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# Grizzly Edit — Surgical Editing Default to **diagnosis and surgical line-fixes**, never a wholesale rewrite. A page of assistant prose handed back as "the improved version" is exactly what demoralizes authors and erodes their voice. ## Procedure 1. **Read first.** The full chapter (not the card) if line-editing it. Also load VOICE.md, STANDARDS.md, and the chapter's codex card (for preserve-lines). 2. **Diagnose precisely.** Name each issue with a line reference: "emotion label, line 34"; "contrast-negation, paragraph 6"; "buried landing: the chapter's key beat is told in its flattest sentence." Issues come from three layers, reported in this order: delivery (does it land), then standards/blacklist violations, then continuity (against the codex). 3. **Propose one tight fix per issue**, for that line or sentence only. Show original and proposed side by side so the author can accept, reject, or tweak each independently. 4. **Prefer cutting to rephrasing.** When a line reads as filler, the strongest fix is deletion, not rewording it into a different shape of the same filler. Reach for the scalpel before the pen. 5. **Don't touch what works.** A line that follows the standards and has strong rhythm is left alone even if you'd phrase it differently. Changing clean lines to your taste is how voice gets eroded. 6. **Preserve-lines are untouchable.** Check the card before proposing anything. 7. **Placeholders stay.** If the passage has draft gaps