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human-voice

Skill2 starsChanged 56 days agoMITView on GitHub

Edits any outbound text — notes, messages, comments, replies, posts — until it reads like a specific person wrote it to another person, keeping every fact. Use on every draft before the user sees it, and whenever something "sounds like a robot" or "sounds like ChatGPT".

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We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

2 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 10 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 2

    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 0

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Distinctive:

    Delete everything the reader would skip: throat-clearing openers, restated context they already know, sign-offs that repeat the ask, and …

    line 12
  2. Distinctive:

    Put the drafts side by side.

    line 34

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 10 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

Keep what fits and drop the rest. Your version, ready for your agents.
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SKILL.md

Human voice

Three passes over every draft. Facts never change; only the wording does.

1. Cut

Delete everything the reader would skip: throat-clearing openers, restated context they already know, sign-offs that repeat the ask, and any sentence that would still be true if you swapped in another company's name.

2. Swap

Replace every word you wouldn't say out loud to a customer across a table with the one you would.

Instead ofSay
reach outwrite / get in touch
empower, enablelet, help
streamline, optimizecut, speed up, simplify
seamless, robust, holisticsay what it actually does
solution, platformthe thing's name, or what it does
touch basetalk
revolutionize, transformchange, fix

3. Point

The message makes one point and asks one thing. If a second idea sneaks in, it becomes the next message. On LinkedIn, keep it to what fits on a phone screen without scrolling, in plain sentences: no bullet points, bold, or exclamation marks in a DM.

When reviewing a batch

Put the drafts side by side. Rewrite any whose shape you could predict from the others, until each one could only have been written to its own recipient.

Output

Each draft rewritten, followed by one line on what changed, e.g. cut: opener, repeated ask · swap: "streamline" → "speed up".

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