ia-writing SKILL.md skillA
ia-writing from iliaal/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-writing@git:20261019.b33b11aPins git:20261019.b33b11a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- iliaal/whetstone
- Path
plugins/whetstone/skills/ia-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 11
- Latest version
- git:20261019.b33b11a, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 30, 2026
- Size
- 5,971 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- MIT
Prose editing, rewriting, and humanizing text for natural tone, or auditing a draft for AI tells without rewriting. Use when asked to write, rewrite, edit, humanize, proofread, fix tone, remove AI language, or check whether writing reads as AI. For copy, docs, blog posts, emails, or PRs.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Human writing
Edit human-facing prose while preserving meaning, factual accuracy, and the writer's voice. User instructions and the intended audience outrank these style preferences. Editing a draft does not authorize posting it.
## Modes
- **Edit** (default): produce corrected text. Add a changelog only when the caller asks for one; place it outside the returned text, never inside a delivered artifact such as a commit body, PR description, or comment.
- **Proofread or point edit**: for "proofread", "fix grammar", or "check this", correct only clear errors (grammar, spelling, punctuation, plainly unnatural phrasing) and keep the English variety (British or American). An em dash is a style choice, not an error; leave it unless the request asks for style edits. When the request names a span ("fix this headline", "tighten paragraph two"), change only that span plus the minimum around it needed to read cleanly, and return only the changed text. Skip the style procedure and the whole-draft sweep. Keep a change only when it is measurably better, not merely different. Leave a passage unchanged and flag it when fixing it requires guessing the intended meaning. Treat instructions…
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-writing@sha256:f64c33bb515c6380The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.b33b11a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2bf36sjme2tuoroe)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 11 versions of this file, between Jul 30, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261019.b33b11a latest | 2026-10-19 | b33b11a | 5,971 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.2df60b8 | 2026-10-19 | 2df60b8 | 5,820 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261011.2911a26 | 2026-10-11 | 2911a26 | 4,989 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.0611f65 | 2026-09-24 | 0611f65 | 4,892 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.1fe6908 | 2026-09-23 | 1fe6908 | 4,864 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.fc10acd | 2026-09-20 | fc10acd | 4,866 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.228ec83 | 2026-09-07 | 228ec83 | 4,644 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.80bd386 | 2026-09-02 | 80bd386 | 14,948 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.19890d2 | 2026-08-19 | 19890d2 | 14,346 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.c72ab07 | 2026-08-12 | c72ab07 | 13,442 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260730.099aa5f | 2026-07-30 | 099aa5f | 13,164 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5971 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
iliaal/whetstone · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2bf36sjme2tuoroe GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iliaal/whetstone/ia-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f64c33bb515c6380c8cece0c512090e29a20d3b08ba13b913ca02bb33b967fb7
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.