Write the sentence a beginner can follow
Technical writing gets clearer when you stop optimizing for people who already know the answer.
It's easy to write a sentence that's technically correct and still useless to the person reading it. The usual cause isn't a lack of knowledge — it's writing for the reader you wish you had instead of the one you actually have.
A sentence like "configure the adapter to expose the resolved context" is accurate. It's also meaningless to someone encountering the system for the first time. The fix usually isn't more words — it's naming the concrete thing before the abstract one.
A small rewrite
Configure the adapter to expose the resolved context.
becomes:
Add a
getContext()function that returns the current user's settings, and pass it to the adapter when you create it.
Same idea, but now it names the function, the return value, and when to call it. Nothing about the second version is less precise — it's just precise about things a reader can act on.