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Best copy editing and proofreading skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that edit and proofread prose for clarity, grammar and style.
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Copy editing and proofreading skills, ranked

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Copy editing and proofreading skills, ranked
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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/baoyu-skills26k6 repos~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT26 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/watermarks-remover23k—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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/oh-story-claudecode7.3k3 repos~3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 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/Humanizer-zh19k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT14 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/baoyu-skills26k1 repo~3.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT26 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/natural-japanese1.9k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 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/stop-that-shit2.5k1 repo~902Automated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
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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/skillhub5.2k—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 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/aigc-reduce612—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 mo ago
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Proofread and lightly edit sorg Markdown content before publication.

brandur/sorg525—~571Automated safety check: PassMIT19 days ago
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Edits drafts to strip needless caveats, hedges and disclaimers while keeping the limits that matter for accuracy, ethics, law, safety and method.

Kiterlin/anti-defensive-writing815—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT6 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/im-not-ai5.9k—~4.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT11 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/oh-story-claudecode7.3k1 repo~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 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/inkos10k—~450Automated safety check: PassAGPL-3.010 days ago
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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/humanizer-ru186—~3.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT14 days ago
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Drafts and revises academic prose in the author's voice, repairs sentence flow, traces systems-paper claims to evidence and prepares reviewer responses.

donghuixin/AI-Vibe-Writing-Skills496—~616Automated safety check: PassMIT24 days ago
17

Obsidian house style for the wording of user-facing UI strings — command names, setting labels, button text, notices, modal copy.

aidenlx/zotlit1k—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0today
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/im-not-ai5.9k1 repo~510Automated safety check: PassMIT11 days ago
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Operate a running OpenPost instance through the openpost CLI.

getopenpost/openpost653—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0today
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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/chinese-style-guide119—~861Automated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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Beamer LaTeX slide workflow: create, compile, review, and polish academic presentations.

Noi1r/beamer-skill363—~13kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT1 mo ago
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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/public159—~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
23

Rewrites Korean commit messages that read like office jargon or translation into natural wording, leaving the type, scope and meaning untouched.

epoko77-ai/im-not-ai5.9k—~504Automated safety check: PassMIT11 days ago
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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/claude-code-ultimate-guide6.1k—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassCC-BY-SA-4.0today
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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/writing-dna-skill2.3k—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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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/im-not-ai5.9k1 repo~804Automated safety check: PassMIT11 days ago
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Two-stage academic paper polishing skill. An agent skill from ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write.

ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write207—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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Edits Chinese or English scholarly writing for natural phrasing and removes AI-sounding templated structure, while keeping claims, citations and author voice intact.

heise3/academic-deai209—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 days ago
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Writes, repairs and copyedits project docs against the Google developer documentation style guide, verifying claims in the repository before stating them.

bgauryy/octocode946—~2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 days ago
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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/paper-writing-skill232—~8.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
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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/sf-in-lean142—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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Sets writing rules for Chinese technical docs: short plain sentences, consistent typography and a checklist for removing AI-sounding filler.

leter/zh-tech-writing332—~656Automated safety check: PassMIT12 days ago
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Edit prose into a clear, specific, source-grounded version that preserves the author's meaning and voice.

udaysharmadev/Not-Ai128—~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
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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/fish-claude171—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
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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/oil-tone229—~517Automated safety check: PassMIT13 days ago
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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/character-arc577—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 days ago
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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/game-the-llm-reviewer203—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT14 days ago
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Full Russian text quality check against the whole corpus. An agent skill from talkstream/ru-text.

talkstream/ru-text2511 repo~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 days ago
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When the user wants to edit, review, or improve existing marketing copy.

freekmurze/dotfiles1k24 repos~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassNo licenceyesterday
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/official-document-drafting139—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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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/legal-skills713—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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Publish proofread VDJdb chunks through dev, reconcile publication issues, preserve record identity, keep validation changes separate, and close completed imports while tracking unresolved…

antigenomics/vdjdb-db157—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
43

Create a new ButterCut library. An agent skill from barefootford/buttercut.

barefootford/buttercut601—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown14 days ago
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Publish-readiness review for blog posts — content, structure, flow, typos, demos, code, SEO, facts, and STYLEGUIDE compliance.

KittyGiraudel/site102—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 days ago
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Polishes AI-generated web novel text to remove machine-sounding patterns, with rewriting strategies, instruction templates, style techniques and before-and-after examples.

uu201/character-arc5771 repo~508Automated safety check: PassMIT4 days ago
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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/reviewer222—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 days ago
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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/Supervisor-Skills8.4k—~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassCC-BY-NC-SA-4.01 mo ago
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Produce readable vertical shorts with evidence-based B-roll, three opening treatments, editorial review, and authorized Metricool API delivery.

ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills3.6k—~701Automated safety check: PassMIT14 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.