Practical Prose

Score one practical document with metrics and rubric grading; read-only on source. Use when asked to score, evaluate, grade, rubric-check, or measure quality.

Review one practical document and report tiered editorial feedback (what a common edit, a copy edit, and a full substantive pass would each change) without modifying the document and without numeric scores. Read-only. Use when asked to review, critique, give feedback, or get an edit plan, and you do not want edits applied, a scored eval, or a version comparison.

Compare evaluated document versions or variants; read-only on source docs. Use when asked to compare drafts, A/B versions, quality-diff docs, or pick the best.

Remove AI-writing tells and formulaic LLM prose while preserving meaning and voice; modifies the target. Use when asked to de-slop, de-slopify, humanize, remove AI tells, or make writing sound less AI-generated or less machine-like; also use, unprompted, when text being written, edited, or reviewed reads machine-generated (an AI-heavy draft, pasted chatbot output). Fixes hollow emphasis, canned transitions and conclusions, boilerplate openers, inflated significance, false agency, negative parallelism, dramatic fragments, marketing register, chat-artifact leakage, and reflexive three-item lists.

Copy-edit a Markdown document for language and formatting (the Expression and Form dimensions); modifies the doc. A superset of pprose-common-edit and pprose-de-slop. Use when asked to copy edit, proofread, polish, tighten, rewrite, or line edit.

Full editorial pass over a practical document across all 20 Practical Prose dimensions; modifies the doc AND writes an editorial-review side document. A superset of pprose-copy-edit that includes the pprose-de-slop pass. Use when asked for a deep or full edit, an editorial review, a substantive edit, or a strengths-and-weaknesses review with suggested fixes.

Apply the common Markdown documentation guidelines and required footer to durable docs; modifies docs. Use whenever creating, editing, reviewing, or reorganizing Markdown, including READMEs, guides, specs, plans, runbooks, and agent instructions, unless the task is explicitly read-only. Also use when asked to tidy, clean up, conform, fix formatting or structure, or add the footer.