no-ai-slop

# No AI Slop Remove generic writing patterns without sanding away the author's voice. Specificity and honest meaning matter more than sounding maximally casual or clever. ## Choose the mode - **Review-only:** diagnose; do not rewrite. Return a concise severity-ranked list with exact phrase, pattern, effect, and focused repair direction. - **Rewrite:** return a short diagnostic, then the revised text. Edit only what the diagnosis supports. - If scope is ambiguous, default to review-only. If the draft is already strong, say so and avoid churn. ## Lock before editing Inventory defensible factual propositions, numbers, names, dates, attribution, evidence actually present, causality, and the maximum supported certainty. Also lock author stance, audience, CTA intent, headings, frontmatter/metadata, lists, links, code fences, and requested register. The factual lock protects meaning and its evidence/certainty ceiling, not the source claim's exact wording or unsupported strength. You may weaken hype, absolutes, causal language, or certainty that the supplied evidence does not support while preserving the strongest defensible proposition. If it is unclear whether a statement is fact, opinion, quotation, or deliberate stance, flag the ambiguity instead of silently recasting it. Never strengthen certainty, invent proof or experience, or introduce a new factual proposition. Preserve structure and formatting by default. Flag suspected factual errors separately. ## Treat the source...