no-fancy-ascii
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Write text using only characters a person types on a normal keyboard. Use this WHENEVER producing or editing human-readable text: website copy, UI strings, headlines, taglines, marketing, READMEs, docs, code comments, commit messages, emails, social posts, or translations (any language). Decorative Unicode (middle dot ·, bullets •, curly quotes “ ” ‘ ’, ellipsis …, arrows → ▸ ▼, non-breaking spaces) reads as machine-generated, because people type straight quotes, three periods, and plain separators. Replace each fancy character with its plain keyboard equivalent; do not swap one ornament for another. Preserve characters a language genuinely needs (Turkish İ ı ş ğ ç ö ü, accents, non-Latin scripts), currency signs (₺ € £ $), and anything a code/data/math context requires. For dashes specifically, see the no-em-dashes skill.
In this repository17 other files it gives its agents.
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- no-ai-design-clichesSkill
- no-ai-signoffsSkill
- no-em-dashesSkill
- no-filler-phrasesSkill
- no-redundant-commentsSkill
- prefer-iconsSkill
- talk-like-meSkill
- throwaway-scriptsSkill
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- use-your-skillsSkill
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1 rule. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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