Syntax Style

Craft and revise prose at the sentence level using the syntactic techniques in Virginia Tufte's "Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style". Use when the user asks to write, edit, sharpen, or vary prose, fix flat or monotonous writing, improve rhythm and flow, rework AI-sounding sentences, or wants stronger sentence craft in essays, posts, copy, emails, decks, or documentation. Triggers on "make this read better", "vary the sentences", "this is flat/robotic/monotone", "tighten this", "fix the rhythm", "rewrite this paragraph", "sentence-level edit", or "Artful Sentences". Operates on the prose itself,

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add aref-vc/syntax-style-skill --skill syntax-style

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aref-vc/syntax-style-skill.git /tmp/syntax-style-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/syntax-style-skill/. ~/.claude/skills/syntax-style

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Syntax Style

Sentence-level craft, distilled from Virginia Tufte's *Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style* (Graphics Press, 2006). The book's thesis: the arrangement of words is not decoration on top of meaning, it is part of the meaning. A sentence's shape does work. This skill turns that into a small set of moves you can apply on demand.

## When to use this

Apply it whenever you are producing or revising prose and the sentences matter: essays, posts, landing copy, emails that need to land, talk scripts, documentation that should read well. It works at two levels: the single sentence, and the flow between sentences in a paragraph.

It is not a grammar checker and not a voice generator. It assumes the content and the voice are decided; it shapes how the words are arranged.

## The one model to hold in your head

Most artful sentences are a base clause plus free modifiers attached at the front, the middle, or the end. The same model produces a two-word sentence and a sixty-word one.

```
base clause:              The engine failed.
+ end modifiers (right):  The engine failed, a dull cough and then silence, the boat already drifting toward the rocks.
+ front modifier (left):  Two miles from shore, the engine failed.
+ mid-branch modifier:    The engine, sputtering once, failed.
```

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: syntax-style
Repository: aref-vc/syntax-style-skill
License: MIT
Repo updated: 25 May 2026

FAQ

What does the Syntax Style skill do?

How do I install the Syntax Style skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add aref-vc/syntax-style-skill --skill syntax-style. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Syntax Style popular?

It lives in aref-vc/syntax-style-skill, which has 15 GitHub stars and 1 forks.

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