Unnarrate

Companion to unslop. Unslop fixes how AI prose sounds; this deletes text that should not exist at all: meta-commentary — writing that narrates the artifact to its own audience. A progress bar already announces progress; "progress is shown while it runs" beside it is a second, redundant signifier. Agents produce this constantly because they narrate their chain of thought into every surface they touch.

The deletion test

Delete any sentence, label, or comment whose only content is:

1. a description of the artifact it lives in ("This section describes..."),
2. something the reader can already see (a tooltip restating the label, a comment restating the next line), or
3. the process that produced it (// As requested, extracted into a helper).

Two checks decide close calls: