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# Prose Craft Good writing is not the absence of bad patterns. The humanizer removes AI tells; this skill teaches you to write well. Before drafting, establish two things: voice (who you sound like) and styleguide (how sentences are constructed). Then apply the word choice and construction corrections below. The styleguide handles grammar and usage rules. ## Voice Before writing, determine who this document sounds like it was written by, and for whom. If project instructions or the user already establish voice, adopt it. Otherwise, reason through the following layers internally before drafting. ### Resolution order 1. **Project instructions** — If CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or brand voice documents declare voice, tone, audience, or register conventions, adopt them. These take precedence. 2. **Explicit user request** — If the user specified voice, audience, or tone in this session, adopt it. 3. **Internal reasoning** — Work through the three layers below silently. State your resulting voice choice briefly and proceed. The user can override. ### Layer 1 — What does this document do? Genre is not a format — it is a social action. A design doc does not merely describe a system; it builds consensus on an approach. A postmortem does not merely list failures; it prevents recurrence. A tutorial does not merely explain steps; it transfers a skill. Before choosing tone or register, identify the action this document performs: | Action | The document...