How to use Speak Like You Eat: what you can do with it

4 use cases

• Read long Pi answers faster with the ELI5 tab

  Get a short ELI5 rewrite under any finished Pi answer and switch tabs to compare.

  • REPO wtfzambo/speak-like-you-eat
  • Personal productivity
  • Intermediate
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  Using the SLYE repo (wtfzambo/speak-like-you-eat), install the package in Pi and run /slye on the latest completed assistant response in <target project>. Expected output: an ELI5 card under the original answer that starts with the conclusion. Verify that the original response text is unchanged.

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• Turn on automatic rewriting for long Pi answers

  Let SLYE rewrite every eligible finished answer without running /slye each time.

  • REPO wtfzambo/speak-like-you-eat
  • Personal productivity
  • Intermediate
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  In the SLYE repo (wtfzambo/speak-like-you-eat), enable automatic rewriting in Pi with /slye on and then complete a long answer in <target project>. Expected output: a rewrite card appears only for answers with at least 200 non-whitespace prose characters outside fenced code. Verify that a short answer gets no automatic card.

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• Add plain-language rewrites to Oh My Pi sessions

  Install SLYE as an OMP plugin to get a Light rewrite under finished answers.

  • REPO wtfzambo/speak-like-you-eat
  • Personal productivity
  • Intermediate
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  Install the SLYE repo (wtfzambo/speak-like-you-eat) as an Oh My Pi plugin with `omp plugin install speak-like-you-eat`, then run /slye on the latest answer in <target session>. Expected output: a Light rewrite card below the original. Verify that the card has no ELI5 tab, since OMP shows only the Light version.

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• Set a custom Light rewrite prompt for your team

  Replace the built-in Light prompt with your own slye-prompt.md file.

  • REPO wtfzambo/speak-like-you-eat
  • Personal productivity
  • Advanced
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  Using the SLYE repo (wtfzambo/speak-like-you-eat), follow its custom system prompt runbook to write a slye-prompt.md for <target style guide>. Expected output: a Light rewrite that follows that guide. Verify that the Light output reflects the custom instructions and that the ELI5 prompt is not replaced.

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Quick start with Speak Like You Eat

1. Check you have what it needs: Pi (current release) or Oh My Pi (OMP) installed; A model available and authenticated in the host so SLYE can call it; A terminal to run the install command.
2. Open wtfzambo/speak-like-you-eat on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Run pi install npm:speak-like-you-eat to make SLYE available to all projects, or pi install -l npm:speak-like-you-eat for the current project only.
4. Wait until Pi finishes an answer, then run /slye.
5. Read the ELI5 tab, which is active by default on the new card.
6. Press ctrl+\ in any mode, or click a tab in fullscreen mode, to switch to the Light tab.

These steps come from our top use case, Read long Pi answers faster with the ELI5 tab, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for wtfzambo/speak-like-you-eat

claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp

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About this repo

• Who it is forWritten for Pi or OMP users who get long AI answers and want the main point, the actions, and the open decisions quickly.
• Why it is hot114 stars, launched 70 days ago
• LanguageTypeScript
• Sourcegithub.com/wtfzambo/speak-like-you-eat · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• Pi (current release) or Oh My Pi (OMP) installed
• A model available and authenticated in the host so SLYE can call it
• A terminal to run the install command
• Node 24+ only if you plan to develop or test the repo itself

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