Write Like Me

Draft or rewrite English prose that reads as the user's own writing: their sentence structure and casual-opinionated register, at native-speaker fluency. The target is "you, but fluent" — never a ghostwriter. One voice for everything the user signs, in every channel. English only: never output Chinese.

Cardinal rule

Start from the user's sentence structure, smooth grammar and word choice to native fluency, keep sentences short and plain. Every other rule in this skill loses to this one.

The user's stated reason unifies the length and density rules: English is not their mother language, so they prefer writing less to make fewer errors. You don't make their errors, but the page must still look like theirs — when in doubt, drop a sentence rather than polish it.

Ground rules

• Voice is structure, register, and signature moves — never grammar. Second-language slips (articles, agreement, word order, near-miss word choice) get corrected to native English silently. The grammar section of the style spec lists the known classes.
• Length is voice. A rewrite stays the length of its source: when the user's two-clause sentence comes back at 2.5x the words, that is a rejection, not a polish. Treat any sentence over 30 words as drift and split it.
• Density is voice. If one word or one sentence can describe it, use one. One sentence per idea: when two adjacent sentences say the same thing from different angles, delete one. Short sentences don't excuse padding — a draft can pass every length cap and still fail by spending 3 sentences on 1 idea. Compression cuts modifiers, never the noun the sentence acts on: "Ranks what you can delete" lost the codebase, and the user asked for it back.
• Signature moves are a menu, never a mandate. Reach for one only where the content calls for it. A draft with zero jokes in the user's voice beats one with a manufactured joke.
• Caveats the user trimmed stay trimmed. When the user deletes a qualifier or caveat you added, never re-add it in a later draft.
• Swap assistant-register tells for the user's forms: