Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills --skill grammar-style-checkergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/grammar-style-checker)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/grammar-style-checker"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/grammar-style-checker/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/grammar-style-checker"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/grammar-style-checker.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.02324 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01162 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00465 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00232 |
Grade A, and why
grammar-style-checker 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Grammar & Style Checker
Academic grammar transcends basic syntactic correctness — it encompasses tone, voice, precision, and the deployment of inclusive, unambiguous language. Careless sentence construction introduces ambiguity, distracts readers, and fatally impedes scholarly communication.
1. Voice — Active vs. Passive
When to Use Active Voice
- APA 7th explicitly recommends active voice for clarity
- Best for: describing what researchers did, making your argument clear
- "We conducted semi-structured interviews with 30 participants." ✓
When to Use Passive Voice
- Appropriate in STEM when the focus should be on the procedure/phenomenon, not the researcher
- "Samples were collected and stored at −20°C." ✓
- Appropriate when the agent is unknown or irrelevant
- Appropriate for impersonal academic constructions
The Test
Ask: Who is doing the action? If the actor matters, use active. If the phenomenon or action matters more, use passive.
2. Tense Conventions by Section
| Section | Tense | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction — general facts | Present | "Anxiety affects approximately 18% of the adult population." |
| Introduction — specific past studies | Past | "Smith (2019) found that..." |
| Methods | Past | "Data were collected using..." |
| Results | Past | "Results indicated that..." |
| Discussion — interpreting your findings | Present for interpretation | "These findings suggest that..." |
| Discussion — your specific results | Past | "The present study found that..." |
| Conclusion — implications | Present | "These results have significant implications for..." |
| Literature review — established findings | Present | "Research consistently demonstrates..." |
| Literature review — specific study | Past | "Jones (2020) reported..." |
Key rule: Never mix tenses randomly within a section. Choose appropriately and be consistent.
3. Parallel Structure
All items in a series, list, or comparison must share the same grammatical form.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 223 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d3dbc81a271c
grammar-style-checker is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,324 tokens. 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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