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professional-proofreader

Use when a user asks to "proofread", "review and correct", "fix grammar", "improve readability while keeping my voice", and to proofread a document file and save an updated version.

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The canonical home for this skill is professional-proofreader in administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-structured overview that delegates detailed workflows to two appropriate, real reference files with clear validation steps. Its main weaknesses are redundancy (When-to-Use duplicating the description, checklists of universally known grammar categories) and the never-specified format of the modification log, the skill's primary output alongside the corrected text.

Suggestions

Delete or drastically trim the 'When to Use' section — it duplicates the frontmatter description that is already loaded at trigger time.

Replace the Grammar/Spelling/Punctuation category checklists with a one-line reminder or move them into a reference; Claude does not need 'Commas' and 'Apostrophes' enumerated to proofread.

Add a short example of the modification-log format (e.g. a 2–3 item before/after list) so the primary inline output is fully specified.

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Conciseness

The 'When to Use' section repeats the frontmatter description almost verbatim, and the Grammar/Spelling/Punctuation checklists ('Subject-verb agreement', 'Commas', 'Apostrophes') enumerate categories Claude already knows. Mostly lean list-based writing, but the redundancy and filler like 'quality standards equivalent to: Academic proofreading, business document refinement, pre-publication review' keep it below anchor 4.

3 / 5

Actionability

Mode dispatch is concrete and both reference files give executable step-by-step guidance (exact no-text response, 'UPDATED_weekly_meal_plan.docx' naming example, validation checklist). Minor gaps: the modification log — a primary output — is never exemplified, and 'Give friendly message to user in the end' is vague.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The references sequence work clearly (Steps 1–6 inline, Steps 1–5 file mode) with an explicit validation pass and refine loop ('If violation detected → refine before output'). File mode lacks post-save output verification and the body delegates all sequencing, so it stops short of anchor 5; saving is non-destructive (UPDATED_ prefix), so the destructive-operation cap does not apply.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Two real, one-level-deep reference files are appropriately split by mode and verified to exist. Minor organization gaps: clumsy link labels ('Refer [markdown](references/inline-text-mode.md)'), Mode 2's trigger list inlined while Mode 1 has none, and the duplicated When-to-Use section.

4 / 5

Total

15

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20

Passed

Description

61%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description has strong, natural trigger phrases and an explicit 'Use when' clause, but it is entirely trigger-framed: it never states in the skill's own voice what it does or returns. Adding a concrete capability statement (corrected version + modification log, UPDATED_ file naming, supported formats) would lift both specificity and completeness.

Suggestions

Open with a third-person capability statement, e.g. 'Returns a corrected version of text or document files plus a structured modification log; saves updated files with an UPDATED_ prefix.', before the 'Use when' clause.

Include supported file types and extensions (.docx, .pdf, .txt) and synonyms like 'polish' or 'edit' in the trigger list to improve trigger coverage and distinctiveness.

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Specificity

Concrete actions ('proofread', 'fix grammar', 'improve readability while keeping my voice') appear only inside quoted user phrases; the skill's own outputs (corrected version, modification log, UPDATED_ prefix) are never stated. It names the domain and a few actions but is not a comprehensive capability statement, sitting between anchors 3 and 4.

3 / 5

Completeness

The 'when' is explicit via 'Use when a user asks to...', but the 'what' is only implied through the trigger verbs and never states what the skill produces. This lands between anchor 2 ('only when present') and anchor 3, since the implied what is reasonably clear.

3 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural trigger coverage ('proofread', 'review and correct', 'fix grammar', 'improve readability while keeping my voice'), but common synonyms ('polish', 'edit') and file extensions (.docx, .pdf, .txt) are absent from the description, so it falls short of the comprehensive anchor 5.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Triggers like 'proofread' and 'improve readability while keeping my voice' carve a mostly distinct niche with only minor overlap risk against generic editing or writing skills. Not anchor 5 because no document types or distinguishing output conventions are named.

4 / 5

Total

14

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills

Path

plugins/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills-claude/skills/professional-proofreader/SKILL.md

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