unslop-text

Read this first, because the most common misunderstanding sinks the whole thing.

This skill does not write well for you, and it has no house style. It does two narrow things. It removes the specific cues that make text read as machine-written, and, where the text reads as AI because nobody ever chose a voice, it forces a deliberate one. Argument, taste, and what you actually want to say are still yours. A guardrail is not a writer.

Most of the work is the first thing, and most of the first thing is mechanical. This is where text differs from a website. A UI has no correct look, so its skill can only ever say "make a deliberate choice." Prose is not like that. Nearly every cited tell has a plain correct fix that needs no taste at all: the em dash becomes a comma or a period, delve into becomes look at, the sycophantic opener gets cut, the as an AI boilerplate gets deleted, the "in conclusion" recap goes. These are not style calls and there is no voice to invent. You remove the tic and write the plain sentence a person would write. So lead with the plain fix. Reserve the deliberate-voice work below for the genuinely stylistic choices, and for prose that reads as empty because nobody decided what it was.