human-rewrite

# /human-rewrite **Repair, not authorship.** Something has already been written. It is correct and unusable. Make it usable while keeping it correct. This is translation. The source text and your text must be true of the same world. A reader who acts on your version and a reader who acts on the original must take the same action, hold the same doubts, and be surprised by the same things. > **The complete style layer lives in `human-output` when that skill is > installed.** Otherwise apply the portable style floor in > [`references/human-contract.md`](references/human-contract.md). This file > carries only what exists *because there is a source*: what may change, what > may not, and how to prove it. **If you finish a repair and only the words changed, you did the wrong pass.** Most broken text is already readable. It is unusable because it is ordered by how the work happened rather than by what the reader must decide. The sentences often survive nearly intact and the document is still rebuilt. ## The one failure this skill exists to prevent A rewrite that makes something sound **more certain than the original**. It happens without malice and almost always unnoticed, because every force in the rewrite pushes the same direction. Hedges are the first thing a brevity pass deletes; they look like filler. Short declarative sentences read as confident, so the style you are applying *is* the confidence-adding mechanism. Attribution ("the vendor's own testing showed") is long, a...