grammar-and-mechanics

grammar-and-mechanics is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 93 tokens per session (3,183 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for common grammar, punctuation, and usage problems in business writing. It explains issues such as subject–verb agreement, unclear modifiers, comma splices, and affect versus effect.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check or revise business documents, especially sentences involving pronouns, parallel structure, commas, and commonly confused words.
Why use it?
It helps make professional writing clearer and avoids mistakes that can distract readers or reduce confidence in the document.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the foreman plugin — 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to check or revise business documents, especially sentences involving pronouns, parallel structure, commas, and commonly confused words.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/grammar-and-mechanics
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 fatihguner/foreman --skill grammar-and-mechanics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install foreman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents.

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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 3,183 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 $0.00093 $0.03183
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01591
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00637
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00318

Measured 5d ago against content hash 21c00815ecb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grammar-and-mechanics 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 5d ago.

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.

plugins/foreman/skills/grammar-and-mechanics/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read runtime and advisory rules before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in ../../content/, relative to this SKILL.md.

Grammar and Mechanics

A misplaced apostrophe has never killed a company. But it has killed pitch decks, alienated investors, and quietly disqualified founders from rooms they never knew they were being evaluated for. Grammar errors in business writing operate as a credibility tax: each one individually minor, collectively devastating. Readers may not consciously register the error, but they register its effect -- a subtle downgrade in how seriously they take the author. The founder who writes "it's revenue model" instead of "its revenue model" in a Series A memo has communicated something unintended: carelessness with details. And carelessness with details is precisely the trait investors screen for.

The rules that follow are not pedantic niceties. They are the twelve grammatical principles and twelve punctuation conventions that, when violated, most reliably damage professional credibility.


The Framework

Twelve Essential Grammar Rules

1. Starting sentences with And or But is perfectly acceptable. The myth persists from secondary school, but the best prose writers have always done it. Monosyllabic conjunctions create tighter transitions than however or additionally.

2. Ending a sentence with a preposition is fine. The prohibition traces to Latin syntax and has no basis in English grammar. "What will the new product be used for?" reads more naturally than the contorted alternative.

3. Use well as an adverb, not good. "The team performed well" -- not "performed good." The exception: set phrases like "a good many" or "did it but good."

4. The subject determines the verb's number. Prepositional phrases that follow the subject create "false attraction" -- the verb should match the subject, not the nearest noun.

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 5d ago First seen · 193 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 21c00815ecb3

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grammar-and-mechanics is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 3,183 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 2026-09-06.

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