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structure-humanizelisted

Diagnose and repair STRUCTURAL AI tells in an existing draft — explained themes, missing subplots, all-linear time, uniform resolutions, flat escalation — the tells that survive style editing. Use when the user says a finished draft still feels AI despite prose polish, asks to humanize the structure, restructure a story, fix the plot shape, or run a structural audit on existing chapters. For word/rhythm-level fixes use narrative-authenticity guidance or a prose-humanize pass instead.
richardelder2/Soundingboard · ★ 0 · Data & Documents · score 72
Install: claude install-skill richardelder2/Soundingboard
# Structure Humanize Style-level humanizing (removing cliché, purple prose, slop words) does NOT remove structural AI tells — detection drops less than 2 points after professional style editing (StoryScope, arXiv:2604.03136). This skill performs the structural rewrite that actually moves the needle. It is more invasive than a prose pass: it reorders scenes, adds subplots, and changes endings. Always present the diagnosis and get the user's approval of the revision map **before** rewriting anything. ## Procedure ### 1. Diagnose (read-only) Score the draft against `_config/narrative_audit_rubric.md`, sections A–C, E, F (structural items). For each failed item record: item id, quoted evidence, severity. The highest-signal offenders, in order of detection weight: 1. **Theme explained** — narrator states the moral/lesson anywhere, especially chapter endings. 2. **No subplots** — single-track plot where every element serves the main arc. 3. **All-linear time** — no flashbacks, no delayed disclosure, no revelation that recontextualizes earlier scenes. 4. **Uniform resolutions** — every arc resolved by protagonist choice and/or quiet internal acceptance. 5. **Morally clean protagonist** — no choice a reader could reasonably condemn. 6. **No named references** — only vague allusions; nothing real or specifically named in-world. 7. **Flat escalation** — event intensity rises evenly to a tidy quiet ending; epilogue present by habit. ### 2. Propose a revision map For each confirmed