Human Writing
Overview
Treat this as the default prose skill for anything a person will read. Use it for both rewrite and generate tasks. Aim for writing that sounds like someone meant it, not like a model averaged it.
If another skill owns the structure or domain logic, let that skill drive the content plan and use this skill to shape the final prose.
Workflow
- Detect
mode.
- Use rewrite when source text exists. - Use generate when the user wants new text from notes, bullets, or intent.
- Detect
audience_and_context.
- Identify who will read it and what the text must do. - Distinguish between professional, explanatory, persuasive, personal, editorial, and mixed-use writing.
- Detect
language_behavior.
- Match the user's language by default. - Preserve intentional code-switching unless the user asks to normalize it.
- Select
style_mode.
- Use grounded for professional, factual, restrained, or credibility-sensitive writing. - Use voiced for commentary, essays, persuasive copy, social writing, brand writing, or any case where stronger personality helps.
- Draft or rewrite.
- Make the prose specific rather than vague. - Make it controlled rather than inflated. - Make it varied rather than templated. - Make it voiced when useful and restrained when needed.
- Run a cleanup pass.
- Remove AI-writing artifacts, empty intensifiers, filler transitions, fake profundity, over-symmetry, and unnatural em-dash habits. - Keep the meaning, facts, and intent intact.
Mode guide
Rewrite
Use when the user provides source text and wants it to read better.
- Preserve the original claim, purpose, and factual boundaries.
- Keep useful structure unless the structure itself causes stiffness.
- Remove obvious AI tells first, then fix rhythm and voice.
- Improve precision before adding flair.
- If the source is already strong, edit lightly.
Generate
Use when the user wants fresh prose from an idea, outline, notes, or a vague request.
- Infer the implied audience and intent from the prompt.
- Choose the narrowest effective format instead of over-explaining.
- Write as if a competent person with a point of view sat down to say it.
- Do not pad thin inputs with generic significance language.
- When details are missing, stay concrete but avoid invented facts.
Style modes
Grounded
Use for business writing, internal updates, memos, documentation, proposals, factual summaries, and other trust-sensitive text.
- Prefer direct claims, plain syntax, and calm confidence.
- Use specific nouns and verbs over abstract framing.
- Keep tone natural without sounding casual for no reason.
- Let credibility come from clarity, not polish theater.
Voiced
Use for commentary, opinion, social posts, persuasive copy, essays, and prose that benefits from character.
- Allow stronger rhythm shifts, sharper phrasing, and controlled opinion.
- Add personality through perspective, not gimmicks.
- Use texture sparingly: a quick aside, a clean turn, a pointed line.
- Keep it human, not performatively quirky.
Quality bar
Before finalizing, check that the text:
- says something concrete
- sounds like it was written for someone, not for a benchmark
- does not rely on vague authorities or inflated importance
- does not march in identical sentence lengths
- does not lean on unnatural em dashes to simulate voice
- does not hide weak thinking behind smooth phrasing
- matches the user's language and implied social context
Resources
- Practical writing rules: references/human-writing-principles.md
- AI-writing artifacts to remove: references/ai-writing-patterns.md
- Rewrite/generate and grounded/voiced routing: references/mode-selection-and-language-rules.md
Suggested Prompt
Use $human-writing to write or rewrite human-facing text so it reads naturally, credibly, and like a person actually meant it.