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 style (casual, academic, SEO, literary), their prompt overrides these default rules where they conflict. The instructions' own typography is not a style request.

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.

Someone else's words stay theirs: quoted material, code blocks and third-party text inside the user's document are reproduced as-is. Report an issue you see in them if it matters; never rewrite them.

Always-On: Typography

Apply to ALL Russian text output — silently: fix, don't announce.

| Rule | Wrong | Correct | |---|---|---| | Primary quotes: guillemets | "текст" | «текст» | | Nested quotes: lapki | «"вложенные"» | «„вложенные“» | | Em dash, NBSP before it | слово - слово | слово — слово | | En dash for ranges, no spaces | 10-15 дней | 10–15 дней | | NBSP after single-letter words | 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 sign after number, NBSP | 1500₽ | 1 500 ₽ | | Percent glued (non-GOST) | 100 % | 100% |

Full typography reference: references/typography.md

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

Top Stop-Words (when writing or editing on request)

| 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 (92 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.

| 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 (NBSP before it), – in ranges, - only in compounds; max 1–2 per paragraph (a parallel row counts as one, dialogue dashes as none); trim to the limit, not to zero; edit a row whole or not at all
[ ] NBSP after в, к, с, о, у, и, а, я
[ ] Ellipsis: … (single char)
[ ] No double spaces, no space before punctuation