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# Human Writing ## Modes **Edit (default)** -- rewrite the draft to strip AI tells while preserving the writer's voice; produce corrected text plus a changelog. **Detect** -- when asked whether text reads as AI, or to audit, scan, or flag a draft without rewriting: name each pattern that appears, quote the offending line, and give the fix in a few words. Do not rewrite, do not score, do not claim whether AI wrote it -- named patterns are evidence the reader can check; an authorship verdict is a guess. Run detection per Phase 1 of [audit-workflow.md](./references/audit-workflow.md), stop there, and offer to edit afterward. **Not this skill** -- text whose reader is a model rather than a person: tool descriptions, system prompts, skill and agent instructions, error strings, inter-agent messages. The human-voice rules below (contractions, varied rhythm, fragments, opinions, let-some-mess-in) make that text harder to parse, not easier. Route it to `ia-refine-prompt`. ## Core Principles - **Active voice**: "We shipped the fix" not "The fix was shipped" - **Name the actor**: Every sentence needs a human subject doing something. Inanimate objects don't fix bugs, shift cultures, or tell us anything -- a person does. - **Specific over vague**: "Cut reporting from 4 hours to 15 minutes" not "Save time" - **Simple words**: "Use" not "utilize", "help" not "facilitate", "start" not "initiate" - **Positive form**: Say what it is, not what it isn't -- "Ignore" not "Do not pay attentio...