writing:writing SKILL.md skillA
writing:writing from bendrucker/claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bendrucker/claude/writing:writing@git:20261030.03f7155Pins git:20261030.03f7155 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bendrucker/claude
- Path
plugins/writing/skills/writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261030.03f7155, committed Oct 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 10, 2026
- Size
- 3,068 bytes
- Repository stars
- 18
- License
- MIT
Enforce direct, concise prose style and catch writing slop. Use when writing or editing PR descriptions, issue bodies, commit messages, documentation, Slack messages, or any human-facing text. Also use when asked to clean up, rewrite, or "de-AI" existing text.
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 Write prose a person reads in a direct, conversational voice. The writing hooks lint saved files and outgoing messages against the Vale styles in [`styles/Writing/`](../../styles/Writing/). The text is done when every alert the hook reports on it is fixed. ## Voice Every sentence teaches something new and holds only for this subject. Cut a sentence that restates the obvious or could move unchanged to another person, company, or product, or replace it with something true only of this subject. - Prefer substance to filenames or implementation details. - Prefer short sentences to compound constructions. ## Rules #### Structure - Use no spaced em dash (` — `). - Write each independent clause as its own sentence. A clause joined by an em dash, semicolon, hyphen, or any connector swapped in for one becomes a sentence break. Keep a semicolon only when the clauses can't stand alone. - State the point directly in place of "not just X, but also Y" parallelism. - Name a heading's topic in a couple of words: a noun phrase, without verbs or a `Topic: clause` form. Put the explanation in the body. #### Word Choice - Use "is" or "are" where "serves as" or "stands as" would go. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bendrucker/claude/writing:writing@sha256:5859f2c4b87acaffThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.03f7155, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_vhgrplitsn2cljfr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Aug 10, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261030.03f7155 latest | 2026-10-30 | 03f7155 | 3,068 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261029.c1d931d | 2026-10-29 | c1d931d | 3,167 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.3d86493 | 2026-10-12 | 3d86493 | 3,177 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.070a31a | 2026-09-15 | 070a31a | 3,271 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260827.65a86bb | 2026-08-27 | 65a86bb | 2,910 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.fb4c221 | 2026-08-13 | fb4c221 | 2,731 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.c31e078 | 2026-08-13 | c31e078 | 2,580 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.6385b31 | 2026-08-11 | 6385b31 | 2,511 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260810.69195f8 | 2026-08-10 | 69195f8 | 2,137 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3068 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
bendrucker/claude · 18 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vhgrplitsn2cljfr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bendrucker/claude/writing:writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5859f2c4b87acaffb89338f29d7b70e8cfc91fb7ce8fa7d4b2139bb61272c388
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.