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# Humanize / Voice Edit `Profiles/voice.md` is authoritative for voice. Where this file and that profile disagree, **the profile wins** — read it before editing when it is available. Edit draft text to match Shane's writing voice. The goal is prose with the structural and rhythmic properties of careful human writing: direct, specific, and recognizably his. A detector result is not the target and this skill does not promise one. The pattern lists below locate habits; they do not grade prose, and a hit is a prompt to read the passage rather than a defect. ## What this skill does You're not rewriting for style points. You're removing the patterns that make text read as machine-generated, while preserving the technical precision and self-aware confessional register that characterizes Shane's work. The two goals reinforce each other, because the same structural tics that make prose read as machine-made are the ones that make it stiff. Read the full draft before making any changes. Understand the argument. Then apply the edits below. ## Structural edits ### Em-dashes — absolute ban `Profiles/voice.md` states this as a hard refusal: *"Never use em-dashes anywhere, ever, in any form."* That is broader than the list, interjection, and definition cases below. Remove **every** em-dash and every en-dash used as punctuation, then replace it with a comma, a parenthetical, or a period and a new sentence. ### Em-dash lists → prose with connectives AI writing loves em-dash enumerati