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# deslopify Rewrite prose that reads as machine-generated into plain, direct writing. Most writing guidance is passive. It shapes prose while the prose is being written, which means it does nothing for text that already exists. This is the opposite: one dedicated cleanup pass over a draft that is already on the page. ## When To Use - Prose is about to ship and nobody has read it for generated tells. - Someone says the writing sounds like a chatbot, or reads as filler. - A draft is substantively right but reads wrong. Do not use this on agent-facing instruction text - skill files, procedures, prompts, execution steps. Those use a flat imperative register deliberately, and rewriting them for warmth is a defect rather than a cleanup. ## What You Need - The target text: supplied with the invocation, in a file the request points at, or already in the conversation. - `references/tells.md`, which ships with this skill and carries the rule set. - The project's own writing conventions, if it has any. ## Procedure ### Step 1 - Resolve the target Resolve in this order, and take the first that matches: 1. Text supplied with the invocation. 2. A file the request names or points at. Read it. This is the common case, and the file is the target rather than the request that named it. 3. The previous response. A request that points at a directory rather than a file resolves under case 2 only when the directory holds one candidate. Where it holds several, name them and ask which. I