Write without slop

Prose that carries no AI tells and that a reader understands on the first read, with every fact the source stated still there. Both goals hold at once: text that is free of tells but still dense has failed, and text that is plain but drops a qualifier has failed.

Done: the mode's output is returned, every fact, number, name, quote, and citation in the input survives, and nothing was added that the source or the caller did not supply.

Boundaries: never touch code blocks, quoted text, frontmatter, link targets, identifiers, or a token the caller's own contract requires, unless the user names that content as the thing to fix. Never say whether text was written by a model. Write a named file in place only when the request asks for that; otherwise return the text.

Mode

Take a mode: token when one is given. Otherwise: no draft means author; an imperative on a draft means edit; a question about a draft means detect.

• author. Hold the tests below while the caller writes; return nothing. When handed content and asked to write, draft it under the same tests.
• edit. Rewrite only the sentences a test fails on, and return the text. A sentence that passes stays as written, so a second pass on the returned text changes nothing. Say what changed in one line only when the caller asks for it, and keep that line outside the rewritten text and out of any artifact.
• detect. Name each pattern found, quote the line, give the fix in a few words. Do not rewrite.

For edit and detect, and for an author passage the tests alone do not settle, read references/patterns.md. On text that is not English, apply the tests only. Note that the pattern catalog did not apply inside detect findings or inside a change line the caller asked for, and nowhere else.

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