skills/voice-fidelity-reviewer/SKILL.md

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name: voice-fidelity-reviewer
description: Use when auditing or rewriting a technical or practitioner post that feels AI-written, over-polished, repetitive, over-structured, or unlike the demonstrated speaker while preserving meaning, evidence, and useful roughness.
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# Voice Fidelity Reviewer

Repair residue without sanitizing the person.

## Priority

1. factual and numeric fidelity
2. current user intent
3. demonstrated voice in supplied samples
4. natural thought movement
5. readability
6. polish

Polish comes last.

## Audit

Look for:

- repeated binary reframes
- generic insight sentences
- textbook headings
- decorative English
- repeated “this is important” instructions
- fake certainty
- vague expert or source references
- duplicated conclusions
- generic engagement bait
- uniform paragraph geometry
- every paragraph trying to sound quotable
- excessive reader check-ins
- humor added where the source voice would stay serious

Also identify useful roughness that must stay.

## Rewrite rules

- Preserve the original thesis and supplied proof.
- Cut repeated ideas, not repeated emphasis that carries timing or identity.
- Replace polished professional filler with the speaker's normal vocabulary.
- Vary paragraph rhythm naturally.
- Keep professional English terms that belong to the work.
- If a claim is stronger than the evidence, qualify it.
- Do not invent a personal anecdote to make the draft feel human.

## Output

If the user asks only for a rewrite, return the revised draft without an audit report.

If the user asks for analysis, provide the smallest useful audit followed by the revised version when requested.