write-well
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-SkillsProse quality checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, grounded in William Zinsser's *On Writing Well* (30th Anniversary Edition). Checks for clutter, weak verbs,…
Scores out of 100 · grade A
2026-08-17Works
40% of the score100/100
- Loads cleanly: valid frontmatter, required fields present, no dangling references.
Maintained
25% of the score94/100
- no commits in the last 12 weeks
- no license file
Adopted
20% of the score48/100
- 3,432 stars on the source repo.
Documented
15% of the score81/100
- 2,412 words with worked examples.
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/write-wellWhat the check found
| Finding | What it means |
|---|---|
| No license | The repository ships no license file, so the reuse terms are unclear. |
What it says it does
Prose quality checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, grounded in William Zinsser's *On Writing Well* (30th Anniversary Edition). Checks for clutter, weak verbs, hollow qualifiers, clichés, inflated academic voice, poor leads and endings, pronoun and tense inconsistency, and unclear explanation. Produces a structured markdown report organized by document section — never modifies the source file. Use when asked to improve prose quality, tighten writing, reduce clutter, or apply Zinsser's writing principles to a draft. For grammar and punctuation, use the proofread skill. For APSA style rules, use the apsa-style skill. Supports an optional output-file argument and an optional @sec-label argument to restrict checking to one section.
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