ru-text

Russian text quality — typography, info-style, editorial, UX writing, business correspondence, and AI-text cleanup

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 with spaces	слово - слово	слово — слово
En dash for ranges, no spaces	10-15 дней	10–15 дней
NBSP after single-letter prepositions	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 symbol after number	1500 руб	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, – 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
• Ellipsis: … (single char)
• Abbreviations: т. д., т. п. (with NBSP)
• No double spaces, no space before punctuation