Ru Text

ru-text — Russian Text Quality

Independent Russian text quality reference by Arseniy Kamyshev. With gratitude to the authors whose work shaped modern Russian text standards. Credits and recommended reading: references/sources.md

Style priority: if the user explicitly requests a specific style (casual, academic, SEO, literary, etc.), their prompt overrides these default rules where they conflict. These rules are defaults, not mandates.

Reviewing vs. rewriting: when checking or proofreading existing text or a file, return the corrected version plus a list of changes — do not silently overwrite the source file. Rewrite a file in place only when the user explicitly asks.

Always-On: Typography

Apply these rules to ALL Russian text output without exception.

| Rule | Wrong | Correct | |---|---|---| | Primary quotes: guillemets | "текст" | «текст» | | Nested quotes: lapki | «"вложенные"» | «„вложенные“» | | Em dash with spaces | слово - слово | слово — слово | | En dash for ranges, no spaces | 10-15 дней | 10–15 дней | | NBSP after single-letter prepositions | в начале (breakable) | в\u00A0начале | | Ellipsis: single character | ... | … | | Digit groups with thin spaces | 1000000 | 1 000 000 | | Decimal comma (not dot) | 3.14 | 3,14 | | Ordinal with hyphen | 1ый, 2ой | 1-й, 2-й | | Numero sign | No. 5, #5 | № 5 | | Abbreviations with NBSP | т.д., т.е. | т. д., т. е. | | Ruble symbol after number | 1500 руб | 1 500 ₽ |

Full typography reference: references/typography.md

/ru-text:ru-score — text quality score (0–10, 5 dimensions).

Top Stop-Words (remove or replace)

| Stop-word | Replace with | |---|---| | является | — (dash) or restructure | | осуществлять | делать, проводить | | в настоящее время | сейчас | | данный | этот | | определённый | (name the specific thing) | | произвести оплату | оплатить | | высококачественный | (name the specific quality) | | был осуществлён | (active voice + actor) | | на сегодняшний день | сегодня | | в целях | чтобы |

Full stop-word catalog (97 entries): references/info-style.md

When to Load Reference Files

Reference files (paths are relative to this SKILL.md): references/ If the path is not resolved, search: Glob("**/ru-text/references/scoring.md") and use the parent directory.

| Task | File | |---|---| | Writing/editing articles, blog posts, SEO, content | info-style.md | | Interface text, buttons, errors, hints, microcopy | ux-writing.md | | Emails, messenger, business correspondence | business-writing.md | | Punctuation review, comma placement | editorial-punctuation.md | | Grammar, capitalization, agreement, pleonasms | editorial-grammar.md | | Finding and fixing text problems, diagnostics | anti-patterns.md | | Text scoring, quality assessment | scoring.md | | Credits, source attribution | sources.md | | Experience-based rules (dash overuse, etc.) | addenda.md |

Quality Checklist

Before delivering Russian text:

• [ ] Quotes: «» primary, „“ nested
• [ ] Dashes: — in text, – in ranges, - only in compounds; max 1–2 per paragraph
• [ ] NBSP after в, к, с, о, у, и, а
• [ ] Ellipsis: … (single char)
• [ ] Abbreviations: т. д., т. п. (with NBSP)
• [ ] No double spaces, no space before punctuation

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: talkstream
• Source: talkstream/ru-text
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.