writing SKILL.md skillA
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/writing@git:20260227.215f429Pins git:20260227.215f429 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- iliaal/whetstone
- Path
distillery/generated-skills/writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260227.215f429, committed Feb 27, 2026
- Size
- 3,807 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- MIT
Prose editing, rewriting, and humanizing text for natural tone. Use when asked to "write", "rewrite", "edit", "humanize", "improve text", "fix the tone", "remove AI language", "proofread", or when writing copy, docs, blog posts, articles, or emails.
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
## Core Principles
- **Active voice**: "We shipped the fix" not "The fix was shipped"
- **Specific over vague**: "Cut reporting from 4 hours to 15 minutes" not "Save time"
- **Simple words**: "Use" not "utilize", "help" not "facilitate", "start" not "initiate"
- **Positive form**: Say what it is, not what it isn't — "Ignore" not "Do not pay attention to"
- **Confident**: Cut "almost", "very", "really", "quite", "arguably"
- **Concrete**: Name the thing, state the number, cite the source
- **Omit needless words**: "Because" not "due to the fact that"; "Now" not "at this point in time"; "Can" not "has the ability to"
- **Use contractions**: "don't", "won't", "it's", "they're" — uncontracted forms are a major AI tell
## AI Patterns — Kill on Sight
**Vocabulary**: delve, crucial, pivotal, foster, leverage, tapestry, testament, underscore, vibrant, landscape (abstract), interplay, multifaceted, enhance, enduring, garner, showcase, Additionally, seamless, robust, cutting-edge, groundbreaking, nestled, renowned
**Structural tells**:
- Rule of three: forced triads ("streamline, optimize, and enhance")
- Negative parallelism: "It's not just X — it's Y"
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/writing@sha256:b269f001bc8b40e6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260227.215f429, 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_5a47ievg7m56pfxk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Feb 27, 2026.
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 (3807 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_5a47ievg7m56pfxk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iliaal/whetstone/writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b269f001bc8b40e6198793da6de68c3d6af58a955364a1e4a4c3b46dfb483f93
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.
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