declauding

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Removes LLM prose tics from drafts — staged reveals, "it's not X, it's Y", significance tags, abstraction agency, coy headers, fragment cadence, plus the flatter slop patterns (copula avoidance, participle tails, forced triads, chatbot residue, filler and hedging) — and returns plain human technical prose. Use when text needs editing for register, when someone says "de-claude", "de-slop", "humanize this", "this reads like AI", "make this sound human", "remove the tics/claudisms", or asks for a voice/register pass on a post, README, report, PR description or essay. Also use before publishing any draft Claude wrote. Produces either clean prose or an annotated HTML diff showing every edit with its original and reason.

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# Declauding Turn LLM-shaped prose into prose a human technical writer would have written. Two output modes: - **clean** (default) — the rewritten text, nothing else. - **annotated** — a single-file HTML artifact: rewritten text, every changed passage marked, each with the original, the tic name, and why it goes. A toggle hides the marks so the result can be read straight through. Three ways it gets called, which change what you deliver: - **Pasted text** (default) — the user gives text in the conversation. Return the rewrite, plus a short list of what changed if the edit was substantial. - **File** — the user points at a path. Rewrite the file in place and report a summary in the conversation rather than pasting the whole result back. Edit prose only: leave code blocks, frontmatter, data, link targets and quoted specimens alone. - **Embedded** — another skill or agent is calling this as one step of a larger job (a PR description, a commit message, a doc). Return the final text and nothing else. No preamble, no summary, no tic list. ## Do not invent specifics The rewrite must not contain a fact, name, number, date, quote or citation that is not in the source. This is the failure mode the skill invites rather than prevents: the fix for a vague sentence is a specific one, and the specific has to come from the source or from the author. *Experts believe it plays a crucial role* becomes *the sources here do not say who studies it*, or gets cut. It does not b...

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Author
oaustegard
Repository
oaustegard/claude-skills
Created
10 months ago
Last Updated
today
Language
Python
License
MIT

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