Elements of Style
Strunk's classic writing rules as an agent skill for clear, concise prose.
About
William Strunk Jr.'s 1918 Elements of Style, converted into an agent skill so coding agents can apply its rules to docs, comments, and prose. It covers the full reference — elementary rules of usage, principles of composition, and commonly misused words — in about twelve thousand tokens. Install it from the Superpowers marketplace. It's a reference text, not a workflow: it makes your agent's writing tighter, but it won't plan or review anything for you.
What it can do
- Full Elements of Style reference text
- Rules for usage, composition, and diction
- Guidance on omitting needless words
- Commonly misused words and expressions
- Applies to docs, comments, and prose
Setup
- Add the marketplace: /plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace
- Install: /plugin install elements-of-style@superpowers-marketplace
- The writing-clearly-and-concisely skill loads when writing tasks come up.
- Ask the agent to apply it: "tighten this README using the elements of style."
Prerequisites
Claude Code with plugin support.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 598 GitHub stars; source text is public domain (1918), conversion is the value-add; Install path via Superpowers marketplace corroborated in marketplace docs; Reference text, not a workflow — scope is honestly limited to writing guidance; Maintained by the Superpowers author (obra/Prime Radiant). License: Source text is public domain; skill packaging by the repo author.
★ 598 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · 598 GitHub stars; source text is public domain (1918), conversion is the value-add
- · Install path via Superpowers marketplace corroborated in marketplace docs
- · Reference text, not a workflow — scope is honestly limited to writing guidance
- · Maintained by the Superpowers author (obra/Prime Radiant)
Sources
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