ms-style-reviewer

ms-style-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anaxite/agent-skills. It costs 93 tokens per session (2,224 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing-review skill based on the Microsoft Writing Style Guide, which is a set of recommendations for clear technical and product writing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review documentation, interface text, developer documentation, blog posts, error messages, procedures, and chatbot responses.
Why use it?
It finds style, wording, grammar, formatting, and terminology problems and reports how serious each issue is.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review documentation, interface text, developer documentation, blog posts, error messages, procedures, and chatbot responses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anaxite/agent-skills/ms-style-reviewer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add anaxite/agent-skills --skill ms-style-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anaxite/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,224 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00093 $0.02224
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01112
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00222

Measured 12d ago against content hash df8a3a93c8e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ms-style-reviewer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/download_style_guide.py, scripts/style_guide_downloader.py, scripts/test_download_style_guide.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/ms-style-reviewer/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Microsoft Writing Style Guide - Review Skill

Review content against the Microsoft Writing Style Guide and report findings organized by severity.

Review workflow

1. Understand the content

Before reviewing, identify:

  • Content type: documentation, UI text, blog post, developer/API docs, error messages, chatbot dialogue, procedures/instructions
  • Audience: end users, developers, IT admins, general public
  • Scope: full document, specific section, or single string

This determines which reference files to load. DO NOT load everything upfront.

2. Quick-scan pass

Read CHECKLISTS.md and scan the content against it. This catches the most common issues fast: capitalization, grammar, punctuation, word choice, acronym handling, numbers, formatting, procedures, and responsiveness.

Also read COMMON-TERM-PITFALLS.md and check whether the content uses any flagged terms.

2b. Term lookup

For any terms flagged in the quick scan—or any word that might be on the MSFT prohibited/preferred list—look up in the term index using grep:

grep -i ",term," references/TERM-INDEX-*.tsv

The index is split into four range files: TERM-INDEX-AD.tsv (A–D), TERM-INDEX-EL.tsv (E–L), TERM-INDEX-MS.tsv (M–S), TERM-INDEX-TZ.tsv (T–Z and symbols). The glob TERM-INDEX-*.tsv searches all four at once.

The match_variants column (column 2) uses leading and trailing comma delimiters for exact matching. Always search the match_variants column, not just the canonical column (column 1).

TSV columns: canonical | match_variants | file | type | thumbnail

  • If the thumbnail (column 5) resolves the question, record the finding and move on.
  • If the type is conditional or the thumbnail indicates complexity, load the full entry from the letter file. The file column gives the filename (e.g., S.md):

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

58 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 117 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A df8a3a93c8e5

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ms-style-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository anaxite/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 2,224 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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