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Best copy editing and proofreading skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reformats plain text or Markdown articles with frontmatter, a title, a summary, headings, bold, lists and code blocks, and saves a separate formatted copy. | JimLiu/ | 26k | 6 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 26 days ago |
| 2 | Audits prose for invisible Unicode characters and rewrites it while keeping facts, citations, code and required disclosures unchanged and the writer's voice intact. | guillaumemeyer/ | 23k | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 3 | Reviews Chinese web-novel text with several reviewer agents in parallel, falling back to a single-agent pass, and reports structure, character, prose and setting problems with fixes. | zenstory-ai/ | 7.3k | 3 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 4 | Edits Chinese articles, comments and documents to remove filler, repetition and template phrasing while keeping the facts, the level of certainty and the author's voice. | op7418/ | 19k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 5 | Translates articles and files in quick, normal or refined mode, with a custom glossary, saved preferences and a review-and-polish workflow for publication quality. | JimLiu/ | 26k | 1 repo | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 26 days ago |
| 6 | Writes and edits Japanese business documents so they read clearly and naturally, removes AI-sounding phrasing and can score how AI-like a text reads. | coji/ | 1.9k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 7 | Cuts defensive disclaimers, stacked hedging and self-protective narration from proposals and summaries, keeping only limits that affect the reader's decision. | lennney/ | 2.5k | 1 repo | ~902 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 8 | Audits and rewrites formulaic, AI-sounding prose while keeping facts, voice and format, using a local Python scorer and inspect-only, rewrite or embedded-gate modes. | iflytek/ | 5.2k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 9 | Reduces the AI-text detection rate of academic papers by scanning for templated phrasing and making small deterministic edits that keep citations, data and terminology. | xiaofenggan01/ | 612 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 10 | Proofread and lightly edit sorg Markdown content before publication. | brandur/ | 525 | — | ~571 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 19 days ago |
| 11 | Edits drafts to strip needless caveats, hedges and disclaimers while keeping the limits that matter for accuracy, ethics, law, safety and method. | Kiterlin/ | 815 | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 12 | Rewrites Korean text written by AI so it reads like a human wrote it, detecting translationese and other AI patterns while leaving the content untouched. | epoko77-ai/ | 5.9k | — | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 11 days ago |
| 13 | Rewrites AI-sounding Chinese web novel text so it reads naturally, changing as little as possible and keeping plot, names and numbers intact. | zenstory-ai/ | 7.3k | 1 repo | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 14 | Reviews chapters or manuscripts against the standard that fits their genre, audience and your own criteria, showing concrete issues and revising only when asked. | Narcooo/ | 10k | — | ~450 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 10 days ago |
| 15 | Edits Russian text to remove signs of AI generation, bureaucratic phrasing and filler while keeping facts, with a lint script and a detect-only mode. | smixs/ | 186 | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 16 | Drafts and revises academic prose in the author's voice, repairs sentence flow, traces systems-paper claims to evidence and prepares reviewer responses. | donghuixin/ | 496 | — | ~616 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 24 days ago |
| 17 | 17.I18n UI Text Obsidian house style for the wording of user-facing UI strings — command names, setting labels, button text, notices, modal copy. | aidenlx/ | 1k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 18 | Finds the telltale patterns of AI-written Korean text and rewrites style, rhythm and wording so it reads as human, leaving the content unchanged. | epoko77-ai/ | 5.9k | 1 repo | ~510 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 11 days ago |
| 19 | 19.Openpost CLI Operate a running OpenPost instance through the openpost CLI. | getopenpost/ | 653 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 20 | This skill should be used when the user asks to "写文档", "撰写文章", "写邮件", "编辑中文", "检查格式", "修正排版", "中英文混排", "格式化文档", "review 文档格式", "proofread", or when the user is preparing to write or edit Chinese… | RightCapitalHQ/ | 119 | — | ~861 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 21 | 21.Beamer Beamer LaTeX slide workflow: create, compile, review, and polish academic presentations. | Noi1r/ | 363 | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 22 | Builds Social Income's monthly newsletter HTML (website/emails/newsletter/YYYY-MM-newsletter.html) from the latest entry in the "Proofreading" tab of the Monthly Updates Google Doc. | socialincome-san/ | 159 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 23 | Rewrites Korean commit messages that read like office jargon or translation into natural wording, leaving the type, scope and meaning untouched. | epoko77-ai/ | 5.9k | — | ~504 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 11 days ago |
| 24 | Adds two to four sentences of intro prose before each bare heading in the French and English whitepapers, splitting the work across nine parallel agents. | FlorianBruniaux/ | 6.1k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | today |
| 25 | Rewrites only the sentences that match an explicit whitelist of AI writing tells, leaving everything else, including document structure and unmatched text, exactly as written. | larashero3-dotcom/ | 2.3k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 26 | Scores how AI-written a Korean text reads by testing six signals, then shows sample before-and-after fixes in the chat without creating files. | epoko77-ai/ | 5.9k | 1 repo | ~804 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 11 days ago |
| 27 | 27.Sci Polish Two-stage academic paper polishing skill. An agent skill from ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write. | ShZhao27208/ | 207 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 28 | Edits Chinese or English scholarly writing for natural phrasing and removes AI-sounding templated structure, while keeping claims, citations and author voice intact. | heise3/ | 209 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 29 | Writes, repairs and copyedits project docs against the Google developer documentation style guide, verifying claims in the repository before stating them. | bgauryy/ | 946 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 30 | Guides research paper writing with a five-stage pipeline, editorial and voice rules from a systems lab, and per-paper context, from brainstorming to compression. | SNL-UCSB/ | 232 | — | ~8.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 31 | 31.Proofread Drive a two-round editing pass over one SFL chapter — round 1 is low-level grammar, punctuation, usage, and markup; round 2 fixes the higher-level flow, ordering, and consistency problems found… | plclub/ | 142 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 32 | Sets writing rules for Chinese technical docs: short plain sentences, consistent typography and a checklist for removing AI-sounding filler. | leter/ | 332 | — | ~656 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 12 days ago |
| 33 | 33.Not AI Edit prose into a clear, specific, source-grounded version that preserves the author's meaning and voice. | udaysharmadev/ | 128 | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 34 | Strips GPT-5.4 verbal tics from AI-written text and keeps them out of new READMEs, specs and proposals, with detailed rules for Chinese writing. | makoMakoGo/ | 171 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 35 | Chinese-language style guide that keeps articles, scripts and product copy natural, readable and fact-grounded, with a lint script that flags tired phrasing. | oil-oil/ | 229 | — | ~517 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 13 days ago |
| 36 | Finds and rewrites AI-sounding passages in Chinese web novel text, changing as few words as possible while keeping plot, characters and names intact. | uu201/ | 577 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 37 | Applies small, meaning-preserving rhetorical edits to a finished manuscript so wording does not trigger known LLM reviewer penalties, and delivers a change note. | Michael-Jiahao-Zhang/ | 203 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 38 | 38.Ru Check Full Russian text quality check against the whole corpus. An agent skill from talkstream/ru-text. | talkstream/ | 251 | 1 repo | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 39 | 39.Copy Editing When the user wants to edit, review, or improve existing marketing copy. | freekmurze/ | 1k | 24 repos | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 40 | Drafts, rewrites and standardizes Chinese official documents and formal reports such as notices, requests and meeting minutes, and exports the result to Word. | zhaohui-yang/ | 139 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 41 | Detects and rewrites machine-sounding patterns in the body text of Chinese articles while keeping the author's facts, headings and legal terms intact. | cat-xierluo/ | 713 | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 42 | Publish proofread VDJdb chunks through dev, reconcile publication issues, preserve record identity, keep validation changes separate, and close completed imports while tracking unresolved… | antigenomics/ | 157 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 43 | Create a new ButterCut library. An agent skill from barefootford/buttercut. | barefootford/ | 601 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 14 days ago |
| 44 | Publish-readiness review for blog posts — content, structure, flow, typos, demos, code, SEO, facts, and STYLEGUIDE compliance. | KittyGiraudel/ | 102 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 45 | Polishes AI-generated web novel text to remove machine-sounding patterns, with rewriting strategies, instruction templates, style techniques and before-and-after examples. | uu201/ | 577 | 1 repo | ~508 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 46 | 46.Review Paper Review an attached academic economics paper PDF with independent specialist audits and a complete evidence-grounded report, resume an interrupted paper review, or export a completed Reviewer report… | Ingar30/ | 222 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 47 | Polishes academic prose without changing its meaning: grammar and flow fixes, tone matched to the evidence, AI-tone removal and Chinese-to-English rewriting for submission. | HKUSTDial/ | 8.4k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 48 | Produce readable vertical shorts with evidence-based B-roll, three opening treatments, editorial review, and authorized Metricool API delivery. | ericosiu/ | 3.6k | — | ~701 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best copy editing and proofreading skill?
Markdown Article Formatter from JimLiu/baoyu-skills ranks first of the 154 copy editing and proofreading skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 26k GitHub stars, 6 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 3.5k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come User-Facing Text Cleanup and Story Multi-Perspective Review.
Which copy editing and proofreading skills are official?
1 of the 154 copy editing and proofreading skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Databricks AI Functions.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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