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Review and revise existing prose so it reads as written by a person, by finding overused constructions and stock phrasing in one piece and structural sameness across a batch, then fixing both with specifics instead of injected variety, without changing any technical claim. Flags are editing prompts and never a verdict on who wrote something. Use when reviewing or rewriting documentation, release notes, pull request descriptions, posts or reviews for voice. Do not use for technical accuracy…

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What the file says

# Writing voice and cadence

Material that is factually correct can still read as if nobody wrote it. The usual diagnosis
is "it sounds like AI wrote it", and the usual response is to rewrite by feel. That tends to
produce a second machine voice: new stock phrases in place of the old ones, a joke dropped in,
a sentence chopped short for rhythm.

This skill works from what can be counted and what can be checked. Three things go wrong:
a handful of constructions recur often enough to be worth a second look, a body of work
falls into one shape, and underneath both, something only the author knew is missing.
It revises existing material. For drafting, use the skill for the content type:
**cratis-release-notes** for release notes and **cratis-technical-examples** for code
samples (both profiles), **cratis-social-feed-post** for feed posts (`cratis/content`) and
**cratis-documentation-writing** for pages (`cratis/documentation`).

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Source

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cratis/ai · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

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