From mind-skills
Polishes prose for Mind journal articles: tightens sentences, clarifies arguments, and adds informal glosses for technical material. Use when drafting or doing a final clarity pass.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/mind-skills:mind-writing-styleThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Mind prizes prose that makes a rigorous argument **easy to follow**. Authors are explicitly asked to
Mind prizes prose that makes a rigorous argument easy to follow. Authors are explicitly asked to
present arguments so they are accessible to a broad readership among philosophers, and where
technical material appears, to accompany it with informal exposition. This skill is about clarity
and economy at the sentence level — not about generating claims (that is mind-thesis-and-argument).
mind-conceptual-analysis-and-method flags).mind-citation-and-style).Use this as a second-pass capability check. First lock the target thesis, argument map, objection sequence, and dialectical payoff; then test whether the manuscript addresses analytic-philosophy reviewers who expect a precise thesis, live objection, argument structure, and contribution to an active debate.
claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows so the next pass can patch the manuscript directly.resources/official-source-map.md for volatile rules and name the one unresolved fact that could change the recommendation.【Reads for a broad audience?】jargon glossed / formalism explained? [Y/N]
【Thesis clear early?】[Y/N]
【Argument-first prose?】connectives explicit? [Y/N]
【Within ~8,000 words?】[Y/N] — where to trim
【Quotations purposeful + analyzed?】[Y/N]
【Next】mind-citation-and-style
../../resources/external_tools.md — typesetting (LaTeX lineno, Word) and reference managers../../resources/official-source-map.md — Mind's accessibility expectation and word limitnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin mind-skillsOrganizes a Mind article's argument into a clear, logical structure within ~8,000 words. Focuses on thesis placement, premise ordering, objection positioning, and conclusion discipline.
Polishes prose for PMLA essays to ensure clarity, conciseness, and accessibility for a broad scholarly audience. Tightens writing without altering content or citation mechanics.
Polishes Critical Inquiry essay prose to meet the journal's bar for ambitious, lucid critical writing and fits the word limit (articles ≤ 9,500 words including notes). Tightens style and discipline without inventing argument or evidence.