write-well
Prose quality checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, grounded in William Zinsser''s *On Writing Well* (30th Anniversary Edition). Checks for clutter, weak verbs, hollow qualifiers, clichés, inflated academic voice, poor leads and endings, pronoun and tense inconsistency, and unclear explanation.
Install / Use
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill write-wellInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Content & MediaSupported Platforms
Our assessment of write-well
write-well scores 87/100 on our quality scale, 320th of 622 Content & Media skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 4,360 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so write-well is actively maintained.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 88/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
write-well compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than write-well; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| write-well (this skill)by brycewang-stanford | 87 | 4.4k | 4d ago | SKILL.md |
| LocalAIby mudler | 100 | 49.3k | today | MCP Server |
| siyuanby siyuan-note | 100 | 46.5k | today | MCP Server |
| algorithmic-artby anthropics | 100 | 177.9k | 5d ago | SKILL.md |
| pptxby anthropics | 100 | 177.9k | 5d ago | SKILL.md |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install write-well?
- Run
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill write-well. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does write-well work with?
- It is written for Zed, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is write-well safe to use?
- It declares no license and scores 88/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is write-well still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so write-well is actively maintained.
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From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.
