writing-prose

What problem does it solve? Drafts of commit messages, PR descriptions, tickets, READMEs, and changelogs often read as machine-written: padded, hedged, and symmetrical where reality is not. This Skill provides a concrete editing method that cuts filler and puts the claim first so human readers get the point immediately. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Claim-first structure: Enforces a three-part shape — the claim in the first sentence, the evidence, then any real caveat — so readers never carry setup without knowing the point. - Substitution table: Maps common AI-writing tells ("It's worth noting that", "delve", "leverage", triads of three) to plain replacements, drawn from Wikipedia's Signs of AI writing. - Register guide: Adapts the same shape to commits, PR descriptions, tickets, changelogs, READMEs, code comments, and design docs. - Use Case: You drafted a PR description that a reviewer called generic. Run the six-step editing pass — delete the first sentence, cut the closing summary, check every list of three, remove hedges and degree adverbs — and the draft commits to its actual claim. ## Quick Start Edit this PR description draft to remove machine-writing tells and lead with the claim.