house-style-enforcer

house-style-enforcer is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,102 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A house-style checker compares copy with a publication’s own writing rules and lists every difference, the required form, and the relevant rule.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks wording, punctuation, titles, dates, quotations, and other style decisions before copy goes to layout.
Why use it?
It helps keep articles consistent when several writers or editors follow the same publication standards.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit It checks wording, punctuation, titles, dates, quotations, and other style decisions before copy goes to layout.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/house-style-enforcer
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill house-style-enforcer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,102 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 $0.00039 $0.02102
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01051
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00210

Measured 8d ago against content hash 102ebc9e9ac2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

house-style-enforcer 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 8d 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/magazine-journalism/editing/house-style-enforcer/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

House Style Enforcer

What This Skill Does

Reviews copy against a defined house style guide and returns a structured list of every deviation, with the correct form per the house style and a reference to the specific rule violated.

When To Use This Skill

  • You're editing a piece for a publication with a detailed house style and want to ensure full compliance before the piece goes to layout
  • A freelancer has submitted copy that needs to be brought into house style before editing
  • You're building or maintaining a house style guide and want to test-run it against real copy
  • You're onboarding a new writer and want to show them exactly how your style differs from AP or Chicago with annotated examples

What You Need To Provide

Required: The draft text (or section) to be reviewed; the house style rules to enforce (paste the relevant rules as a list — e.g., "We use single quotes, not double quotes for all quotations," "Job titles are lowercase when following a name," "Dates: day month year, no commas (15 March 2026)"). Optional: The broader style standard the house style is based on (e.g., "AP base, with the following overrides"); any known problem areas in this specific draft; whether you want a clean corrected version of the text in addition to the flagged list.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Maps each house style rule provided to its category (punctuation, capitalization, date/number format, quotation conventions, etc.) and applies each rule systematically to the full draft.
  2. Flags every instance where the draft deviates from the specified rule — including cases where the writer uses the correct form in some places but not others (inconsistency within the piece, not just violation of the rule).
  3. For each flagged item: quotes the original, gives the corrected form, and cites the specific rule it violates. If a rule could be interpreted two ways, flags the ambiguity and asks for clarification rather than making an arbitrary choice.
  4. Closes with a "Next Step" note: whether to request a clean corrected version of the full text, which writer tendency to note for future edits, and whether to run fact-check-prompt on the same piece for a complete pre-publication pass

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 8d ago First seen · 131 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 102ebc9e9ac2

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house-style-enforcer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,102 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-04.

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