unslop-textlisted

# unslop-text Read this first, because the most common misunderstanding sinks the whole thing. **This skill does not write well for you, and it has no house style.** It does two narrow things. It removes the specific cues that make text read as machine-written, and, where the text reads as AI because nobody ever chose a voice, it forces a deliberate one. Argument, taste, and what you actually want to say are still yours. A guardrail is not a writer. **Most of the work is the first thing, and most of the first thing is mechanical.** This is where text differs from a website. A UI has no correct look, so its skill can only ever say "make a deliberate choice." Prose is not like that. Nearly every cited tell has a plain correct fix that needs no taste at all: the em dash becomes a comma or a period, `delve into` becomes `look at`, the sycophantic opener gets cut, the `as an AI` boilerplate gets deleted, the "in conclusion" recap goes. These are not style calls and there is no voice to invent. You remove the tic and write the plain sentence a person would write. So lead with the plain fix. Reserve the deliberate-voice work below for the genuinely stylistic choices, and for prose that reads as empty because nobody decided what it was. ## The trap to avoid (this is the whole point) The failure mode of every anti-AI-writing effort is replacing one default register with another. The 2024 tell was the smooth corporate voice: the em dash, "delve," "it's not just a tool, it's a part