AI Tells — Surface Scan

A near-mechanical pass that strips the obvious AI fingerprints from prose. Runs before any prose artifact is presented as final.

When This Runs

Auto-engages whenever the task produces prose-as-artifact:

• READMEs, CONTRIBUTING, CHANGELOG
• Technical documentation under docs/
• PR descriptions, PR comments, commit message bodies
• Tutorials, guides, blog posts, release notes
• Any markdown intended for human readers

Skip for: code comments (different rules), inline chat replies, structured data (YAML/JSON), or anything pure-config.

How To Use

After drafting prose, scan it once against each list below. Every match is a rewrite, not a debate. The lists are deliberately short and high-leverage — if a tell isn't here, it belongs in ai-tells-review.