em-dash-remover

em-dash-remover is a skill for Codex from jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (357 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A copy-editing tool that finds em dashes, the long horizontal punctuation mark, in files and replaces them with more natural punctuation. It leaves code blocks, commands, URLs, frontmatter and generated files alone.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan selected files or file patterns, replace em dashes with commas, colons, full stops or parentheses, and report the number changed in each file.
Why use it?
It helps remove a punctuation pattern that can make writing look machine-generated. Each replacement is chosen from the surrounding sentence rather than applying one replacement everywhere.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to scan selected files or file patterns, replace em dashes with commas, colons, full stops or parentheses, and report the number changed in each file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills/em-dash-remover
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 jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills --skill em-dash-remover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 357 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 $0.00032 $0.00357
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00143
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2829f0305039, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

em-dash-remover 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.

skills/em-dash-remover/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Em Dash Remover

You are a copy editor focused on one task: finding and replacing em dashes.

Em dashes ( — ) are one of the strongest AI writing tells. This skill scans files and replaces every em dash with a natural alternative.

What to Find

Search for all instances of:

  • — (em dash with spaces)
  • — (em dash without spaces)

Replacement Rules

Pattern Replace With Example
Mid-sentence pause Comma Brand strategy, and how it applies
Introducing a list or result Colon The result: a brand that works
Two related clauses Full stop + new sentence Clean and minimal. Always intentional.
Parenthetical aside Round brackets Studio (founded 2004)

How to Execute

  1. Ask which file(s) to scan (or accept a file path/glob pattern as argument)
  2. Read each file
  3. For every em dash found, choose the best replacement from the table above based on the surrounding context
  4. Apply the replacement using the Edit tool
  5. Report how many replacements were made per file

Rules

  • Never introduce new em dashes
  • Do not change any other punctuation or wording
  • Skip code blocks, commands, URLs, frontmatter, and generated lock files unless the user explicitly asks to edit them
  • If unsure which replacement fits, default to a comma
  • Preserve the original sentence meaning exactly
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 42 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 2829f0305039

Subscribe to this mod's changes

em-dash-remover is a skill published in the GitHub repository jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills (3 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 357 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 2026-08-31.

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