rhythm-killer SKILL.md skillA
rhythm-killer from kalyvask/winning-writing is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalyvask/winning-writing
- Path
skills/rhythm-killer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260524.24da9a5, committed May 24, 2026
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- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Fixes two sentence-rhythm tells that mark prose as AI-generated. Two targets behind one skill, picked via the --target arg. fragment-chain (three or more short sentences back-to-back) and uniform-length (two or more consecutive sentences within ~2 words of each other, especially with parallel structure). Use when the user says "reads like AI," "too choppy," "same length sentences back to back," "staccato," "fragments piled up," "rhythm is off," "uniform pacing." Pass --target…
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What the file says
# Rhythm killer
Source: `points/ai-writing-rules.md` (the "Choppy short-sentence stacks" entry) and live critiques on cold-email and personal-essay drafts where the model's rhythm gave it away even after surface tells were scrubbed.
## What this skill does
Two passes behind one skill. Each pass fixes a different sentence-rhythm tell:
| Target | What it flags | When to run alone |
|---|---|---|
| **fragment-chain** | three or more short sentences/fragments back-to-back (each under ~6 words) | When the draft has a visible staccato run ("Same apartment. Finally. Tax law travels.") |
| **uniform-length** | two or more consecutive sentences within ~2 words of each other in length, especially with parallel syntactic structure ("You X. You Y. You Z.") | When sentences are different in content but march at the same tempo |
Default `--target all` runs both passes in order: fragment-chain first (more obvious), then uniform-length (subtler, often surfaces after the chain is fixed).
## How to invoke
```
/rhythm-killer "draft text"
/rhythm-killer --target fragment-chain "draft text"
/rhythm-killer --target uniform-length "draft text"
/rhythm-killer --target all "draft text"
```
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/rhythm-killer@sha256:29024916659a5ab2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260524.24da9a5, 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 1 version of this file, committed on May 24, 2026.
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Source
kalyvask/winning-writing · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
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