# ru-check

ru-check reviews Russian text against the ru-text corpus and explains each finding. Use it for a requested proofreading pass or a project check that calls for ru-text.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 318 installs · ★ 279
- Author: talkstream
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/talkstream/ru-text/tree/HEAD/skills/ru-check/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ru-check

## What it does

When asked to proofread, ru-check runs the full review against the ru-text corpus. It checks typography, style and clarity, and can load additional guidance for interface copy, business writing or grammar. Each finding comes with the relevant rule and a suggested replacement.

The skill reviews text supplied in the request, or the latest Russian output if none is supplied. For checks it starts on its own, it uses a limited triage first and moves to the full review when the findings warrant it. It never changes files; proposed edits are for you to apply.

The ru-text corpus must be installed alongside the skill for a full review. ru-check locates its files with `Read`, `Grep` and `Glob`, not a shell. If it cannot find the corpus, it stops, so the result will not be a full corpus-based check without those files.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add talkstream/ru-text --skill ru-check -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add talkstream/ru-text --skill ru-check -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add talkstream/ru-text --skill ru-check -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install talkstream/ru-text ru-check
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add talkstream/ru-text --skill ru-check -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/talkstream/ru-text --path skills/ru-check
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add talkstream/ru-text --skill ru-check -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/talkstream/ru-text/tree/HEAD/skills/ru-check/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- check Russian typography
- spot bureaucratic phrasing and bloated sentences
- review text against ru-text stop words
- apply interface or business-writing guidance

## Example prompts
- Proofread this Russian text using ru-text: “…”
- Check my latest Russian response against the ru-text corpus
- Review this Russian interface copy with ru-text and suggest replacements

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: ru-check
description: >
  Full Russian text quality check against the whole corpus. Triggers: вычитай, вычитай через
  ru-text, прогони ru-text, проверь текст по ru-text, ru-check, полная вычитка. Use when the
  user asks to proofread Russian text, or when a project gate names ru-text. Returns findings
  with the rule behind each and a proposed replacement; never edits a file. Self-initiated
  runs start with a fast triage and escalate on evidence; an explicit request always runs the
  full corpus.
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob
disallowed-tools: Write, Edit, NotebookEdit, Bash, PowerShell, Monitor
context: fork
model: sonnet
effort: medium
user-invocable: true
---

# Russian Text Quality Check

Review the text provided in $ARGUMENTS (or the most recent Russian text output if no arguments) using the ru-text skill.

## Where the reference files live

This skill reads the corpus that ships with the **ru-text** skill, which is installed
alongside it. Locate that folder once, then read the named files from it:

- Look for a directory named `references` whose parent directory is named `ru-text`, and
  which contains `info-style.md`. Every file named below sits in that folder.
- **Search with file tools, never with a shell.** `Glob` on a pattern like
  `**/ru-text/references/info-style.md`, or whatever file search the host offers, then
  `Read`. This command has no use for a command line: `Bash` is on its `disallowed-tools`
  list, and hosts that do not implement that field still refuse it — measured in Claude
  Cowork on 12.08.2026, where an opening `ls` returned «Permission to use Bash has been
  denied» in red before the search found the corpus anyway. The call bought nothing and
  cost the reader a scare.
- In Claude Code the folder is `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../ru-text/references/` — `Read`
  `info-style.md` there first and skip the search. If that path arrives unexpanded or the
  read fails, fall back to the search above.
- **Do not guess a path.** If the folder cannot be found, say so and stop — a check run
  against remembered rules instead of the corpus is not this command, and reporting one
  as the other is the failure this whole product exists to prevent.

## Two depths, one command

This check runs at one of two depths. Nobody chooses a depth; these rules do.

**Full** — the «Check order» below, whole. Run it whenever a person asked for this check
(«вычитай», «прогони ru-text», a gate that names ru-text, a golden-set run) or triage
escalated. An explicit request is never answered with triage.

**Triage** — for self-initiated runs only: you produced or encountered Russian text and are
checking it out of discipline, with no instruction naming ru-text. Load three things and
nothing else:

1. The ru-text `SKILL.md` — its inline typography table and top stop-words. Skip if it is
   already in context, which on an always-on host it usually is.
2. The «Neuroslop index» section of `addenda.md`: from the `## Neuroslop index` heading to
```
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