Detailed Proofread Agent Skill

Detailed line-level proofread of grant documents — spelling, grammar, punctuation, figure/table reference integrity, typographic…

Context cost
2.7k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 10.9 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
not declarednone named by its author
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Detailed line-level proofread of grant documents — spelling, grammar, punctuation, figure/table reference integrity, typographic consistency (figure-reference styling, heading hierarchy, emphasis), letter-of-support reconciliation (every named collaborator, consultant, core, or site has a letter; every letter is referenced), abbreviation consistency, and numeric accuracy.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

productivity

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md10.9 kB · preview
--- name: grant-proofread-detail ---
6# Detailed Proofread
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8Line-level pass on near-final text. Run only after grant-proofread-structure — copyediting text that may still move is wasted work. Read _agent/project-config.md and _agent/style-profile.md; work through every document headed for submission, one at a time, in reading order.
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10## Checks per document
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12**Language.** Spelling (including field terms and gene/protein capitalization conventions), grammar, punctuation, subject-verb agreement in long sentences, dangling modifiers, tense consistency (proposed work in future/present per the style profile), singular/plural of data/criteria/spectra per the user's convention, and variant consistency — one spelling per term throughout ("healthcare/health care", "wildtype/wild-type", US vs UK spellings), resolved per the style profile.
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14**Voice and punctuation against the style profile.** The profile's closing *Directives* list is a checklist; verify each document against it item by item and report departures with the directive number. Punctuation constraints the profile records (em-dash limits, colon positions, serial comma, hyphenation) are counted, not judged — they are the constraints that drift most in text drafted across sessions, and the ones a reviewer registers as "not written by one person."
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16**Figures and tables.**
17- Every figure/table is cited in the text at least once, before or near its placement; every in-text citation ("Fig. 3B") points to a panel that exists and shows what the sentence claims.
18- Numbering is sequential without gaps or duplicates; caption numbering matches in-text numbering (drift here is the single most common late-edit casualty).
19- Captions are self-contained: system, n, error bars defined, statistical test named where stats are shown.
20- Legibility at print size: font in figures ≥ roughly 8pt equivalent at final scale; flag suspect panels for the user to check visually.
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22**Letters of support.** A cross-reference check with the same shape as the figure/table one, run across the assembled set rather than per document, because the two sides live in different files. Build two rosters: (a) every collaborator, consultant, core facility, shared instrument, subaward site, data provider, or partner organization named as contributing something in the narrative *and* the supporting documents — budget justification, facilities and resources, multi-PI plan, biosketch personal statements, timeline, human-subjects recruitment sites; (b) every signed letter (signed copies in 05_support_letters/signed/, assembled into 08_final_assembly/ under the FOA's attachment name), with _agent/notes/letter-tracker.md as the index. Then diff in both directions:
23- Every entity in (a) has a letter in (b). A resource the budget pays for or the Approach relies on with no letter is a Factor 3 gap reviewers notice; a late edit that added a core or a site is the usual cause.
24- Every letter in (b) is anchored to a specific mention in (a) — a signer whose role was cut from the Approach after the letter came in is the most common late-edit casualty, and an orphan letter invites "why is this person not a collaborator?"
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,506 words
Files1
Licencenot declared
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈190
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
2,535
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
1.4%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 14% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

2.7k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Middling. Fine to keep on in a project where you use it weekly, worth unloading in one where you never do.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 10.9 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md10.9 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Detailed Proofread · 2.7k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/detailed-proofread/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/detailed-proofread" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/detailed-proofread ] || { mv .claude/skills/detailed-proofread "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/detailed-proofread" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/detailed-proofread"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add joshua-d-campbell/detailed-proofread

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/detailed-proofread/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/detailed-proofread/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/detailed-proofread" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/detailed-proofread ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/detailed-proofread "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/detailed-proofread" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/detailed-proofread" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/detailed-proofread/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as grant-proofread-detail in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, detailed-proofread.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencejoshua-d-campbell/detailed-proofread

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