synthesis-writing-pitfalls SKILL.md skillA
synthesis-writing-pitfalls from synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-writing-pitfalls@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills
- Path
skills/synthesis-writing-pitfalls/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 29, 2026
- Size
- 5,751 bytes
- Repository stars
- 23
- License
- Apache-2.0
Catch human-source bad-writing patterns: humble-bragging, credential-stuffing, throat-clearing, caveat overload, reader flattery or condescension, weak sentences, cliché, register mismatch, needless edits. Use when reviewing, editing or self-editing prose, or scanning an archive.
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
# Writing Pitfalls Universal bad-writing patterns that human authors and editors fall into, independent of AI. This skill is the human-source counterpart to `synthesis-content-quality` (which catches AI-generation patterns) and the negative complement to `synthesis-writing-craft` (which carries positive principles). ## Binding rules 1. **Identify a pattern by its function, not its surface form.** The same words can be a pitfall in one venue and right in another, so calibrate by venue, audience and intent. 2. **The fix is some version of: trust the reader, drop the defense, state the substance plainly.** 3. **Every edit names the defect it repairs** (pattern 23). Keep a strong sentence when a change has no demonstrable gain. 4. **Prose cues do not establish authorship.** Classify the pattern, explain its effect and revise; never turn a style cue into a claim that a human or a model wrote it. 5. **Keep the two root causes apart.** Human-source patterns are fixed here; AI-generation patterns go to `synthesis-content-quality`. Merging them obscures both fixes. …
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How to install
mdr add synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-writing-pitfalls@sha256:7930ce69823d3430The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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 4 versions of this file, between Jul 29, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 23 days.
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| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-10-05 | 227204f | 5,751 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-23 | 416b582 | 15,160 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-22 | 7abe60d | 15,160 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-29 | 9b134e7 | 14,419 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills · 23 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · 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/7930ce69823d343017478f8bef34ebcc5f715e53343860e33a950cb2e7036843
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