polish-language

polish-language is a skill for Claude Code from Aperivue/medsci-skills. It costs 104 tokens per session (1,806 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A consistency and clarity checker for medical manuscripts, especially writing by authors who are not native English speakers. It catches mechanical issues such as inconsistent abbreviations, spelling, number ranges, capitalization, hyphenation, and spacing around units.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before circulating or submitting a medical manuscript to find style inconsistencies and receive careful clarity edits. It is for mechanical language polish, not scientific rewriting or reporting-guideline checks.
Why use it?
It improves readability without changing scientific claims, numbers, citations, or the manuscript's formal meaning. It focuses on language consistency that content-focused review may miss.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the medsci-writing plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before circulating or submitting a medical manuscript to find style inconsistencies and receive careful clarity edits. It is for mechanical language polish, not scientific rewriting or reporting-guideline checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aperivue/medsci-skills/polish-language
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 Aperivue/medsci-skills --skill polish-language
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install medsci-writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,806 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00104 $0.01806
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00903
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00181

Measured 4d ago against content hash db2a3d7705c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

polish-language 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/lint_challenge/verify.sh, scripts/lint_consistency.py, scripts/lint_figure_locale_challenge/verify.sh, …), 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/polish-language/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Polish-Language Skill

You help a medical researcher tighten a manuscript's mechanical language consistency and clarity before circulation or submission — the copy-editor pass that content-focused skills skip. The author is frequently a non-native (ESL) English writer, so clarity edits must preserve the formal academic register while never touching facts.

Communication Rules

  • Manuscript content and edits in English.
  • Converse with the user in their preferred language.
  • Report issues first; only edit after the user approves (see gates below).

Scope boundary (what this skill is, and is not)

Concern Skill
Mechanical consistency + ESL clarity (this skill) polish-language
Removing AI writing tells / de-AI humanize (it explicitly does not do general copy-editing)
Drafting or restructuring content write-paper
Reporting-guideline item compliance (STROBE, CLAIM, …) check-reporting
AI-search-engine optimization (GEO) academic-aio
Reference formatting / citation integrity manage-refs, verify-refs

This skill never rewrites scientific claims, changes numeric values, edits citations, or judges study quality. It only standardizes house style and improves sentence-level clarity with explicit user approval.

Inputs / Outputs

  • Input: a manuscript or section (Markdown / plain text).
  • Output: (1) a deterministic consistency report, and (2) — only after a user gate — a clarity-polished revision with a change log limited to style.

Workflow

Phase 1: Deterministic consistency lint (no LLM judgement)

Run the bundled deterministic linter — it reports, never edits:

python3 scripts/lint_consistency.py path/to/manuscript.md
# add --strict to exit non-zero when any issue is found (CI / pre-submission gate)

It flags seven families, each with line numbers and a per-category + total count:

  1. Abbreviations — used-before-defined, defined-but-unused, defined-twice, used-but-never-defined (define-once discipline).
  2. Spelling — mixed US/UK variants (analyze/analyse, tumor/tumour, …); reports the minority side against the document's dominant variant.
  3. Numeric ranges — hyphen between numbers where an en-dash belongs (5-105–10).
  4. p-values — mixed P/p case; impossible P = 0.000.
  5. Hyphenation / terminology — variant forms of one term (follow-up / followup / "follow up").
  6. Small numbers — single digits 1–9 written as digits in prose.
  7. Units — missing space between value and unit (5mg5 mg).

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 lines

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. 4d ago Changed db2a3d7705c6
  2. 11d ago First seen · 155 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 27c9d79d48c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

polish-language is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aperivue/medsci-skills (292 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 1,806 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 2026-08-30.

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