About
The ru-text skill automatically applies Russian language text quality rules when Claude generates or reviews Russian text. It enforces typography standards like guillemet quotes and covers editorial styles, UX writing, and business correspondence. Developers should use it for any Russian text output or when the user specifically mentions ru-text.
Quick Install
Claude Code
Recommendednpx skills add talkstream/ru-text -a claude-code/plugin add https://github.com/talkstream/ru-textgit clone https://github.com/talkstream/ru-text.git ~/.claude/skills/ru-textCopy and paste this command in Claude Code to install this skill
Documentation
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.
Always-On: Typography
Apply these rules to ALL Russian text output without exception.
| 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 (remove or replace)
| 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 (97 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
- 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
GitHub Repository
Frequently asked questions
What is the ru-text skill?
ru-text is a Claude Skill by talkstream. Skills package instructions and resources that Claude loads on demand, so Claude can perform ru-text-related tasks without extra prompting.
How do I install ru-text?
Use the install commands on this page: add ru-text to Claude Code as a plugin, or clone its repository into your skills directory, then restart Claude so it picks up the skill.
What category does ru-text belong to?
ru-text is in the Other category, tagged general.
Is ru-text free to use?
Yes. ru-text is listed on AIMCP and free to install. It runs inside Claude, so no separate service account is required to use the skill itself.
Related Skills
LlamaGuard is Meta's 7-8B parameter model for moderating LLM inputs and outputs across six safety categories like violence and hate speech. It offers 94-95% accuracy and can be deployed using vLLM, Hugging Face, or Amazon SageMaker. Use this skill to easily integrate content filtering and safety guardrails into your AI applications.
This Claude Skill helps developers optimize cloud costs through resource rightsizing, tagging strategies, and spending analysis. It provides a framework for reducing cloud expenses and implementing cost governance across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Use it when you need to analyze infrastructure costs, right-size resources, or meet budget constraints.
This Claude Skill analyzes sports betting markets including spreads, over/unders, and prop bets by examining historical trends and situational statistics to identify value bets. It provides structured markdown output with actionable recommendations for educational purposes. Developers should use this for sports betting analysis tools while noting it's designed for entertainment/education only.
This skill quantizes LLMs to 8-bit or 4-bit precision using bitsandbytes, achieving 50-75% memory reduction with minimal accuracy loss. It's ideal for running larger models on limited GPU memory or accelerating inference, supporting formats like INT8, NF4, and FP4. The skill integrates with HuggingFace Transformers and enables QLoRA training and 8-bit optimizers.
