What problem does it solve? Drafting articles, docs, and long-form prose often produces generic, formulaic, or mechanically flawed text that linters alone cannot catch. This Skill pairs a deterministic Vale review gate with mandatory editorial checks so prose is both mechanically clean and genuinely specific, coherent, and reader-appropriate. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Vale house gate: A bundled Vale configuration with custom rules (no em dashes, plain word choice, AI-slop detection, weasel words) plus whitelisted Microsoft and built-in Vale styles, run via scripts/vale-lint.sh. - Editorial rule set: Fourteen mandatory quality rules covering specificity, fact discipline, register fit, regularity, and structure that a linter cannot judge. - Required checks and references: Ten revision tripwires plus long-form diagnostics, a formula watchlist, correction examples, and book-writing cost estimation references. - Use Case: You draft a blog post, run the Vale gate to clear mechanical errors, then apply the editorial pass to cut generic claims, verify fragile facts, and break repetitive sentence patterns before publishing. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to draft or revise your article using the writing-prose skill, then run the Vale gate on the draft file and apply the required editorial checks.
