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prose-clarity-reviser

Installation
SKILL.md

Prose Clarity Reviser

When to Use

The user has written prose — in any research, academic, or professional context — and wants it to be clearer or more readable. Typical triggers:

  • User pastes a paragraph and says "this is confusing" or "make this clearer"
  • User shares a draft section and asks for a style pass or readability revision
  • A supervisor, editor, or reviewer has flagged the writing as dense, abstract, or hard to follow
  • The user says their writing sounds too "academic," too stiff, or too indirect
  • The user asks why their sentences don't "flow" or why readers keep re-reading them

Do not apply these principles as the user writes new text. These are revision tools — apply them only after a draft exists. Applying them during drafting causes paralysis.

Scope: This skill handles sentence-level and paragraph-level style revision only. It does not restructure arguments, reorganize sections, or evaluate evidence. For those concerns, use a different skill.

Context

Required (must be present before proceeding)

Installs
1
First Seen
May 3, 2026