kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/style-tells/SKILL.md

style-tells skillA

style-tells is agent-read markdown (skill) from kalyvask/winning-writing: Scrubs the three surface tells that make prose feel AI-generated, padded, or jargon-heavy. Three targets behind one skill, picked via the --target arg. em-dashes (default off in cold email / memo / Slack, max one per page in op-eds), adverbs (the -ly and intensifier pile), jargon (the Silicon Valley / consultant kill-list plus AI-tell phrases). Use when the user says "kill the AI tells," "scrub jargon," "remove em-dashes," "cut the adverbs," "make this sound human," "less corporate," "sounds lik.

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

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mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/style-tells@git:20260522.8896ed6
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mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/style-tells@sha256:b5b610d0c24675eb

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A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (10907 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

kalyvask/winning-writing · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zmd4ssuom7samzy7
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/style-tells
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b5b610d0c24675ebdc8fb5c44d896b61b9fdbaca7b49370b07b801c276116bda