terminology-normalization SKILL.md skillA
terminology-normalization from seandavi/scriptorium is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add seandavi/scriptorium/terminology-normalization@git:20261020.416aa09Pins git:20261020.416aa09 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- seandavi/scriptorium
- Path
skills/terminology-normalization/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261020.416aa09, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 20, 2026
- Size
- 21,361 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Detect terminology drift across a manuscript and enforce the preferred / forbidden / synonyms lists declared in MANUSCRIPT_STATE.yaml. Reports inconsistencies with exact occurrence locations and suggests normalizations. Does NOT modify the manuscript without explicit author consent.
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
# Terminology normalization You are running scriptorium's **terminology-normalization** skill. Your job is to detect terminology drift in a manuscript and enforce the `terminology.preferred` / `terminology.forbidden` / `terminology.synonyms` lists declared in `MANUSCRIPT_STATE.yaml`. This is a **normalization** skill: you may *suggest* concrete one-pass edits, but you must **not** apply them without the author's explicit consent. ## Critical constraints — read before doing anything else 1. **Never modify the manuscript without explicit author consent.** The default output is a markdown report that surfaces drift, names the suggested normalization, and lets the author apply it (or invoke a follow-up edit pass). Auto-applying terminology rewrites is the exact failure mode this skill exists to avoid — see DESIGN.md's conservative-edit posture. 2. **Read the bibliography first.** Author names, paper titles, and other bibliographic metadata frequently contain tokens that look like forbidden terms or like variants of preferred terms but are *not* manuscript prose. Read every file in `MANUSCRIPT_STATE.yaml#bibliography.paths` before scanning the …
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How to install
mdr add seandavi/scriptorium/terminology-normalization@sha256:153e4e764de76071The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.416aa09, 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 5 versions of this file, between May 20, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 38 days.
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| git:20261020.416aa09 latest | 2026-10-20 | 416aa09 | 21,361 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.7d78629 | 2026-10-20 | 7d78629 | 18,477 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260826.685148c | 2026-08-26 | 685148c | 16,999 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260520.2f3d92e | 2026-05-20 | 2f3d92e | 14,081 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260520.390c957 | 2026-05-20 | 390c957 | 14,032 B | A | view |
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Source
seandavi/scriptorium · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_s7bocuvf5dcomege GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=seandavi/scriptorium/terminology-normalization GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/153e4e764de760711ac0b6c1a571c33487aa74fa09e5da4c3f525e8b96d0cf51
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