tighten-style SKILL.md skillA
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tighten-style from petar-djukic/writing-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add petar-djukic/writing-skills/tighten-style@git:20260901.05fc7acPins git:20260901.05fc7ac in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- petar-djukic/writing-skills
- Path
.cursor/skills/tighten-style/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260901.05fc7ac, committed Sep 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 12, 2026
- Size
- 6,424 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Tighten prose against a rule catalog: cut needless words, restore buried verbs and the active voice, and give paragraphs a spine. Checks sentence-level rules (needless words, intensifiers, hedge stacks, negative form, nominalizations) and paragraph-level structure (topic sentence, one topic, consequent order), citing rule IDs. Tightens toward the author's measured density, never past it. Triggers: tighten, tighten style, omit needless words, wordy, too wordy, cut the fat, edit for concision…
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What the file says
# tighten-style Cuts what does not earn its place and gives paragraphs a spine, against the catalog in [references/style-rules.md](./references/style-rules.md). Every finding cites a rule ID, so the report reads as a copyedit keyed to a document you can argue with rather than a list of opinions. The rules are ours. They cover the ground Strunk covered and the ground he could not — he wrote before markdown and before a machine could produce fluent prose with nothing behind it. ## The floor **Tightening stops at the target register's own density.** Shorter is not the target. Cutting past the measured function-word ratio manufactures the clipped, aphoristic register that reads as machine-written — the failure `filter-tells` calls overshoot. Where a `writing-voice/` corpus exists, `match-structure` supplies that floor; without one, stop at each rule's stated threshold. **The floor is venue-keyed (GH-338).** By default it is the author's own density. With `--venue <name>`, the venue profile (`writing-voice/venues/<name>.yaml`, see the writing-voice rule) supplies it instead: the profile's `targets` (`sentence_length_mean`/`stdev`) become the …
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How to install
mdr add petar-djukic/writing-skills/tighten-style@sha256:aa11a01691c219c9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260901.05fc7ac, 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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| git:20260901.05fc7ac latest | 2026-09-01 | 05fc7ac | 6,424 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.fc1b88f | 2026-08-12 | fc1b88f | 6,306 B | A | view |
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Source
petar-djukic/writing-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rdplyxmtdjy3xpk4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=petar-djukic/writing-skills/tighten-style GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aa11a01691c219c98dcc450f965b5e91521da091fb48da17e8d5b5a947734f2f
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