Ru Check

Russian Text Quality Check

Review the text provided in $ARGUMENTS (or the most recent Russian text output if no arguments) using the ru-text skill.

Where the reference files live

This skill reads the corpus that ships with the ru-text skill, which is installed alongside it. Locate that folder once, then read the named files from it:

• Look for a directory named references whose parent directory is named ru-text, and which contains info-style.md. Every file named below sits in that folder.
• Search with file tools, never with a shell. Glob on a pattern like **/ru-text/references/info-style.md, or whatever file search the host offers, then Read. This command has no use for a command line: Bash is on its disallowed-tools list, and hosts that do not implement that field still refuse it — measured in Claude Cowork on 12.08.2026, where an opening ls returned «Permission to use Bash has been denied» in red before the search found the corpus anyway. The call bought nothing and cost the reader a scare.
• In Claude Code the plugin root is also available directly, which saves the search.
• Do not guess a path. If the folder cannot be found, say so and stop — a check run against remembered rules instead of the corpus is not this command, and reporting one as the other is the failure this whole product exists to prevent.

Two depths, one command

This check runs at one of two depths. Nobody chooses a depth; these rules do.

Full — the «Check order» below, whole. Run it whenever a person asked for this check («вычитай», «прогони ru-text», a gate that names ru-text, a golden-set run) or triage escalated. An explicit request is never answered with triage.

Triage — for self-initiated runs only: you produced or encountered Russian text and are checking it out of discipline, with no instruction naming ru-text. Load three things and nothing else:

1. The ru-text SKILL.md — its inline typography table and top stop-words. Skip if it is already in context, which on an always-on host it usually is.
2. The «Neuroslop index» section of addenda.md: from the ## Neuroslop index heading to the next ##. Not the rest of the file — the rest is ten times the size.
3. Section «B. Каталог стоп-слов» of info-style.md: from its ## B. heading to the next ##. Not the rest of the file.

Then check the text: typography mechanically (straight quotes, a hyphen doing a dash's work, ... for an ellipsis, a space between a number and %, an ordinary space after в, к, с, о, у, и, а, я — verify by codepoint, not by eye); catalog stop-words including inflected forms, judging every candidate line yourself («данные» the noun is not «данный» the stop-word); index tells by eye.

Triage may report only what a single line decides: typography and confirmed catalog hits. A neuroslop tell is never a triage finding. Every AD rule carries carve-outs that live only in the full file, and «не X, а Y» with a real antecedent is ordinary prose — flagging it from an index alone is the false positive this command would lose the most trust for. A tell seen in triage is an escalation trigger and nothing else.

Escalate to full when any one of these holds: a neuroslop candidate appeared · five findings are confirmed · the text is bound for a reader (a deliverable, a publication, a client). Escalating is silent — continue into the full procedure as though it had been asked for.

A triage report names itself: «Быстрая проверка: типографика и стоп-слова. Полная вычитка по корпусу не выполнялась.» Reporting triage as the full check is the failure this product exists to prevent. No search tool on this host → no triage: run the full check.

Check order

1. Typography — read typography.md, then apply:

   • Quotes: «» primary, „“ nested
   • Dashes: — (em) in text, – (en) in ranges, - (hyphen) in compounds only
   • Spaces: NBSP after single-letter words, in digit groups, before units — but % is glued to the number (R37: 100%, not 100 %). Report it with the reason the rule gives: an ordinary space is a line break point and leaves % alone on the next line
   • Ellipsis, abbreviations, special characters

2. Anti-patterns — read anti-patterns.md, then scan for:

   • Bureaucratic language and nominalization
   • Passive voice overuse
   • Sentence bloat
   • Tautology and pleonasm

3. Writing quality — read info-style.md, then apply:

   • Stop-words and filler
   • Specificity and facts
   • Structure and clarity

4. Domain-specific — load if text type is identifiable:

   • UI/interface text → ux-writing.md
   • Email/business → business-writing.md
   • Needs grammar review → editorial-punctuation.md + editorial-grammar.md

5. Experience-based / neuroslop — read addenda.md, then scan for the AI-generated-prose tells:

   • Manufactured antithesis (AD-6) — «не X, а Y» / «не просто X, а Y» with no antecedent
   • Preemptive virtue qualifier (AD-7) — «без воды», «чётко, по делу»
   • Assistant-register meta-commentary (AD-8) — «Отличный вопрос!», «Надеюсь, это помогло»
   • Hollow openers (AD-9) — «давайте разберёмся», «погрузимся», «важно понимать, что»
   • Declared sincerity (AD-10) — «честный разбор», «давайте будем честны»: honesty predicated of the piece. The same reflex on a single statement — «скажу честно: дедлайн сорван» — is AD-7
   • Mandatory tricolon (AD-11) — «инновационный, трансформирующий, прорывной»
   • Hollowed mechanism (AD-12) — «зависит от различных факторов», «свои особенности»
   • Phantom attribution (AD-13) — «исследования показывают», «эксперты отмечают»
   • Chat transcript as the artifact (AD-14) — the document's skeleton is a dialogue
   • Search-engine addressee (AD-15) — the query phrase repeated where a pronoun would serve
   • Additive pseudo-pair (AD-16) — «не только X, но и Y» where Y adds nothing
   • Comma welded to a dash (AD-17) — a comma and an em dash side by side inside one sentence, both demanded by the same construction: «Отчёт, собранный за ночь, — на столе». Search by codepoint: the gap between the marks is normally the NBSP R16/R44 require before a dash, so a search written with an ordinary space finds nothing in correctly typeset text. Direct speech («Сроки поедут», — предупредила Петрова) is two constructions meeting, and a comma closing homogeneous subordinate clauses before the main clause forms a single mark with the dash — different grounds, same outcome: never this rule
   • Uppercase band (AD-18) — three or more consecutive uppercase Cyrillic words of two letters or more, unbroken by a lowercase word or by a line break. Not a neuroslop tell, and it is absent from the index above on purpose: a person shouts on a keyboard with no italic key, a model does not. It belongs to this full pass and to nothing faster. One or two uppercase words are deliberate emphasis and are never flagged; abbreviations, machine text, status cells and headings do not count toward the run

   The list above is a prompt for the eye, not the rule set. Two of these — AD-14 and AD-15 — are charged to the document, so ask them of the piece as a whole and not of any one sentence. Every rule has carve-outs that decide as many cases as the triggers do; they are in addenda.md, and a finding raised without checking them is the false positive this command costs the most trust for.