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Ground Rule
This skill performs light rewriting of awkward or unclear sentences, without reshaping the argument. Every proposed change MUST preserve the statement of the original text exactly: same facts, same numbers, same technical terms, same qualifiers, same negations, same order of the argument -- only the wording changes. A rewriting which shifts the meaning even slightly is not a refinement and is never applied.
The rewriting stays within a sentence. Dropping a whole sentence,
paragraph, example, or list item for the sake of brevity is length
reduction, not refinement, and belongs to the ase-docs-shorten skill.
The project source artifacts are classified as a black box, so the user does not want them inspected or their problems surfaced. Skip the entire investigation and reporting: do not invoke any
GloborAgenttool and do not read any document, only output the following and then SKIP the remaining steps STEP 2 and STEP 3:First, use the following to give a hint on this step:
Dispatch the investigation to sub-agents via the
Agenttool so that no investigation details leak into the user-visible transcript. The sub-agents perform the silent reading and checking; only their final structured return values are consumed here.For this, first silently resolve
<getopt-arguments/>to the list of individual document files, expanding any directory or wildcard references with theGlobtool. Then partition , preserving order, into at most eight batches of roughly equal size (a single document yields a single batch), and invoke the following tool once per batch, emitting all invocations in one single message so they run in parallel:Agent( description: "Refine Investigation (<batch-index/>/<batch-count/>)", subagent_type: "ase:ase-docs-refine", prompt: <batch/>, run_in_background: false )Here is the space-separated list of the document file paths of the corresponding batch, is the 1-based index of that batch, and is the total number of batches, so that each parallel invocation is distinguishable in the progress display.
Parse the result message of each
Agenttool invocation as a JSON array, concatenate all those arrays, sort the combined list byfileand then numerically byline, and set to that list.You MUST NOT output anything at all in this STEP 1 beyond the above hint template and the
GlobandAgenttool invocations.Use the following to give a summary of the detected problems in :
Refinement Type Refinement Result STRUCTURE: problems found NOMINALIZATION: problems found PARALLELISM: problems found FILLER: problems found TRANSITION: problems found VOICE: problems found Hints:
- is the number of problems with
typeequal toSTRUCTUREin - is the number of problems with
typeequal toNOMINALIZATIONin - is the number of problems with
typeequal toFILLERin - is the number of problems with
typeequal toTRANSITIONin - is the number of problems with
typeequal toVOICEin
- is the number of problems with
Mark this skill as the active edit-capable skill so that the ASE
pre-tool-usehook auto-approves the subsequentEditinvocations on any invocation path (slash command orSkilltool). Call thease_config_set(key: "agent.skill", val: "ase-docs-refine", scope: "session:<ase-session-id/>")tool from theaseMCP server. Do not output anything in this substep.Critical safety invariant: the marker set here grants
Editauto-approval and MUST be cleared again (substep 3 below) before this skill yields control, regardless of how the iteration in substep 2 ends - whether it completes normally, is aborted early (e.g. anEditfailure, an unparseable value, or any other unexpected condition), or is otherwise interrupted. If you ever stop or bail out of substep 2 early, you MUST still perform substep 3 first. Never leave this marker active for a later, unrelatedEdit.Set to the number of problems in and to
0. Then iterate over all problems:Increment by one (the 1-based position of the current within ). Set to the
typefield of . Set to thefilefield of . Set to thelinefield of . Set to thedescriptionfield of . Set to thecontext_beforefield of . Set to theold_textfield of . Set to thenew_textfield of . Set to thecontext_afterfield of .Then verify the Ground Rule for this : compare against and drop the entirely -- continuing with the next without any output -- whenever the rewriting shifts the meaning even slightly, i.e., drops, adds, or alters a fact, a number, a technical term, a qualifier, a negation, or a condition.
Then normalize the change to its minimal form, so that the proposed diff shows exactly the lines the later
Editwill actually change: while the first line of is identical to the first line of , move that line from both to the end of and increment by one; likewise, while the last line of is identical to the last line of , move that line from both to the front of . Finally, trim to its last two lines and to its first two lines.Then, unless is equal
grey(where the full unified diff is suppressed and no context lines are rendered at all), silently read the current content of with theReadtool - reusing the content read for the same earlier in this iteration, unless anEditwas applied to it in between - and set to its lines, stripped of the line-number prefixes the tool adds. Set to empty if the file cannot be read.Whenever is non-empty, re-derive both context parts from it, overriding the sub-agent supplied values, so the rendered diff shows real context even when a sub-agent supplied none: set to the up to two lines of directly before line (empty if is
1) and to the up to two lines of starting at line ( + ), where is the number of lines in (empty if that line is beyond the end of the document). Keep the sub-agent supplied values only when is empty.Report the problem with the following :
The project source artifacts are classified as a grey box, so the user does not want the full artifact internals surfaced: suppress the full unified diff and instead show only a condensed one-line representation. Determine as the single-line collapse of (join its lines with
⏎, or∅when is empty for a pure insertion) and as the same collapse of (or∅when empty for a pure deletion). Then report the refinement with the following :REFINEMENT:
<old-snippet/>→<new-snippet/>Determine the hunk body as an ordered list of lines, each carrying a one-character prefix (
for context,-for old-side,+for new-side). Build it by concatenating, in order and skipping any part that is empty:- one
-prefixed line for each line of (if non-empty), - one
--prefixed line for each line of (if non-empty; split on newlines), - one
+-prefixed line for each line of (if non-empty; split on newlines), - one
-prefixed line for each line of (if non-empty).
Set to those prefixed lines joined by newlines.
Set to the number of old-side hunk lines, i.e., the combined line count of , , and (each empty part counts as
0). Set to the number of new-side hunk lines, i.e., the combined line count of , , and (each empty part counts as0).Set to the 1-based line number of the first old-side hunk line: if is non-empty, that is the line of its first context line, i.e., minus the number of lines in ; otherwise it is itself (the first line of ). For a hunk that only inserts new lines (empty and empty context), set it to the line before which the insertion happens, clamped to a minimum of
0, so a top-of-file insertion yields@@ -0,0 ... @@. Set to the same value as , but clamped to a minimum of1whenever is greater than0(the refined side then has a real first line).Render the proposed refinement as a unified diff with up to two lines of context in a fenced block based on the following , emitting verbatim (one already-prefixed line per line, with no extra blank or space-only lines):
REFINEMENT:
--- <file/> (original) +++ <file/> (refined) @@ -<old-start/>,<old-count/> +<new-start/>,<new-count/> @@ <hunk-body/>- one
In the following, you MUST NOT use your built-in tool! Instead, you MUST just show a custom dialog according to the expanded
custom-dialogdefinition. You MUST closely follow this definition:Set ACCEPT.
Check and dispatch accordingly:
Invoke the
Edittool to apply the change by replacing with at :. The operation will be auto-approved by the ASEpre-tool-usehook (which tracks the active skill), so no interactive permission prompt will appear. Then continue with the next .Generate a new proposal for the same , incorporating the user's free-text hint from after the "OTHER:" prefix. Reassign , , and to reflect this refined proposal ( stays anchored to the existing text at :; and carry the refinement) so the subsequent rendering and any
Edituse the new proposal rather than the original. Then re-apply the minimal-form normalization of substep 1 to the refined and (so the re-rendered diff again shows exactly the changed lines) and go back to substep 2 of thisfor-iteration. There is no cap on refinement rounds - keep refining until the user picksACCEPTorREJECT.-
Skip this without any
Editcall and continue with the next .
Clear the active edit-capable skill marker now that all
Editinvocations are done, so a later unrelatedEditis not auto-approved. Call thease_config_delete(key: "agent.skill", scope: "session:<ase-session-id/>")tool from theaseMCP server. Do not output anything in this substep.You MUST NOT output any further additional explanations or summaries at the end of this skill processing, except for the following final :
Finally, give the closing hint by expanding the following (which, depending on the configured , may expand into nothing and hence emit no output at all):