Readability

Overview

Single-purpose proofreader. Scans academic text (LaTeX, Markdown, plain text) for three classes of issue and presents each one individually for approval before editing:

1. Typos — misspellings, wrong words, doubled words, stray characters.
2. Grammar — subject-verb agreement, articles, tense consistency, preposition choice, pronoun reference, punctuation, run-ons, fragments, dangling modifiers.
3. Academic readability — wordiness, empty hedging, buried verbs, passive overuse where active is clearer, awkward transitions, unclear antecedents, mixed register, inconsistent terminology.

This skill is deliberately narrow. It does not restructure arguments, move sections, change claims, renumber equations, or touch citations. For those tasks, use paper-polish.

Spelling standard: American English

All spelling checks and proposed fixes must follow American English conventions, regardless of the document's current usage. Treat British/Commonwealth spellings as typos and propose the American form: