prose-claritylisted

Rewrite and self-check drafted prose against a machine-checkable clarity standard derived from ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English) — no marketing adjectives, no phrasal verbs, no semicolons, active voice, short sentences, and a required carve-out for the epistemic hedge markers the evidence ledger depends on. Use when drafting any package document's prose, before returning a draft, or when an independent verification pass evaluates editorial quality. This skill MUST be consulted because a banned-word list alone barely moves AI slop — the habits that produce it (hedge-stacking, nominalization) generate new slop the list never anticipated — and only rules a script can verify hold up under revision.
synaptiai/synapti-marketplace · ★ 6 · AI & Automation · score 75

Install: claude install-skill synaptiai/synapti-marketplace

# Prose Clarity Owns the sentence- and paragraph-level form of drafted prose — never its truth, never its structure, never its claim state. ## Iron Law **THE LINTER CATCHES FORM, NEVER TRUTH — AND A REQUIRED HEDGE ON AN `I`-STATE CLAIM IS NEVER A VIOLATION, IN ANY MODE.** A sentence that must carry `[EV-####]`, keep `Inferred:`/`Unknown:`/`Recommendation:`, or preserve a limitation that keeps it true is correct at whatever length that takes. This skill fixes the form of slop. It cannot make a hollow paragraph true, and it never overrides an Iron Rule from another skill. ## Classification is by passage, not by document Any line inside a numbered or bulleted step sequence, a runbook or procedure block, or a command caption resolves to **strict** mode: 20-word sentence cap, full rule set. Everything else — narrative rationale, executive summary, due-diligence prose — resolves to **STE-flavored**: 25-word cap, relaxed dictionary, same active-voice and no-phrasal-verb discipline. This is mechanically detectable from list markers and fenced/table syntax, and it handles a single document that mixes both, which most of them do. ## Hard categories — apply in every mode, always block Banned marketing adjectives · banned phrasal verbs · semicolons · banned filler and hedge phrases (minus the carve-out below) · sentence-length cap for the resolved mode · paragraph cap (more than six sentences). Full lists: `references/prose-style-and-vocabulary.md`. ## Advisory categories — repo