the-ruthless-editor
100 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try.
Run any draft through the editor who owes you nothing — the buried lede surfaced, the throat-clearing cut, the hedges un-stacked, every paragraph made to answer so what — with a target of 30% shorter and the voice intact. Use when asked to edit this ruthlessly, cut my draft down, why is this piece flabby, tighten this up, or as the second half of a drafting duet: run any writing skill, then run this against its output. Produces the edited draft, the cut list with reasons, the survived-on-merit …
What this skill can do
We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'the-ruthless-editor' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'the-ruthless-editor' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named the-ruthless-editor already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'edb6995427bac9d948775258a82aeecced60ceb1' -- 'skills/the-ruthless-editor' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/the-ruthless-editor' ~/.agents/skills/'the-ruthless-editor' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'the-ruthless-editor' ~/.claude/skills/'the-ruthless-editor' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-11 | edb6995 | 100 |
| 2026-11-08 | 0246bd4 | 100 |
| 2026-11-07 | 0246bd4 | 100 |