clear-writing SKILL.md skillA
clear-writing from eltmon/overdeck is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add eltmon/overdeck/clear-writing@git:20260522.817c2c7Pins git:20260522.817c2c7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- eltmon/overdeck
- Path
sync-sources/skills/clear-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260522.817c2c7, committed May 22, 2026
- Size
- 4,051 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- MIT
Use when writing prose humans will read—documentation, commit messages, error messages, explanations, reports, or UI text. Applies proven rules for clearer, stronger, more professional writing and eliminates common AI writing patterns.
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
# Clear Writing ## Overview Write with clarity and force. This skill covers what to do (proven composition rules) and what not to do (AI writing patterns to avoid). ## When to Use This Skill Use this skill whenever you write prose for humans: - Documentation, README files, technical explanations - Commit messages, pull request descriptions - Error messages, UI copy, help text, comments - Reports, summaries, or any explanation - Editing to improve clarity **If you are writing sentences for a human to read, use this skill.** ## Limited Context Strategy When context is tight: 1. Write your draft using judgment 2. Dispatch a subagent with your draft and the relevant section file 3. Have the subagent copyedit and return the revision Loading a single section (~1,000-4,500 tokens) instead of everything saves significant context. ## Composition Rules These rules teach you to write clearly and cut ruthlessly. ### Rules **Elementary Rules of Usage (Grammar/Punctuation)**: 1. Form possessive singular by adding 's 2. Use comma after each term in series except last 3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas 4. Comma before conjunction introducing co-ordinate clause …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add eltmon/overdeck/clear-writing@sha256:2c5ec62be6b40cb3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260522.817c2c7, 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_birv26lalkpl72si)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 22, 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 (4051 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
eltmon/overdeck · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_birv26lalkpl72si GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eltmon/overdeck/clear-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2c5ec62be6b40cb371e117cd8fa8e48ea7c09155b13be795dc2d58c43cdfa696
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.
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