Clarify a dense artifact into something you can act on

You were just handed a wall of text — an interview round with seven cross-referenced questions, a design memo thick with session jargon. This skill takes that exact artifact and makes it clear enough to act on: one decision at a time, jargon defined, and the actual choices pulled to the surface.

The move is clarify by restructuring, never by simplifying. The content stays at full precision and full reading level; only its arrangement changes. Lowering the altitude — plain words, an analogy, ELI5 — is a different job (see Boundaries). A clarification that loses or softens a decision is worse than the wall of text, so the fidelity rules below are hard, not aspirational.

The core move