/ru-check

name: ru-check
description: >
  Full Russian text quality check against the whole corpus. Triggers: вычитай, вычитай через
  ru-text, прогони ru-text, проверь текст по ru-text, ru-check, полная вычитка. Use when the
  user asks to proofread Russian text, or when a project gate names ru-text. Returns findings
  with the rule behind each and a proposed replacement; never edits a file. Self-initiated
  runs start with a fast triage and escalate on evidence; an explicit request always runs the
  full corpus.
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob
disallowed-tools: Write, Edit, NotebookEdit, Bash, PowerShell, Monitor
context: fork
model: sonnet
effort: medium
user-invocable: true

Russian Text Quality Check

Review the text provided in $ARGUMENTS (or the most recent Russian text output if no arguments) using the ru-text skill.

Where the reference files live

This skill reads the corpus that ships with the **ru-text** skill, which is installed alongside it. Locate that folder once, then read the named files from it:

• Look for a directory named `references` whose parent directory is named `ru-text`, and

which contains `info-style.md`. Every file named below sits in that folder.

• **Search with file tools, never with a shell.** `Glob` on a pattern like

`**/ru-text/references/info-style.md`, or whatever file search the host offers, then `Read`. This command has no use for a command line: `Bash` is on its `disallowed-tools` list, and hosts that do not implement that field still refuse it — measured in Claude Cowork on 12.08.2026, where an opening `ls` returned «Permission to use Bash has been denied» in red before the search found the corpus anyway. The call bought nothing and cost the reader a scare.

• In Claude Code the folder is `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../ru-text/references/` — `Read`

`info-style.md` there first and skip the search. If that path arrives unexpanded or the read fails, fall back to the search above.

• **Do not guess a path.** If the folder cannot be found, say so and stop — a check run

against remembered rules instead of the corpus is not this command, and reporting one as the other is the failure this whole product exists to prevent.

Two depths, one command

This check runs at one of two depths. Nobody chooses a depth; these rules do.

**Full** — the «Check order» below, whole. Run it whenever a person asked for this check («вычитай», «прогони ru-text», a gate that names ru-text, a golden-set run) or triage escalated. An explicit request is never answered with triage.

**Triage** — for self-initiated runs only: you produced or encountered Russian text and are checking it out of discipline, with no instruction naming ru-text. Load three things and nothing else:

1. The ru-text `SKILL.md` — its inline typography table and top stop-words. Skip if it is already in context, which on an always-on host it usually is. 2. The «Neuroslop index» section of `addenda.md`: from the `## Neuroslop index` heading to the next `##`. Not the rest of the file — the rest is ten times the size. 3. Section «B. Каталог стоп-слов» of `info-style.md`: from its `## B.` heading to the next `##`. Not the rest of the file.

Then check the text: typography mechanically (straight quotes, a hyphen doing a dash's work, `...` for an ellipsis, a space between a number and `%`, an ordinary space after в, к, с, о, у, и, а, я — verify by codepoint, not by eye); catalog stop-words including inflected forms, judging every candidate line yourself («данные» the noun is not «данный» the stop-word); index tells by eye.

Triage may **report** only what a single line decides: typography and confirmed catalog hits. **A neuroslop tell is never a triage finding.** Every AD rule carries carve-outs that live only in the full file, and «не X, а Y» with a real antecedent is ordinary prose — flagging it from an index alone is the false positive this command would lose the most trust for. A tell seen in triage is an escalation trigger and nothing else.

**Escalate to full** when any one of these holds: a neuroslop candidate appeared · five findings are confirmed · the text is bound for a reader (a deliverable, a publication, a client). Escalating is silent — continue into the full procedure as though it had been asked for.

A triage report names itself: «Быстрая проверка: типографика и стоп-слова. Полная вычитка по корпусу не выполнялась.» Reporting triage as the full check is the failure this product exists to prevent. No search tool on this host → no triage: run the full check.

Check order

1. **Typography** — read `typography.md`, then apply:

• Quotes: «» primary, „“ nested
• Dashes: — (em) in text, – (en) in ranges, - (hyphen) in compounds only
• Spaces: NBSP after single-letter words, in digit groups, before units — but `%` is glued to

the number in general and web text (R37: `100%`, not `100 %`; a GOST technical document may use `100<NBSP>%`). Report it with the reason the rule gives: an ordinary space is a line break point and leaves `%` alone on the next line

• Ellipsis, abbreviations, special characters

2. **Anti-patterns** — read `anti-patterns.md`, then scan for:

• Bureaucratic language and nominalization
• Passive voice overuse
• Sentence bloat
• Tautology and pleonasm

3. **Writing quality** — read `info-style.md`, then apply:

• Stop-words and filler
• Specificity and facts
• Structure and clarity

4. **Domain-specific** — load if text type is identifiable:

• UI/interface text → `ux-writing.md`
• Email/business → `business-writing.md`
• Needs grammar review → `editorial-punctuation.md` + `editorial-grammar.md`

5. **Experience-based / neuroslop** — read `addenda.md`, then scan for the AI-generated-prose tells:

• Manufactured antithesis (AD-6) — «не X, а Y» / «не просто X, а Y» with no antecedent
• Preemptive virtue qualifier (AD-7) — «без воды», «чётко, по делу»
• Assistant-register meta-commentary (AD-8) — «Отли