strunk-writing-quality

strunk-writing-quality is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from iurysza/android-use. It costs 27 tokens per session (3,450 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide based on William Strunk Jr.'s style rules. It helps make prose clear, concise, direct, and easy to understand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or editing messages, reports, research summaries, guidance, documentation, or Markdown files.
Why use it?
Drafts often contain unnecessary words, unclear wording, or sentences that make the reader work too hard. This provides rules for tightening and clarifying them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when writing or editing messages, reports, research summaries, guidance, documentation, or Markdown files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iurysza/android-use/strunk-writing-quality
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 iurysza/android-use --skill strunk-writing-quality
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iurysza/android-use

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,450 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 $0.00027 $0.03450
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.01380
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00690
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00345

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0524210ee1ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strunk-writing-quality 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/strunk-writing-quality/SKILL.md · 355 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 355 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strunk Writing Quality

Apply William Strunk Jr.'s principles from The Elements of Style to improve any piece of prose. This skill enforces clarity, concision, and vigor through specific, actionable rules.

For reports, research write-ups, guidance, documentation and summaries, use references/report-writing-style.md.

Philosophy

Good writing is clear, concise, and vigorous. Every rule exists to serve the reader. Strunk's core tenets:

  1. Clarity above all — The reader must understand exactly what the writer means
  2. Every word must tell — Vigorous writing is concise; omit needless words
  3. Reader service — Every construction should aid comprehension and engagement
  4. Mastery before deviation — Learn the rules thoroughly before breaking them; any violation must be purchased with "compensating merit"
  5. Form serves meaning — Punctuation, formatting, and spelling carry semantic weight
  6. Consistency with authority — Follow established conventions unless context demands otherwise

The mature writer knows the rules well enough to break them with purpose and payoff.

Core Principles

1. Be Concise

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences.

Bloated Concise
the question as to whether whether
there is no doubt but that no doubt / doubtless
used for fuel purposes used for fuel
he is a man who he
in a hasty manner hastily
owing to the fact that since / because
in spite of the fact that though / although

Avoid: "the fact that" in all its forms. Replace with direct nouns or verbs:

  • "the fact that he had not succeeded" → "his failure"
  • "the fact that I had arrived" → "my arrival"

Cut redundant words: If a word adds no meaning, remove it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 355 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 355 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 0524210ee1ca

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strunk-writing-quality is a skill published in the GitHub repository iurysza/android-use (21 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 3,450 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-15.

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