better-writing SKILL.md skillA
better-writing from transitive-bullshit/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add transitive-bullshit/skills/better-writing@git:20261011.ef64499Pins git:20261011.ef64499 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- transitive-bullshit/skills
- Path
provenance/upstream/better-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261011.ef64499, committed Oct 11, 2026
- Size
- 9,420 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Writes and reviews your interface copy, from labels and errors to empty states and confirmations, so it matches your product's voice and tells people what to do next.
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 This skill writes and reviews interface copy such as labels, errors, empty states and confirmations, along with the terms that run through them. It matches the product's existing voice and flags copy that misleads people or leaves them without a way forward. A deliberate brand voice is not a defect. Raise a departure from plain language only when it creates inconsistency, ambiguity, translation risk or a tone the stakes don't support. Rewording that merely suits your taste is not a finding. How copy renders, including `text-transform`, truncation and smart punctuation, belongs to `better-typography`. Error markup, announcements and the attributes that carry accessible names belong to `better-accessibility`. Room for translated strings belongs to `better-layout`. ## Inventory the existing strings first Before writing or reviewing, find where the copy lives and read the copy around the change: 1. Search for the translation call (`t(`, `i18n.`, `<FormattedMessage`, `$t(`) and the locale files it reads, such as `locales/**/*.json`, `messages/*.json`, `*.po` and `*.strings`. Copy may also come from a CMS or the API. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add transitive-bullshit/skills/better-writing@sha256:ef6843cbfcbafa62The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.ef64499, 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_z7e2rks2iufv2euc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 11, 2026.
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 (9420 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
transitive-bullshit/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_z7e2rks2iufv2euc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=transitive-bullshit/skills/better-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ef6843cbfcbafa62614b1a6e012c0b1ab6fd33eee0bdd84123cf49fe275c3a31
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.
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