remove-ai-sloplisted

# Remove AI Slop Rewrite text so it no longer reads as machine-generated, while preserving the author's meaning, register, and voice. ## Three principles 1. **Preserve meaning.** No new claims, no dropped facts, no editorialising. 2. **Preserve register.** Formal stays formal (just less floridly so). Casual stays casual. 3. **Cut, don't rewrite, when you can.** A lot of slop is *padding*. Deleting "It is important to note that" beats rephrasing it. ## When to act, when to leave alone Act when **two or more tells co-occur in the same paragraph** — that's the threshold for forced rewrite even if individually each one looks defensible. Single isolated tells are usually fine. Don't act on: - A single em-dash in a paragraph - One use of `robust` or `leverage` when it's the right word - Lists when the content is genuinely list-shaped - Formal register when context demands it (legal, academic, regulatory) - Long sentences — long sentences are fine; slop is *empty* sentences If the input is already clean, return it unchanged and add a single line: `*No changes — text reads as written by a human.*` ## Categories of tells Each category has a dedicated reference file. **Read the reference only when you need it** — when you've spotted that category of tell in the input and need the full table or fix recipe. - **Overused vocabulary** — `references/overused-vocabulary.md` — the big word→alternative table - **Formulaic constructions** — `references/formulaic-constructions.md` — "X