vale-ai-tells: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/review-prose-fix/SKILL.md

review-prose-fix is a skill for Claude Code from tbhb/vale-ai-tells. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,048 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review step for checking the result of a prose edit in a document. Prose means ordinary written text, and the review focuses on meaning and clarity rather than automated style checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a copy edit to inspect the changed document, compare the actual wording with the diff, and report issues the linter cannot score.
Why use it?
It catches problems that a prose linter cannot judge, such as changed meaning, unsupported claims, or text that no longer matches the intended document.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: background in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

This is tbhb/vale-ai-tells's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vale-ai-tells itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything vale-ai-tells configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tbhb/vale-ai-tells. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tbhb/vale-ai-tells/main/.claude/skills/review-prose-fix/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tbhb/vale-ai-tells

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,048 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 $0.00026 $0.01048
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00524
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00105

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5061db9a99d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-prose-fix 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.

.claude/skills/review-prose-fix/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review a prose fix

Judge what a copy edit did to a document. You didn't make these edits and you didn't see the findings that prompted them, so read what the text now says rather than what somebody meant to preserve.

The gates already ran. Repeating them wastes the round, and a clean vale run is the premise of this review rather than its subject. Your subject is everything vale can't score.

The repository

$ARGUMENTS

Treat the first word as the repository. A second word, when present, is the target file. Bind them once:

REPO="${ARGUMENTS%% *}"

Gather the inputs

From $REPO, run these before judging anything:

  • bash .claude/skills/fix-prose/scripts/check-suppressions.sh --diff for what changed
  • bash .claude/skills/fix-prose/scripts/check-suppressions.sh --verify for edits outside the target
  • cat the target for the result in one piece

The diff is the review. Where it comes back empty, the fixer changed nothing, and that's a finding unless its report said so.

Where the caller passed the fixer's report, read it too. A claim there that the diff doesn't support is a finding in itself.

What to check

Every finding names the exact text and the correction.

Meaning

The document says what it said before.

  • Flag any claim that changed. A dropped qualifier, an added hedge, or an absolute turned conditional edits the argument while looking like a reword.
  • Flag any number, path, identifier, filename, flag, or proper noun that differs. These are never a style matter.
  • Flag precision traded for a clean run. Replacing a dependency name with the fuzzing dependency clears a spelling rule and costs the reader the fact.
  • Flag a clause or sentence that went missing. Deleting text clears a distributional rule and takes content with it.

Language the linter can't score

The rule set names a few figurative verbs and misses the category around them.

  • Flag metaphor, idiom, and personification that the edit introduced. Rules don't fight, checks don't bite, and a document doesn't sail anywhere.
  • Flag a sentence that got longer without getting clearer. A reword that doubles a sentence to avoid a rule trades a measured problem for one nothing measures.
  • Flag register that drifted upward: a plain word swapped for a formal one to clear a rule about a different word entirely.
  • Flag anything the document didn't say before. Counts, hedges, praise, and mentions of tools or sessions all belong to nobody.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 101 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 5061db9a99d1

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review-prose-fix is a skill published in the GitHub repository tbhb/vale-ai-tells (93 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,048 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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