# prose-crafting

Edits and audits English and Ukrainian prose for tone, clarity, and concision. Useful for refining documentation, PR replies, and technical essays.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 541 installs · ★ 6
- Author: sentimony
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/sentimony/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/writing/skills/prose-crafting/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/prose-crafting

## What it does

The skill edits and evaluates English and Ukrainian copy across articles, documentation, email threads, and PR comments. It targets filler, inflated introductions, and explanations the reader already understands. Draft origin does not change the process. Machine-generated drafts and human writing receive the exact same scrutiny.

Work runs across three modes: `rewrite` generates revised text, `audit` reports findings without altering files, and `explain` justifies editorial decisions. Before touching prose, the skill drafts a reader brief covering audience knowledge, communicative goals, and register norms. A pull request reply drops greetings and recaps. Direct facts take precedence over decorative phrasing.

The skill excludes translation, prompt engineering layers, and UI interface copy. Specialized typography checks belong to `dashfix`, while negative parallelism detection belongs to `negafix`. Author voice overrides default patterns whenever writing samples are provided.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill prose-crafting -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/prose-crafting/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/prose-crafting/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill prose-crafting -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/prose-crafting/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill prose-crafting -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/prose-crafting/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install sentimony/skills prose-crafting
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/prose-crafting/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill prose-crafting -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/sentimony/skills --path plugins/writing/skills/prose-crafting
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/prose-crafting/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill prose-crafting -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/sentimony/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/writing/skills/prose-crafting/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- trim bloated pull request comments down to decisions
- audit technical documentation without modifying files
- adapt draft copy to specific email or reference registers
- strip conversational filler and repetitive explanations

## Example prompts
- Tighten this PR reply so it starts directly with the decision and drops recaps.
- Run an audit on `docs/overview.md` to flag clarity issues without rewriting the text.
- Rewrite this article draft for concise delivery while preserving my author voice.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: prose-crafting
description: You MUST use this when drafting, rewriting, editing, or reviewing English or Ukrainian prose for clarity, concision, tone, naturalness, or audience fit - including documentation, messages, articles, and product copy. Not for translation, agent instructions, or UI design. Specialized dash and negative-parallelism audits belong to dashfix and negafix; technical review finding validation belongs to review-resolution.
metadata:
  version: "1.1.2"
license: MIT
---

# Prose Crafting

Edit prose for the person who will read it. A good edit fits the text to its reader,
purpose, context, and author, keeps every claim intact, and removes what costs the reader
attention without giving anything back: staging, inflation, padding, generic conclusions
that add nothing, and explanation the reader does not need. The origin of a draft does
not change the process. AI-generated, human, and mixed drafts are edited the same way,
and this skill makes no judgement about who wrote a text.

## Scope and ownership

Use it to draft or revise prose, to audit prose, or to explain editorial choices. The
neighbours own their narrow checks:

- `dashfix` owns dash characters, their replacement with the plain hyphen in every
  language, and the dash audit. Here a paragraph whose connections all run through
  dashes can be noted as `rhythm/dash-connector` with a pointer to `dashfix`; this skill
  keeps no dash table or verdicts.
- `negafix` owns negative parallelism in every form it covers, with its catalog and score.
  Here the construction is noted as `contrast/negative-parallelism` with a pointer. In a
  rewrite, a sentence built on it is restructured like any other sentence, under the
  preservation check below.
- `review-resolution` owns deciding whether a review finding is valid and what to change;
  this skill owns the wording of the reply.
- `maintaining-agent-context` owns AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and the instruction layer of
  SKILL.md files.
- `frontend-crafting` owns copy written as part of designing an interface; this skill owns
  the text when the text alone is the task.

Translation, AI-detection, and evading detectors are out of scope. When a project runs
`dashfix` or `negafix`, their write-mode rules also apply to text this skill produces.

## Modes

Choose from the request. "Edit", "rewrite", "tighten", "polish", or "make it sound like"
mean rewrite; "review", "check", "what's wrong", or "don't change it" mean audit; "why" or
"walk me through" mean explain.

| Mode | Output | Files |
| --- | --- | --- |
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