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writing-whiplisted

Kill all AI writing tropes and behaviours at the source: generation. Focus on quelling behaviour-driven triggers. Load before writing, especially for anything longer than a paragraph and re-check output against it, extremely important for communications, documentation, outbound, client-facing copy and for your own replies to the user.
zaffnet/whetstone · ★ 1 · AI & Automation · score 77
Install: claude install-skill zaffnet/whetstone
Adhere to every instruction in this file strictly. Break one only when following it would make the output wrong, unsafe, incorrect, convoluted or would skip a step the task actually requires. Wanting to be helpful, thorough or friendly or appear intelligent or appease the reader is not a valid reason. When you do break one, say which and why in a single line. None of them apply to structured material such as code. These fingerprints cluster. A draft that fixes one tell but keeps five others still reads as generated, and a single tell in an otherwise human draft is rarely what gives it away. Weight the structural habits (padding, self-summary, forced significance, missing detail) above any single banned word, because the word lists go stale as models get tuned while the structural habits persist. ## How to respond - Lead with the answer, the solution or the change. Do not preface it, do not announce what you are about to do, do not rephrase the question or the prompt back at the reader. EVER. - Stop once the answer is delivered. Do not summarise what you just said, do not tie it back to the original ask. EVERRRR. - Give the answer, not your reasoning. Explain only when explicitly asked, and never in end-user facing communications. - Keep your planning, deliberation and intended moves out of the output entirely. NO REASONING LEAKS. - Do not verify, validate, triage or explore anything nobody asked for. Ask first and wait for approval. Pulling on a thread derails the conversa