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/declauding

by Oskar Austegardoaustegard/claude-skills150 stars

Load at the start of any task whose deliverable is prose another person will read — a PR description, commit message, README, doc, postmortem, blog post, issue or review comment, report, release note or essay — before drafting it, whether the result is pushed, posted, published or saved to a file, without being asked. Draft, then run this pass on the draft before handing it over. Also use when someone says "de-claude", "de-slop", "humanize this", "this reads like AI", "make it sound human", or asks for a voice, tone or register edit. Rewrites the constructions that mark prose as model-written (staged reveals, verdict headers, aphoristic closers, "it's not X, it's Y", em-dash drama, forced triads, flat-certainty adverbs) into plain technical prose and checks the rewrite kept every claim. Not for fiction, poetry, code, or quoted text; for a full adversarial review of a deliverable use challenging.

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Use this Skill: https://skilld.dev/gh/oaustegard/claude-skills/declauding

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Haiku 4.5

Editing a draft Haiku wrote

The linter reaches more of a Haiku draft than of any other model's. Start there.

Work through the full lint report: participle tails (25), bolded inline-header lists (29), Title Case headers (30), negation-first (2).
Rejoin one-line drama paragraphs to their neighbours (entry 9): We tracked the wrong things. standing alone.
Delete the announcement before a payload and start with the payload (entries 8 and 38): Here's the thing nobody tells you:
Read the closers anyway; Haiku ends sections on maxims too: Measure first, always.

Running the pass as Haiku

Not observed. Check your rewrite against entries 24 to 36, the family Haiku's own prose defaults to, and run step 5.

Evidence: oaustegard/experiments model-register-drift/ (two samples, one prompt).

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

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