rhythm-killerlisted

# Rhythm killer Source: `points/ai-writing-rules.md` (the "Choppy short-sentence stacks" entry) and live critiques on cold-email and personal-essay drafts where the model's rhythm gave it away even after surface tells were scrubbed. ## What this skill does Two passes behind one skill. Each pass fixes a different sentence-rhythm tell: | Target | What it flags | When to run alone | |---|---|---| | **fragment-chain** | three or more short sentences/fragments back-to-back (each under ~6 words) | When the draft has a visible staccato run ("Same apartment. Finally. Tax law travels.") | | **uniform-length** | two or more consecutive sentences within ~2 words of each other in length, especially with parallel syntactic structure ("You X. You Y. You Z.") | When sentences are different in content but march at the same tempo | Default `--target all` runs both passes in order: fragment-chain first (more obvious), then uniform-length (subtler, often surfaces after the chain is fixed). ## How to invoke ``` /rhythm-killer "draft text" /rhythm-killer --target fragment-chain "draft text" /rhythm-killer --target uniform-length "draft text" /rhythm-killer --target all "draft text" ``` Without `--target`, default to `all`. --- ## Target 1 — fragment-chain Three or more short sentences (under ~6 words each) in a row read as AI rhythm. The model defaults to staccato when it doesn't know how to develop a thought, so it chops the thought into fragments that look "punchy" but pattern-match