writing-style-guideline SKILL.md skillA

writing-style-guideline from jim60105/copilot-prompt is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jim60105/copilot-prompt/writing-style-guideline@git:20261007.2cd221a

Pins git:20261007.2cd221a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jim60105/copilot-prompt
Path
skills/writing-style-guideline/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261007.2cd221a, committed Oct 7, 2026
Size
11,373 bytes
Repository stars
22
License
GFDL-1.3

Language-agnostic writing style guidelines covering structure, tone, rhetorical constraints, banned phrases, and review checks. Use when writing any kind of content in any language. Including blog posts, notes, technical articles, technical writing, chitchat, social media posts, etc., even when you are just sending a text message. Also use when reviewing or editing existing content for tone and style compliance. For Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) content, apply `chinese-content-writing-guideline`…

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 Style Guidelines

This skill defines the writing style for all content regardless of language: structure, tone, rhetorical constraints, banned phrases, and the review checklist. Language-specific rules (script, punctuation width, spacing, grammar particles, and terminology) live in separate skills. For Traditional Chinese (zh-TW), apply `chinese-content-writing-guideline` together with this skill.

Most rules here target the patterns that make text read as machine-generated or padded: templated rhetoric, stock phrases, and vague authority. Readers spot these quickly and stop trusting the content, so each rule states what to avoid and why. When a sentence breaks the letter of a rule for a good reason, keep the reason in mind; when a sentence avoids the letter but keeps the pattern, it still violates the rule.

Some rules below quote zh-TW literals because they were first written for Chinese content. When writing in another language, apply the same rule to the direct equivalent expressions in that language.

## Voice

A single named author with a direct line to the reader reads as accountable; a corporate 「我們」 or "we" hides who is making the claim.
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jim60105/copilot-prompt/writing-style-guideline@sha256:38ee4ef824f9cb7b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.2cd221a, 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 Oct 7, 2026.

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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 (11373 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

jim60105/copilot-prompt · 22 stars · license GFDL-1.3 · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ufbtqrztfujcadzl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jim60105/copilot-prompt/writing-style-guideline
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/38ee4ef824f9cb7b5a0e1ed676625cf1f6eed5562d05697d2c450232210968a7

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