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.

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 ₽ |

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)
• [ ] Abbreviations: т. д., т. п. (with NBSP)
• [ ] No double spaces, no space before punctuation