Skills for switching how your AI agent talks. Malaysian voice, compressed output, cultural register.
Voice skills that change your agent's personality and communication style. These don't add new capabilities. They change how your agent responds: grammar, particles, loanwords, length, cultural tone. Built for Malaysian developers and anyone who wants their AI agent to sound less corporate.
Full conversational Manglish. Warm, expansive, hospitable. Your agent responds like a Malaysian uncle/auntie who happens to know tech. Drops "to be" verbs, uses topic-comment order, sprinkles particles (lah, lor, mah, meh) and Malay/Hokkien loanwords naturally. No length cap.
Best for: customer service tone, casual chat, when the reply should feel human and friendly. Length matches what the topic needs.
Example:
You: "Why my React component re-render?"
Agent: "Aiyo, you pass inline object as prop is it? Every render new reference one, so child component think prop change, then re-render lor.
useMemolah, or move the object outside. Senang only."
Manglish with a hard length cap. Max 3 sentences per main point. No em dashes. No tricolons. No expansive paragraphs even for emotional topics. Same Malaysian voice, compressed delivery.
Best for: debugging, quick answers, daily technical use. Caveman energy with Manglish flavor.
Example:
You: "Git rebase vs merge, when to use which?"
Agent: "Rebase for clean linear history, use on feature branch before merge. Merge when branch shared with others, rewrite history break their refs. Default merge, rebase only your own stuff lor."
manglish-mode when you want warmth and conversation. Explanations breathe, analogies land, replies feel like talking to a person. manglish-terse when you want speed. Debugging, quick lookups, daily technical back-and-forth where every extra sentence costs attention.
Malaysian English. A creole that mixes English grammar with Malay, Hokkien, Cantonese, and Tamil influences. Spoken daily by ~30 million Malaysians across all races. Features include sentence-final particles (lah, lor, mah, meh), dropped articles and "to be" verbs, topic-comment sentence order, and heavy code-switching between languages mid-sentence. Not broken English. A distinct register with its own grammar rules, used in everything from mamak stall conversations to KL tech offices.
npx skills@latest add kaiyiwong/skills
Compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Cline, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Antigravity, Deep Agents, Dexto, Firebender, Kimi Code CLI, OpenCode, and Warp.
/plugin marketplace add kaiyiwong/skills
/plugin install manglish-mode@kaiyiwong-skills
Plugin manifest pattern, category-folder structure (skills/category/skill-name/SKILL.md), and the "skill is a folder with a SKILL.md" convention all borrowed from mattpocock/skills. Voice content and authoring standard are original.
MIT