copy-edit SKILL.md skillA

copy-edit from yybd/app-factory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yybd/app-factory/copy-edit@git:20261023.f51d239

Pins git:20261023.f51d239 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
yybd/app-factory
Path
plugins/shared-track/skills/copy-edit/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261023.f51d239, committed Oct 23, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 29, 2026
Size
17,735 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Tighten existing product copy — App Store / Google Play listing text, marketing and product sites, README marketing sections, in-app strings, replies to store reviews — when it reads clumsily: long sentences, stacked clauses, the same point made twice, throat-clearing openers, jargon the buyer does not know, or a translation that reads as a translation rather than as the language. Use when the user says copy is convoluted, wordy, clunky, unprofessional, hard to read, sounds machine-written…

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

# Copy edit — make it read once

This skill is the pass that finds the sentences a reader will stumble on, in every
language the text ships in. It applies a project's own voice rules; it does not
invent them.

**The gap this closes:** copy can pass every banned-word check and still be hard to
read. Clumsiness is a sentence problem — length, clause depth, repetition — and
nothing catches it unless something goes looking. In a language nobody on the team
reads, nothing is looking at all.

## Prerequisites

- **Tools:** none beyond Claude Code — `measure_copy.py` is stdlib Python 3.
- **Credentials:** none.
- **Hub (`$APP_HUB`):** optional — `$APP_HUB/PRODUCT.md` is the studio voice; without
  it the repo's own `PRODUCT.md`, `CLAUDE.md` or shipped copy sets the standard.
- **Other tracks:** `app-store-metadata` (apple-track) re-validates edited store
  fields; the deliver skills (`app-store-deliver`, apple-track; `play-store-deliver`,
  android-track) re-deliver them.

## The single test — two halves

**1. Can a reader get each sentence on the first pass?** If you have to re-read to
parse it, it fails, whatever else is right about it.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yybd/app-factory/copy-edit@sha256:4ab4677a3a5b389a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261023.f51d239, 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.

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_es2i7gdpach6pu4o.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_es2i7gdpach6pu4o)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 29, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 24 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261023.f51d239 latest2026-10-23 f51d239 17,735 BA view · diff
git:20260929.a7fd8b72026-09-29 a7fd8b7 15,939 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (17735 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

GitHub

yybd/app-factory · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_es2i7gdpach6pu4o
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yybd/app-factory/copy-edit
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4ab4677a3a5b389af95e5dc3f53a7ec4f7584e81d2229b3b08c1d476605dd3fc

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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