Voice-Preserving Line Edit

A finishing pass for prose that is already written. It hunts throat-clearing before the point, inanimate things doing human work, binary contrasts that announce an insight instead of delivering it, and rhythm that never varies.

Two things separate this from a generic anti-slop rule sheet:

1. Every rule is contextual. Adverbs, passive voice, third-person register, and em dashes are not banned outright. Each is cut only when it weakens this piece, in this genre, under this house style. A technical adverb, a conventional passive, an academic register, and a house-approved em dash all survive the pass.
2. There is an audit mode. Ask for findings and you get quoted issues, reasons, and minimum corrections, with your text returned unchanged. The rewrite mode is opt-in, not the only setting.

These are writing-quality signals. They are not evidence of who or what wrote the text, and this skill never claims otherwise.