Fluent in developer,clear in the steering update
Product owners and BAs spend half their day translating: engineering explains the outage in migrations and replica lag, and the stakeholders upstairs need to know what broke, who is affected, and when it's fixed. Khint makes that translation one keystroke: select the technical explanation wherever it landed, run a saved AI action, and paste back a version your steering committee actually reads.
Accurate, but only
to the people who wrote it
The dev's comment is precise and complete, and forwarding it as-is would be a mistake: stakeholders latch onto the scariest word in it, or glaze over and ask you to explain it anyway. So you rewrite it by hand, under time pressure, hoping you kept the meaning while dropping the mechanics. That rewrite is the risky part: soften too much and you have over-promised; keep too much and the update raises more questions than it answers. Khint puts that judgment into a prompt you refine once, instead of a rewrite you improvise every time: Agentshold your “explain for stakeholders” action behind one shortcut, Memorykeeps the incident's context riding along so “the migration” resolves to the right one, and Capture handles the detail that arrives as a screenshot instead of text.
From dev comment to steering-ready, step by step
An incident morning: one technical thread, three audiences waiting for their version of it.
Save an “Explain for stakeholders” Action once
In the Action editor, describe the job in one line: rewrite technical explanations for a business audience, keep what changed, who is affected and when, drop the implementation detail. Press Generate and Khint drafts the prompt; Improve tightens it later as you learn what your stakeholders trip on. Give it a shortcut if you use it daily.
Open a session for the incident or the release
Start a Memorysession named for what is happening: “Checkout incident” or “May release”. With Atlassian connected on the MCP page, run Pull issue from the palette to bring the ticket into the session. Khint keeps a compact running summary of what you pulled and ran, and Actions that opted in see it, so the translation knows which migration and which release you mean.
Select the jargon where it lives
The dev's comment lands in the ticket: rollbacks, backfills, replica lag. Select it right there in Jira, in Slack, or in the email, hit Cmd+Shift+K, and run your Action. The stakeholder-ready version is pasted back where your cursor was. You never left the page, and the original comment stays untouched below your reply.
Capture the ones that arrive as pixels
Half the technical detail a PO relays was never text: an error dialog, a monitoring graph, a terminal in a screen-share. From the same palette, Capture gives you two moves: Extract text reads a region of the screen straight to your clipboard, and Capture & ask opens a chat about the screenshot, so you can ask what the error actually means before you explain it to anyone else.
Send it where stakeholders read
The translated paragraph is normal text on your clipboard or already pasted into your draft, so it drops straight into the steering email, the status page, or the comment thread. When the update is a whole message rather than a paragraph, the same selection habit feeds stakeholder update emails and status reports.
Same facts, different reader
What a saved “Explain for stakeholders” Action might make of a real deploy comment. The tone and the rules live in your prompt.
Rollback isn't clean: the 0034 migration already backfilled orders, so reverting the deploy leaves the new nullable column orphaned. Shipping a hotfix behind the flag instead; with replica lag, don't expect it visible for ~15 min after merge.
We can't simply undo yesterday's release, because the database has already moved to the new format. Instead, the team is shipping a targeted fix. Once it goes live, allow up to 15 minutes before the correction is visible to users. Checkout keeps working throughout, and no data has been lost.
Notice what survived: the fact that a rollback is off the table, the fifteen minutes, the reassurance about checkout and data. What disappeared is the vocabulary that only helps the people who already understand it. That editorial line is exactly what your prompt encodes, and it is yours: a regulated team can require a “customer impact” sentence in every translation, a support lead can keep one Action tuned for agents and another for the status page, and Improve refines the wording rules as you see real outputs.
Why not just paste it into a chatbot?
You can, and on a calm day it works. On an incident morning it means a browser tab, a re-typed explanation of who the update is for, and a model that has no idea which release or which migration your team is talking about. Khint removes each of those: the audience framing is saved in the Action, the context comes from the Memory session you have been pulling tickets into, and the whole exchange happens in the app where the jargon appeared, selection in, paste back out. The habit also composes with the rest of the toolkit: error dialogs become tickets in capture an error message to a ticket, and the terms you keep re-explaining deserve a permanent home via a living business glossary.
Common questions
Do I have to write the translation prompt myself?
No. In the Action editor on the Agents page, type a one-line description like "rewrite technical explanations in plain English for business stakeholders, keep the impact and the dates, drop the implementation detail" and press Generate: Khint drafts the full prompt for you. Later, when you notice the output keeps a term your steering committee stumbles on, press Improve and tell it so; the prompt is refined in place. The audience is part of the prompt, so you can keep two Actions side by side: one for executives, one for support agents.
Does it work inside Jira, Slack, or my email client?
Yes, anywhere you can select text. Khint is a menu-bar app: select the developer's comment in Jira, the thread in Slack, or the paragraph in an email draft, hit Cmd+Shift+K, and run your saved Action. The plain-English version is pasted back right where you were working. There is no Khint window to switch to and nothing to copy between apps.
What if the technical detail is a screenshot, an error dialog, or a dashboard?
Use Capture from the same palette. Extract text draws a region over the screen, reads the text out of it, and puts it on your clipboard, ready for your translation Action. Capture & ask goes further: it opens a small chat about the captured image, so you can ask "what does this error mean for the release?" and follow up with more questions about the same screenshot.
Is the technical content I select shared anywhere?
An Action only ever sees the text you selected, plus, if you opted in for that Action, the compacted summary of your active Memory session. Memory sessions live in a local database on your machine, and the input and output text of your history stay local too. Each Action also has an opt-in redaction setting that replaces emails, phone numbers, and similar personal data with placeholders before the text is sent to the model.
Be the person both sides understand
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