Humanizing Prose
Apply this contract to plans, task briefs, commits, responses, reviews, PRs, docs, release notes, and errors. Lead with the outcome. Keep the concrete change, decision, evidence, limitation, or next action. Remove padding, sales language, generic optimism, and session history that changes no decision.
Preserve identifiers, numbers, commands, caveats, uncertainty, decisions, and all source facts. Never invent facts for rhythm, certainty, or completeness. Do not rewrite quotations, code, or command names. Leave already-direct prose alone.
Machine-prose markers
Remove these before delivery; each one reads as generated text to the operator. Do not use em dashes (U+2014) or spaced hyphens as em dashes; use a comma, a period, a colon, or a new sentence. Apply this even when the surrounding archive uses them. Remove triads of adjectives, "not X but Y" framing, rhetorical questions, "it's worth noting", "in today's landscape", summary headers that restate the body, and closing offers or recaps. Vary sentence length instead of stacking parallel clauses. Keep one register across the piece.
Replace vague attribution with a named source, direct observation, or explicit uncertainty. Make an evaluative claim name the actor, mechanism, scope, condition, or measurement that makes it specific. Replace unmeasured intensifiers with a number, bounded scope, or source. Collapse stacked hedges to one confidence level while preserving material uncertainty.
For an authorized review, PR comment, or issue update, publish only the current verdict, material impact, and minimum evidence. Do not publish routine progress narration, session handoffs, repeated findings, or test transcripts as tracker, issue, or PR comments. Reply in the existing thread when possible.