Agent skill · laurigates
prose-check
Self-evaluate outward-bound prose against the house rubric — the three tics, end-on-the-fact, TL;DR footer. Use when drafting a PR body, issue body, doc, rule, or commit body before it ships.
What it needs
About 4k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
/prose:check Run a draft through the house prose rubric before it ships. When to Use This Skill Use this skill when... Use something else when... --- --- A PR body, issue body, doc, rule, or commit body is drafted and about to ship The text is already written and just needs shortening — use prose-distill Checking whether a draft carries the three tics communication.md says to cut Turning notes into a plan — use prose-synthesize A long answer needs a TL;DR (ELI5) footer decision The artifact must survive a zero-context reader — use agent-patterns-plugin:cold-read-gate Wording a ticket body in the neutral register Assembling the GitHub issue itself — use git-plugin:github-issue-writing Not for chat responses that never hit a file — there is nothing to lint. Draft to a file first if you want the check. The Rubric This Encodes ~/.claude/rules/communication.md is the canonical source. It names three forms to cut on sight: Form Shape --- --- Chiasmus / mirrored clauses A-not-B, B-is-A — content mirrored across a pivot Significance-assertion telling the reader the fact matters instead of stating it Aphorism / general maxim a sentence that would work as a standalone epigram The tell is position plus shape: the sentence lands at the end of a paragraph or section, and it generalizes past the specific claim. Everything under styles/House/ and in scripts/ is a derived encoding of that rule, not a second source of truth. Each rule file carries a link: back to the rule that owns its criterion, and scripts/check-prose-house-style.sh in the repo root pins the derived copy against drift. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills laurigates/prose-check