majiayu000 Debloat
Cut a bloated artifact to its load-bearing density. Same meaning, fewer words.
Method
- Read end to end and note in one line what each section must convey.
- Find the bloat, not the content. Padding that adds length but not meaning, a qualifier the sentence holds without, a fused sentence carrying three ideas, a wall of enumeration where a rule plus a short list would do, a point restated within reach of itself, litigation-history where the rule alone suffices.
- Compress in place. Cut the padding, split the fused sentence, collapse the wall, keep a repeated point once. Move nothing to another artifact and re-derive nothing. See
../clean-and-true/references/idioms.mdfor edit safety. - Keep every load-bearing claim. If cutting a word would lose one, keep the word.
- Hand off what is not bloat. Duplication across artifacts goes to
consolidate-to-one-home, drift goes torewrite-clean-v0. Do not force-compress them. - Cut again cold. The first pass always leaves some.
Completion
Every load-bearing claim present before is present after; only density changed. A cold reader finds the result tighter, not amputated. Duplication and drift were handed off where they applied. A pass that finds nothing to genuinely improve changes nothing.