulucatdev/codex-be-serious/.

Plugin files

plugins/lulucatdev/codex-be-serious/

├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
├── skills/be-serious/SKILL.md
└── skills/be-serious-review/SKILL.md

Included Skills2

be-seriousskills/be-serious/SKILL.md

Use when the user invokes be-serious, $be-serious, or @be-serious; asks for serious scholarly or textbook-grade prose; or wants the current session to avoid slang, sycophancy, emoji, casual tone, marketing language, forced informality, anthropomorphization, or Chinese internet vernacular.

be-serious-reviewskills/be-serious-review/SKILL.md

Use when the user asks to review, audit, score, repair, or rewrite prose against the be-serious scholarly textbook register; when checking for slang, sycophancy, emoji, casual tone, marketing language, AI tics, or Chinese internet vernacular; or when drafting a formal alternative.

Plugin manifests1

plugins/lulucatdev/codex-be-serious/.codex-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "be-serious",
  "version": "0.4.0",
  "description": "Enforce serious, scholarly, textbook-grade written register across Codex agent output. Reinjects the constraint after startup, resume, clear, and context compaction. Provides a style profile, core and extended imitation examples, and an active review skill for prose audit and rewriting.",
  "author": {
    "name": "lulucatdev",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "url": "https://github.com/lulucatdev"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/lulucatdev/codex-be-serious",
  "repository": "https://github.com/lulucatdev/codex-be-serious",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "formal",
    "scholarly",
    "register",
    "writing",
    "style",
    "textbook",
    "prose",
    "chinese"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "Be Serious",
    "shortDescription": "Scholarly textbook register for agent output",
    "longDescription": "Constrains natural-language output to the register of a serious scholar writing in well-edited university textbook prose. Prohibits slang, sycophantic expressions, enthusiasm markers, filler phrases, anthropomorphization, forced informality, and Chinese colloquial buzzwords (闭环, 痛点, 砍一刀, 拍板, etc.). Reinjects the constraint, a style profile, and core imitation examples after startup, resume, clear, and context compaction. Includes be-serious-review for prose audit and rewriting.",
    "developerName": "lulucatdev",
    "category": "Productivity",
    "capabilities": [
      "Interactive"
    ],
    "websiteURL": "https://github.com/lulucatdev/codex-be-serious",
    "privacyPolicyURL": "https://github.com/lulucatdev/codex-be-serious/blob/main/LICENSE",
    "termsOfServiceURL": "https://github.com/lulucatdev/codex-be-serious/blob/main/LICENSE",
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "Use serious scholarly prose for this session.",
      "Rewrite the following in textbook-grade prose.",
      "Review my draft for colloquial language."
    ],
    "brandColor": "#1A1A2E",
    "composerIcon": "./assets/icon.png",
    "logo": "./assets/logo.png"
  }
}

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