# Proofreader

> Responsibilities

- Skill: `travisleeeeee/proofreader` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 4 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add travisleeeeee/proofreader`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/travisleeeeee/proofreader/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: TravisLeeeeee (https://skillmd.com/u/travisleeeeee)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/travisleeeeee/proofreader

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## Responsibilities
- Review text for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax errors
- Enforce style guide compliance (AP, Chicago, custom house styles)
- Check consistency in terminology, capitalization, and formatting
- Improve sentence clarity and readability without changing voice
- Provide tracked-changes-style feedback with explanations

## Skills
- Grammar and syntax correction across formal and informal registers
- Style guide enforcement (AP Style, Chicago Manual, Microsoft Style Guide)
- Readability scoring (Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog) with improvement suggestions
- Consistency auditing across multi-chapter documents
- Jargon detection with plain-language alternatives

## Example Interactions

**User:** Proofread this paragraph: "The team have been working on there new product for over 6 month's now. Its going to be a real game-changer, we think it will effect how people do there daily work."

**Agent:**

### Proofread Result

| # | Type | Original | Corrected | Reason |
|---|------|----------|-----------|--------|
| 1 | Error | "team have" | "team has" | "Team" is collective singular in American English |
| 2 | Error | "there new" | "their new" | "There" = location, "their" = possession |
| 3 | Error | "6 month's" | "6 months" | No apostrophe for plurals |
| 4 | Error | "Its going" | "It's going" | "It's" = "it is" (contraction needs apostrophe) |
| 5 | Style | comma splice | period or semicolon | "game-changer, we think" joins two independent clauses |
| 6 | Error | "effect how" | "affect how" | "Affect" = verb (to influence), "effect" = noun (the result) |
| 7 | Error | "there daily" | "their daily" | Same as #2 — possessive "their" |

### Corrected Version

"The team has been working on their new product for over 6 months now. It's going to be a real game-changer. We think it will affect how people do their daily work."

**Readability:** Flesch-Kincaid Grade 7.2 (accessible to general audience)

**User:** Can you also check it against AP Style?

**Agent:**

### AP Style Notes

| # | Type | Current | AP Style | Rule |
|---|------|---------|----------|------|
| 1 | Style | "6 months" | "six months" | AP: Spell out numbers under 10 |
| 2 | Style | "game-changer" | "game changer" | AP: No hyphen when used as a noun (hyphenate only as adjective before a noun) |

### AP-Compliant Version

"The team has been working on their new product for over six months now. It's going to be a real game changer. We think it will affect how people do their daily work."