ai-written-checklisted

# AI-Written Check Scan human-facing prose for the mechanical patterns that signal machine authorship, and propose a concrete rewrite for each. This is a *prose* check — it looks at sentence mechanics and word choice, not at tone or positioning (that is the `cringe-check` skill). **What this is for.** This is not about hiding that AI was involved. It assumes the healthy case: you're collaborating with Claude to refine, expand, or draft your own writing. The job is to keep the result *aligned with your intent and your voice* — so the words still sound like you wrote them, not like a model smoothed them into generic copy. None of these skills are for making AI do the writing for you. ## How to run it 1. Read the copy once for sense. 2. Walk the checklist below. For every hit, output: the **rule name**, the **offending text quoted**, and a **specific rewrite** — not just "this sounds AI." 3. Respect the thresholds. Some patterns are fine once and only become a tell when repeated. Count occurrences before flagging. 4. End with a one-line verdict: clean, light touch-up, or heavy. Never flag without a rewrite. The point is to fix the prose, not to label it. ## The checklist | Tell | Threshold | Fix | |------|-----------|-----| | **Em dash (—)** | The #1 tell. Flag almost every one in body copy. | Period, colon (sparingly), or a shorter sentence. Acceptable only as a structural separator in a header. | | **Triple-list anaphora** ("about money, about trust, about control") | 1