natural-writing

Writing rules for producing natural, accurate, and readable longer text, including analysis, pull-request descriptions, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when drafting longer technical or analytical writing.
Why use it?
They reduce common artificial-sounding patterns and make text easier to understand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flutter/agent-plugins/natural-writing
Any agent
npx skills add flutter/agent-plugins --skill natural-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flutter/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,823 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00036 $0.01823
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00911
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00182

Measured 2d ago against content hash f89735df6046, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

natural-writing 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to natural-writing — 63 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/agents/reidbaker-agent/skills/natural-writing/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rules for Natural Writing

This document outlines strict rules to avoid common "AI-isms"—stylistic and structural patterns that language models typically fall into. Follow these rules to produce content that is more understandable, and reads as natural, human-authored text.

1. Vocabulary & Phrasing Controls

The "Banned" List

Avoid these words, which are statistically overrepresented in AI text. Use simpler, more direct alternatives.

  • Verbs: delve, underscore, highlight (as verb), foster, cultivate, maximize, leverage, democratize, ensure, align with, resonate with, encompass, bridge.
  • Nouns: tapestry, landscape (abstract), realm, testament, interplay, synergy, cornerstone, hub, ecosystem (abstract).
  • Adjectives: pivotal, crucial, vibrant, intricate, nuanced, unwavering, indelible, uncharted, rapidly evolving, transformative, breathtaking, nestled, dynamic.

Avoid "Copula" Substitutions

Do not replace simple "is/are" verbs with flowery equivalents.

  • Bad: "The library serves as a center for learning."
  • Bad: "The statue stands as a monument to..."
  • Good: "The library is a center for learning."
  • Good: "The statue is a monument to..."

Eliminate "Elegant Variation"

Do not use synonyms just to avoid repeating a subject's name (e.g., "the eponymous character," "the titular protagonist," "the celebrated author"). It is acceptable to repeat the name or use pronouns naturally.

Banned Temporal Words in Code & Comments

Do not use relative temporal terms in code, variable names, function names, or comments. These words lose their meaning as the codebase evolves over time.

  • Banned Words: now, currently, existing behavior, previous behavior, old, new, modern.
  • Bad: // This function now uses the config parser instead of hardcoding.
  • Good: // Resolves paths via [ConfigParser.loadConfig] to support custom config locations.

2. Content & Tone

No "Puffery" or Forced Significance

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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. 2d ago First seen · 151 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A f89735df6046

Subscribe to this mod's changes

natural-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository flutter/agent-plugins (2,895 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,823 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to natural-writing, differing in 63 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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