Red Pen

richtabor/red-pen

> A strict editorial reviewer that checks writing principles inspired by George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" rules and Matthew Butterick's Practical Typography. Use this skill whenever the user says "red pen", "check my prose", "edit this for clarity", "typography check", "tighten this up", "review this draft for style", or wants a rigorous line-edit focused on cutting flab, killing dead metaphors, fixing passive voice, and correcting typographic errors like straight quotes, wrong dashes, and double spaces. Also use when the user asks you to be a "tough editor", "strict editor", or "copy editor", or wants feedback on prose quality rather than content or structure.

2k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/richtabor/agent-skills --skill red-pen

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take richtabor/red-pen from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.