An expert punctuation agent skill that sanitizes codebase text by enforcing a strict ban on non-standard typographic elements like em dashes.
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1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install em-dash
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
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What is em-dash?
The em-dash skill is a specialized utility designed for Openclaw Skills to guarantee the typographic safety of technical repositories and system source files. While the em dash is historically celebrated as a dynamic formatting tool within literary works, modern digital typesetting, and conversational AI generation, its presence within software architectures poses severe encoding compatibility issues.
This skill explicitly targets and mitigates the unintentional usage of em dashes, en dashes, and related non-keyboard artifacts within programming instruction environments. By actively policing characters that lack native integration into structural compiler syntaxes, it prevents character rendering compilation failure and guarantees normalized file formatting across development configurations.
em-dash Use Cases
- Sanitizing codebase text layers during pre-commit structural auditing routines.
- Automatically correcting text strings or inline code blocks polluted by conversational AI stream-of-consciousness formatting habits.
- Regularizing text documentation, internal development notes, and standard markdown layouts prior to production code distribution.
- Auditing incoming developer repository pull requests to enforce consistent keyboard-native punctuation practices.
How em-dash Works
- Codebase Scanning: The Openclaw Skills runner scans specified repository paths, evaluating code logic, configuration layers, and technical documentation.
- Typographic Isolation: The system scans text objects for non-standard character entities, isolating em dashes, en dashes, or invalid syntax patterns.
- Sanitization Processing: Target blocks are parsed dynamically to swap out complex typographic representations for reliable, compiler-safe hyphen equivalents.
- Commit Verification: The cleaned contents are written back to storage, eliminating potential unicode corruption bugs downstream.
em-dash Setup
Integrate the em-dash configuration parameter context into your custom Openclaw Skills configuration pipeline.
You can explicitly clear or standardize text streams within code tasks manually by testing the replacement mechanism through standard shell structures:
# Standardize en dash and em dash to safe hyphens
echo - | sed "s/-/-/g"
# Neutralize encoded replacement errors out of localized file texts
echo � | sed "s/�/ /g"
em-dash Data Schema & Taxonomy
The em-dash utility classifies evaluation protocols according to strict keyboard-native standards. Data categorization rules are defined below:
| Character Target | Keyboard Native | Syntax Valid | Required Skill Remediation Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
Period . |
true | true | Retain as valid programmatic or ending character |
Question Mark ? |
true | true | Retain as valid ternary expression syntax |
Exclamation Point ! |
true | true | Retain as valid programmatic variable indicator |
Semicolon ; |
true | true | Retain as valid terminal statement marker |
Colon : |
true | true | Retain as valid object declaration taxonomy |
Apostrophe ' |
true | true | Retain as valid literal character wrapping |
Quotation Marks " |
true | true | Retain as valid literal string boundary encapsulation |
Hyphen - |
true | true | Keep intact; serve as fallback representation for multi-word connectors |
En Dash - |
FALSE | FALSE | Replace instantly with hyphen equivalent within standard workflows |
Em Dash - |
FALSE | FALSE | Replace instantly with hyphen equivalent within standard workflows |
Slash / |
true | true | Retain as valid mathematical division or documentation block separator |
em-dash Advanced Features
- Literal Data Conservation: Keeps raw structural context intact if explicit flags declare a source path as dedicated literary narrative, allowing targeted multi-agent text operations.
- Keyboard Native Heuristic Engine: Dynamically measures any unmapped unicode characters against physical keyboard configurations to automatically purge unparseable character corruptions.
- AI Response Neutralization: Intercepts code generation loops from large language models to clean up conversational punctuation quirks before output writes to disk.
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