voice-style SKILL.md skillA
voice-style from danjdewhurst/story-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/voice-style@git:20261014.4b8019dPins git:20261014.4b8019d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- danjdewhurst/story-skills
- Path
skills/voice-style/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 14
- Latest version
- git:20261014.4b8019d, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 22, 2026
- Size
- 12,217 bytes
- Repository stars
- 395
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a style sheet", "style guide", "house style", "keep the voice consistent", "voice drift", "British or American spelling", "character voices", "lint the prose", "prose check", "filter words", "said-bookisms", "overused words", "repeated phrases", "similar character names", "voice fingerprints", or wants to record and enforce the voice and surface conventions of a story project. NOT for rewriting dialogue to make the voices distinct when…
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
# Voice & Style ## Overview Record the book's voice and surface conventions in `style-sheet.md`, then enforce them. The style sheet is the copyeditor's record: dialect and spelling choices, capitalisation, hyphenation, numbers, dialogue punctuation, a one-line voice summary per major speaker, and a watch list. Its frontmatter is machine-readable, and `story prose` counts violations and prose tics in every chapter. Use this skill so voice stays the same across chapters, drafting sessions, and agents. ## Prerequisites A story project with `story.md` in the root. `story init` scaffolds `style-sheet.md`; older projects can add it with `story init '<title>' --dir . --force`, which only adds missing files, or by copying `references/style-sheet-guide.md`'s frontmatter block by hand. ## Language Read `language` in `story.md` (a BCP 47 tag; a missing field means `en`). The style sheet records the conventions of that language, and the voice description is written about prose in it. `dialect: british` and `american` and the built-in word lists behind filter words, -ly adverbs, and said-bookisms are English. For another language, set …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/voice-style@sha256:d404f6e4e9cab09dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.4b8019d, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 14 versions of this file, between Sep 22, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261014.4b8019d latest | 2026-10-14 | 4b8019d | 12,217 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.d78143d | 2026-10-08 | d78143d | 12,076 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.ee2145a | 2026-10-08 | ee2145a | 12,002 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.0c797b9 | 2026-10-07 | 0c797b9 | 11,938 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.c7f46f2 | 2026-10-07 | c7f46f2 | 11,776 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.861d7e9 | 2026-10-07 | 861d7e9 | 12,790 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.880a47b | 2026-10-02 | 880a47b | 10,682 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.9ed97c2 | 2026-09-29 | 9ed97c2 | 9,378 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.9592192 | 2026-09-27 | 9592192 | 8,402 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.e229b6a | 2026-09-25 | e229b6a | 8,104 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260924.640a5ad | 2026-09-24 | 640a5ad | 7,031 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.f9090b8 | 2026-09-24 | f9090b8 | 7,820 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.0a6f7c9 | 2026-09-22 | 0a6f7c9 | 5,378 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
danjdewhurst/story-skills · 395 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_igytdanvnefl23ye GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/voice-style GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d404f6e4e9cab09da1b2f2402a0b24505ecadb8d2ce7b049443af0fa5fb37930
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