Polish-Language Skill

Tighten a manuscript's mechanical language consistency and clarity before circulation or submission — the copy-editor pass content-focused skills skip. The author is often a non-native (ESL) English writer, so clarity edits keep the formal academic register and never touch facts. Manuscript edits are in English.

This skill never rewrites scientific claims, changes numeric values, edits citations, or judges study quality; it standardizes house style and improves sentence-level clarity, with explicit user approval for every edit. Out of scope: AI-tell removal (humanize, which does not do general copy-editing), drafting or restructuring (write-paper), reporting-guideline items (check-reporting), AI-search optimization (academic-aio), reference formatting and citation integrity (manage-refs, verify-refs), and translation.

Input: a manuscript or section (Markdown / plain text). Output: (1) the deterministic consistency report, and (2) — only after a user gate — a clarity-polished revision with a change log limited to style.

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