writing:rewrite SKILL.md skillA
writing:rewrite from bendrucker/claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bendrucker/claude/writing:rewrite@git:20261030.03f7155Pins git:20261030.03f7155 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bendrucker/claude
- Path
plugins/writing/skills/rewrite/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261030.03f7155, committed Oct 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 15, 2026
- Size
- 2,062 bytes
- Repository stars
- 18
- License
- MIT
Rewrite a draft message, explanation, or note to strip AI voice, slop, and filler while preserving meaning. Use to polish functional prose before sending.
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
# Rewrite
Load the `writing:writing` skill for the style rules, then rewrite the input to match them. Keep every piece of functional information and change only voice, word choice, and sentence structure. On top of that skill, prefer specific verbs ("generates a report" over "handles report generation") and keep the tone plain and even.
When the input is the user's own writing rather than model output, first note to yourself its core point and its voice: vocabulary, cadence, bluntness, humor, admitted uncertainty, digressions. Then make the smallest edit that clears the tells. Strip the voice entirely only when it is a model's.
## Input
$ARGUMENTS
If `$ARGUMENTS` is a path to an existing file, read the file. Otherwise treat it as the text itself. If empty, ask for the text to rewrite (you may offer to read it from the clipboard).
## Lint
Lint the draft with Vale before and after rewriting. It prints one alert per line (`path:line:col:check:message`):
```bash
vale --config="${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../.vale.ini" --output=line path/to/file.md
```
For a message body (PR, issue, comment), pipe it on stdin with `--ext=.prbody`, or `--ext=.commitmsg` for a commit message.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bendrucker/claude/writing:rewrite@sha256:3835a6dcf1ddc263The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.03f7155, 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_cfvr62kayynh4hvl)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Jun 15, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 20 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261030.03f7155 latest | 2026-10-30 | 03f7155 | 2,062 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261029.c1d931d | 2026-10-29 | c1d931d | 2,642 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261027.82e6b20 | 2026-10-27 | 82e6b20 | 2,650 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.fb4c221 | 2026-08-13 | fb4c221 | 2,560 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260810.69195f8 | 2026-08-10 | 69195f8 | 1,871 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.14c22cf | 2026-07-27 | 14c22cf | 1,690 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260725.1093d3d | 2026-07-25 | 1093d3d | 2,313 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260615.1ec44ee | 2026-06-15 | 1ec44ee | 2,295 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 (2062 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
bendrucker/claude · 18 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cfvr62kayynh4hvl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bendrucker/claude/writing:rewrite GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3835a6dcf1ddc26301a0f907758011f5b0693cebfd3847f68da5a19aeff80cc5
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.