elements-of-style
Writing guidance based on William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style (1918)
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Writing guidance based on William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style (1918)
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- Plugins
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- obra
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- gemini
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- ferramentas
- Version
- 1.0.0
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- 574
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- 79
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- Last push
- 2026-08-12T21:49:28Z
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- 2026-08-30 14:13:39
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- 2026-08-30 14:13:39
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obra/the-elements-of-style
README
# The Elements of Style William Strunk Jr.'s *The Elements of Style* (1918), packaged as a plugin for coding agents. ## Purpose This plugin hands your agent Strunk's guidance whenever it writes documentation, commit messages, error text, or any other prose a human will read. ## What's Inside - **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: 1. **Elementary Rules of Usage** — seven rules of grammar and punctuation 2. **Elementary Principles of Composition** — eleven rules for clear, forceful writing 3. **Words and Expressions Commonly Misused** — an alphabetical guide to usage pitfalls ## Usage Your agent invokes `writing-clearly-and-concisely` when it writes prose. The skill lists every rule at a glance, warns that the reference costs about 12,000 tokens, and suggests handing a draft to a subagent when context runs short. It opens the full reference only while writing or editing. ## Installing <!-- everyharness:install:start --> | Harness | Install | |---|---| | Claude Code | see docs/install/claude-code.md | | Cursor | see docs/install/cursor.md | | Codex | see docs/install/codex.md | | Devin CLI | see docs/install/devin.md | | Kimi Code | see docs/install/kimi.md | | Gemini CLI | see docs/install/gemini.md | | OpenCode | see docs/install/opencode.md | | Pi | see docs/install/pi.md | | Hermes Agent | see docs/install/hermes.md | | Agent Plugins 1.0 clients | see docs/install/agent-plugins-1.0.md | | Factory Droid / Grok / Copilot (marketplace descriptor) | see docs/install/agents-marketplace.md | <!-- everyharness:install:end --> Every supported harness reads the skill from `skills/`; the per-harness manifests differ only in where they point. ## Development [everyharness](https://github.com/prime-radiant-inc/everyharness) generates every harness manifest, bootstrap hook, and install doc from one file: `everyharness.yaml`. Edit that file and the skill, then regenerate: ``` npx everyharness generate ``` Never edit a generated file by hand — `everyharness validate` fails on drift, and the next `generate` overwrites your change. Generated files carry a `GENERATED by everyharness` header, and `.everyharness/manifest.json` lists them all. ## Source The text is public domain. The 1918 edition came from Project Gutenberg, converted to markdown. - **Original source**: [Project Gutenberg #37134](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37134/37134-h/37134-h.htm) - **Author**: William Strunk Jr. - **Publication**: 1918 - **License**: Public Domain