AugmentClaude

Russian Text Quality

Review and refine Russian writing for typography, style, and editorial standards.

Installation

  1. Make sure Claude is on your device and in your terminal.

    Skills load from ~/.claude/skills/ when Claude Code starts up — so you need it on your machine first. If you don't have it yet, install it once with the command below, then run claude in any terminal to verify.

    One-time setup
    npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

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  2. Paste into Claude Code or into your terminal.

    This copies the whole skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ru-text-talkstream/ — the SKILL.md plus any scripts, reference docs, or templates the skill ships with. Safe default: works for every skill.

    Faster alternative (instruction-only skills)

    Skips the clone and grabs only the SKILL.md file. Don't use this if the skill ships Python scripts, reference markdowns, or asset templates — they won't be downloaded and the skill will fail when it tries to load them.

    Quick install (SKILL.md only)
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  3. Restart Claude Code.

    Quit and reopen Claude Code (or any other agent that loads from ~/.claude/skills/). New skills are picked up on startup.

  4. Just ask Claude.

    Skills auto-activate when your request matches the skill's description — no slash command needed. Trigger phrases live in the skill's own frontmatter; you can read them in the “What this skill does” section above.

Prefer to read the source first? Open on GitHub.

When Claude uses it

Use when writing, editing, or reviewing Russian-language text, or when user mentions ru-text. Covers typography, info-style, editorial, UX writing, business correspondence. Auto-activates on Russian text output.

What this skill does

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.

RuleWrongCorrect
Primary quotes: guillemets"текст"«текст»
Nested quotes: lapki«"вложенные"»«„вложенные“»
Em dash with spacesслово - словослово — слово
En dash for ranges, no spaces10-15 дней10–15 дней
NBSP after single-letter prepositionsв начале (breakable)в\u00A0начале
Ellipsis: single character...
Digit groups with thin spaces10000001 000 000
Decimal comma (not dot)3.143,14
Ordinal with hyphen1ый, 2ой1-й, 2-й
Numero signNo. 5, #5№ 5
Abbreviations with NBSPт.д., т.е.т. д., т. е.
Ruble symbol after number1500 руб1 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-wordReplace with
является— (dash) or restructure
осуществлятьделать, проводить
в настоящее времясейчас
данныйэтот
определённый(name the specific thing)
произвести оплатуоплатить
высококачественный(name the specific quality)
был осуществлён(active voice + actor)
на сегодняшний деньсегодня
в целяхчтобы

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/<filename> If the path is not resolved, search: Glob("**/ru-text/references/scoring.md") and use the parent directory.

TaskFile
Writing/editing articles, blog posts, SEO, contentinfo-style.md
Interface text, buttons, errors, hints, microcopyux-writing.md
Emails, messenger, business correspondencebusiness-writing.md
Punctuation review, comma placementeditorial-punctuation.md
Grammar, capitalization, agreement, pleonasmseditorial-grammar.md
Finding and fixing text problems, diagnosticsanti-patterns.md
Text scoring, quality assessmentscoring.md
Credits, source attributionsources.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

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