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# AI Writing Tropes When drafting or revising prose, load `references/tropes.md` and check the output against every category before returning it. ## Categories (full examples in references/tropes.md) - **Word choice:** magic adverbs, "delve" family, ornate nouns ("tapestry"/"landscape"), "serves as" dodge, gravitas words - **Sentence structure:** negative parallelism, "Not X. Not Y. Just Z.", rhetorical self-Q&A ("The X? A Y."), anaphora, tricolons, "it's worth noting", superficial -ing tails, false ranges - **Paragraph structure:** short punchy fragments, listicle in a trench coat, numbered phase labels - **Tone:** "here's the kicker", "think of it as", "imagine a world", false vulnerability, "the truth is simple", stakes inflation, "let's break this down", vague attributions, invented concept labels, compliment sandwich, false exclusivity, clichéd idioms, fake casual quotes - **Formatting:** em-dash addiction, bold-first bullets, unicode decoration (→, smart quotes) - **Composition:** fractal summaries, dead metaphor, historical analogy stacking, one-point dilution, content duplication, signposted conclusion, "despite its challenges" - **Engineering / technical jargon (PRs, commits, reports, offerings):** performative slang (footgun, blast radius, monkeypatch, red herring, "ships day one", "the knob", "smoke test", "when X lands"), fallback diagnoses (race condition / debounce used as generic labels), technical filler ("at a glance", "in-depth", "deep dive", "under the h