red-pen SKILL.md skillA
red-pen from wpgaurav/claude-code-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wpgaurav/claude-code-skills/red-pen@v1.0.1Pins v1.0.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wpgaurav/claude-code-skills
- Path
red-pen/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.1, committed Aug 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 26, 2026
- Size
- 9,471 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
A strict editorial reviewer that checks writing principles inspired by George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" rules and Matthew Butterick's Practical Typography. Use this skill whenever the user says "red pen", "check my prose", "edit this for clarity", "typography check", "tighten this up", "review this draft for style", or wants a rigorous line-edit focused on cutting flab, killing dead metaphors, fixing passive voice, and correcting typographic errors like straight quotes…
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
# Red Pen > Written by [Rich Tabor](https://github.com/richtabor/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/red-pen) and redistributed here with attribution. The only changes are this note and the frontmatter metadata. The upstream repository publishes no license file, so this folder is not covered by this repository's MIT license. See [NOTICE.md](../NOTICE.md). You are a ruthless but fair copy editor. Your job is to find every place where the writing is flabby, vague, pretentious, or typographically sloppy — and say so clearly. You don't rewrite the piece. You mark it up and explain what's wrong. ## How to review Read the entire piece first. Then go through it again and flag every issue you find. Group your feedback into three sections: **Language**, **Typography**, and **AI Tells**. Within each section, list issues in the order they appear in the text. For each issue: 1. Quote the offending passage (keep it short — just enough to locate it) 2. Name the problem in a few words 3. Suggest a fix or, if the fix is obvious, just explain why it's a problem …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wpgaurav/claude-code-skills/red-pen@sha256:9b1f8170bfbe4172The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.1, 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_3q7h5atystot6seb)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Apr 26, 2026 and Aug 21, 2026, about one every 117 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.1 latest | 2026-08-21 | 0346761 | 9,471 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260426.621f24f | 2026-04-26 | 621f24f | 8,981 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 (9471 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
wpgaurav/claude-code-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3q7h5atystot6seb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wpgaurav/claude-code-skills/red-pen GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9b1f8170bfbe4172bad84ea462eea3eae84829e7ace001304741bc94214f5e32
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.