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synthesis-writing-pitfalls skillA

synthesis-writing-pitfalls is agent-read markdown (skill) from synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills: Universal bad-writing patterns produced by human authors and editors, independent of AI. Covers cringe (humble-bragging, defensive disclaimers, third-person self-reference in personal writing, pre-emptive originality defense, apologizing-while-bragging), throat-clearing, caveat overload, reader-relationship missteps, sentence-level weakness, cliché reliance, and stilted formality. Use when reviewing or editing prose for craft failures, doing archive scans, self-editing drafts, or training writer.

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-writing-pitfalls@v1.1.0
Exact content
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-writing-pitfalls@sha256:430e18120ff10555

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

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v1.1.0 latest2026-08-23 416b582 15,160 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-22 7abe60d 15,160 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-07-29 9b134e7 14,419 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (15160 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

synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills · 19 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-18 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_klozurimvmbj4m2v
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-writing-pitfalls
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/430e18120ff10555d832e19081567d1ccdbe8162d95852f4d210bdb04a4c294a

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