elements-of-style
v1.0.0by obra · author: Jesse Vincent
Writing guidance based on William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style (1918)
What elements-of-style does, in the publisher's words
William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style (1918), packaged as a plugin for coding agents.
This plugin hands your agent Strunk's guidance whenever it writes documentation, commit messages, error text, or any other prose a human will read.
- Skill: writing-clearly-and-concisely: when and how to apply Strunk's rules
- Reference: the complete 1918 text, roughly 12,000 tokens
The reference covers:
- Elementary Rules of Usage: seven rules of grammar and punctuation
- Elementary Principles of Composition: eleven rules for clear, forceful writing
- Words and Expressions Commonly Misused: an alphabetical guide to usage pitfalls
From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized · Open the README on GitHub
- Skills
- 1
- MCP servers
- 0
- Stars
- 616
- License
- Public Domain
- Repo created
- 2025-10-14
- Last pushed
- 2026-08-12
- Publisher type
- User
- Version
- 1.0.0
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Skills · 1
- writing-clearly-and-concisely
- Apply Strunk's timeless writing rules to ANY prose humans will read, documentation, commit messages, error messages, explanations, reports, or UI text. Makes your writing clearer, stronger, and more professional.
Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.
Category
Documentation & Writing. Assigned by this directory. Agent Plugins 1.0.0 has no category field, so no manifest declares one.
Keywords
writing · style · grammar · composition · clarity
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