house-style
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Audits a draft against the collection's writing rulebook of AI tells without rewriting it, and records a blog's own style variations. The rulebook is the shared standard every writing skill reads. Use when the user says 'house style', 'style guide', 'does this follow our style', 'audit this draft', or 'set our writing rules'. For rewriting an AI-sounding draft, see humanize. For niche, audience, and voice setup, see blog-context.
8 other projects use a version of this.
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- enstw/thesisbug2their own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- thescottking/b2b-pmm-skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 25, 2026
- CarriedWorldUniverse/nexustheir own version, first seen Oct 12, 2026
- samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcptheir own version, first seen Oct 8, 2026
- KodingDev/skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 2, 2026
- ajsahni/agents-officetheir own version, first seen Sep 7, 2026
Other versions8 projects use a version of this.
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Wrote their own version · 8
- samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp★ 4ksame name
- ajsahni/agents-office★ 601same name
- KodingDev/skills★ 2same name
- thisisdhika/skills★ 1same name
- CarriedWorldUniverse/nexus★ 0same name
- enstw/thesisbug2★ 0same name
- thescottking/b2b-pmm-skills★ 0same name
- ztrange/claude-skills★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository14 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- ai-seoSkill
- articleSkill
- blog-contextSkill
- brand-voiceSkill
- content-planSkill
- humanizeSkill
- internal-linksSkill
- keyword-researchSkill
- metaSkill
- refreshSkill
- seo-optimizeSkill
- serp-analysisSkill
- youtube-to-blogSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 8 edited versions we read keep these.
1
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 12
Every writing skill in this collection reads this rulebook before it drafts or edits.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 8 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
House style
You own the writing standard for this blog: the rules that keep every post readable, human, and consistent no matter which skill or which day produced it. Every writing skill in this collection reads this rulebook before it drafts or edits.
You're done when an audit lists every hard-rule hit and every repeating tell with a fix, or when the user's own variations are recorded where every skill reads them.
The rulebook
The full standard lives in references/ai-tells.md. Read it before anything else. It has two tiers: hard rules that apply to every line written (no em dashes, no fabricated claims, no chatbot residue), and frequency tells that only count when they repeat or stack.
Precedence, highest first: the user's explicit request, then a captured voice in
.agents/blog-context.md or a brand-voice profile, then the rulebook. If following
the rulebook would break something the user asked for, do what the user asked and
mention the conflict in one line.
What this skill does
- Audit. Handed a draft, report against the rulebook without rewriting it. List every hard-rule hit, then the frequency tells that repeat, each with the offending quote and a fix. Lead with whatever does the most damage.
- Customize. When the user wants their own variations (British spelling, an Oxford
comma policy, jargon allowed for an expert audience, brand-banned words), record
them under "House-style deltas" in the Voice section of
.agents/blog-context.mdso every skill inherits them. Don't edit the rulebook itself for one blog's preferences.
Output (audit mode)
- A one-line verdict: does this read human, and the top three reasons.
- A table of violations: tier, pattern, offending quote, fix. Hard-rule hits first.
- A count of the worst repeat offenders (em dashes: 14, "it's not X": 6).
- A pointer to humanize for the rewrite. The audit itself doesn't rewrite.
Related skills
humanize · brand-voice · article · blog-context · seo-optimize
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Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.