writing SKILL.md skillA

writing from iliaal/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add iliaal/ai-skills/writing@git:20261019.5dcf8a9

Pins git:20261019.5dcf8a9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
iliaal/ai-skills
Path
skills/writing/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20261019.5dcf8a9, committed Oct 19, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 27, 2026
Size
5,968 bytes
Repository stars
45
License
MIT

Prose editing, rewriting, and humanizing text for natural tone, or auditing a draft for AI tells without rewriting. Use when asked to write, rewrite, edit, humanize, proofread, fix tone, remove AI language, or check whether writing reads as AI. For copy, docs, blog posts, emails, or PRs.

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

# Human writing

Edit human-facing prose while preserving meaning, factual accuracy, and the writer's voice. User instructions and the intended audience outrank these style preferences. Editing a draft does not authorize posting it.

## Modes

- **Edit** (default): produce corrected text. Add a changelog only when the caller asks for one; place it outside the returned text, never inside a delivered artifact such as a commit body, PR description, or comment.
- **Proofread or point edit**: for "proofread", "fix grammar", or "check this", correct only clear errors (grammar, spelling, punctuation, plainly unnatural phrasing) and keep the English variety (British or American). An em dash is a style choice, not an error; leave it unless the request asks for style edits. When the request names a span ("fix this headline", "tighten paragraph two"), change only that span plus the minimum around it needed to read cleanly, and return only the changed text. Skip the style procedure and the whole-draft sweep. Keep a change only when it is measurably better, not merely different. Leave a passage unchanged and flag it when fixing it requires guessing the intended meaning. Treat instructions…
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add iliaal/ai-skills/writing@sha256:fa1a79bd43449a83

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.5dcf8a9, 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.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_wylsyxxi43o6xmdi.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_wylsyxxi43o6xmdi)

5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Jul 27, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 10 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261019.5dcf8a9 latest2026-10-19 5dcf8a9 5,968 BA view · diff
git:20261011.09c16df2026-10-11 09c16df 4,986 BA view · diff
git:20260926.7b0520a2026-09-26 7b0520a 4,889 BA view · diff
git:20260920.87663902026-09-20 8766390 4,863 BA view · diff
git:20260908.6c9fed12026-09-08 6c9fed1 4,641 BA view · diff
git:20260906.9107cb12026-09-06 9107cb1 14,945 BA view · diff
git:20260819.2f9d2632026-08-19 2f9d263 14,343 BA view · diff
git:20260804.30e97152026-08-04 30e9715 13,161 BA view · diff
git:20260727.3ddf2a22026-07-27 3ddf2a2 12,812 BA view

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 (5968 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

iliaal/ai-skills · 45 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wylsyxxi43o6xmdi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iliaal/ai-skills/writing
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fa1a79bd43449a83cc93dfac5404381afa37139f370af56659f42e690dffb1c4

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