writing-line-editing
OfficialTighten sentences with surgical precision.
Content & Communication#redundancy#style cleanup#passive voice#line editing#sentence revision#nominalisations#prose rhythm
Authorhuman-avatar
Version1.0.0
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System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
This Skill fixes sentence-level writing mechanical failures that make prose feel clunky, wordy, airless, or monotonous.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Redundancy removal: Identifies repeated information across or within sentences and recommends specific cuts or combinations.
- Zombie noun (nominalisation) repair: Detects nounified verb patterns and replaces them with sharper active verbs.
- Agency-obscuring passive voice fixes: Flags passive constructions where the agent matters and rewrites toward accountable active voice.
- Rhythm and variation improvements: Detects monotony from uniform sentence patterns and prescribes where to vary structure, length, and openings.
- Throat-clearing cuts: Locates warming-up openers and rewrites them to start with the actual point.
Quick Start
Use the writing-line-editing skill on your draft paragraph by pasting it into the chat and asking for a five-pass line edit report.
Dependency Matrix
Required Modules
None requiredComponents
Standard package💻 Claude Code Installation
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Please help me install this Skill: Name: writing-line-editing Download link: https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/archive/main.zip#writing-line-editing Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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