dashfix SKILL.md skillA

dashfix from sentimony/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add sentimony/skills/dashfix@v0.0.17

Pins v0.0.17 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
sentimony/skills
Path
skills/dashfix/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
16
Latest version
v0.0.17, committed Nov 7, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 9, 2026
Size
12,415 bytes
Repository stars
7
License
MIT

You MUST use this when writing or substantively editing prose in a project (docs, READMEs, UI copy) and when asked to audit, count, score, or clean up dash usage - it enforces the plain hyphen over typographic dashes in text of any language.

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

# Dash Discipline

Keep project text free of typographic dashes: the plain hyphen (`-`, U+002D) is the only
dash this skill allows, in every language. A person typing on a keyboard gets U+002D from
the dash key in both the English and the Ukrainian layout; an em dash in prose is a mark
of generated or autocorrected text. The skill has two modes. Write mode covers everything
you write while the skill sits in context, including a single-file check before handoff.
Audit mode runs on request: inventory every occurrence and say how each one gets fixed.
Enforcement covers what neither mode guarantees on its own.

## Banned and allowed characters

| Character | Code point | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `-` hyphen-minus | U+002D | allowed, the only dash to write |
| `—` em dash | U+2014 | banned |
| `–` en dash | U+2013 | banned |
| `‐` `‑` `‒` `―` other Unicode hyphens and bars | U+2010, U+2011, U+2012, U+2015 | banned |
| `−` minus sign in prose | U+2212 | banned in prose; keep only where code or math treats it as a distinct symbol |

## Language scope

The rule is the same for every language, including those whose orthography calls for the
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add sentimony/skills/dashfix@sha256:ae5f467281cb5bd6

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.0.17, 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.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_l6bngnj3lapcgvul.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_l6bngnj3lapcgvul)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 16 versions of this file, between Aug 9, 2026 and Nov 7, 2026, about one every 6 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.0.17 latest2026-11-07 e2d7cec 12,415 BA view · diff
v0.0.162026-11-04 6022530 12,417 BA view · diff
v0.0.152026-11-04 efb8f2a 12,118 BA view · diff
v2.2.32026-11-01 9838372 12,117 BA view · diff
git:20261010.ec93ad72026-10-10 ec93ad7 11,779 BA view · diff
v2.1.02026-10-05 f8123de 18,607 BA view · diff
v2.0.12026-10-04 89f8fdb 18,327 BA view · diff
v2.0.02026-10-04 e7ee0ff 18,139 BA view · diff
v1.3.12026-10-01 832a9a8 20,806 BA view · diff
v1.3.02026-09-25 e1c6f42 20,788 BA view · diff
v1.2.32026-09-16 7451385 17,820 BA view · diff
v1.2.22026-09-14 14583c9 17,842 BA view · diff
v1.2.12026-08-20 8a44fe5 17,301 BA view · diff
v1.2.02026-08-20 9c6766a 17,402 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-08-11 99f7845 15,837 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-09 3070e19 5,179 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 (12415 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

sentimony/skills · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_l6bngnj3lapcgvul
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sentimony/skills/dashfix
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ae5f467281cb5bd6dfa2912525f2398be97f867c9093ba5d62611b8319d08d42

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