Lit Humanizer

---
name: lit-humanizer
description: Revise model-written prose so it fits the reader, preserves meaning, and removes only clear drafting residue.
user-invocable: true
argument-hint: "<draft or file>"
---

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# lit-humanizer

## #contract.output_channels

```yaml
artifact_genre: client_deliverable
limitations_channel: reply
reader_projection: shared_rule
```

Use the always-on rule for ordinary turns. Load this full skill for a long deliverable, a substantial rewrite, a requested audit, or a Korean deep pass. The detector is a writing aid; it does not identify authorship or decide whether prose is good.

## Fixed procedure

1. **Mark.** Read the requested text and its audience, format, voice, and purpose. Look for high-confidence scaffolding, repeated caveats, generic service closers, and rhythm or vocabulary that feels templated. Treat warnings as questions, never as bans.
2. **Rewrite.** Make the smallest changes that make the draft sound native to its genre. Keep a distinct author voice, useful structure, and the level of formality the task calls for.
3. **Preserve.** Carry forward every fact, number, date, name, quotation, citation, and meaningful qualifier. Do not upgrade an estimate into a fact, turn absence of evidence into evidence of absence, or invent a source. If a requested summary requires omission, preserve the source's direction and limits.
4. **Re-check.** Run `scripts/detect.mjs` on the newly written text. Fix every block hit. Review warnings against context and keep a warning when it is accurate, useful, and natural. Re-run until block hits are zero and the remaining warnings are deliberate.
5. **Deliver.** Return the requested artifact without an audit preamble or process labels. In the chat reply, summarize the change only if useful and state any material risk once, plainly.

## Positive-first wording

Lead with what a number or thing is, then add a needed caveat once. `18,420회는 주민 수가 아님. 고유 방문자 수도 아님.` leaves the reader to guess what the figure counts; `18,420회는 같은 사람의 반복 방문을 포함한 방문 횟수 합계입니다` says it, and the caveat is no longer needed. The detector's `negation-cluster` rule counts definitional negations in each paragraph, list block or table column: the plain forms (`아닙니다`, `아님`, `아니라`, `is not`, `rather than` and the like) and the reworded ones that say the same thing (`~로 읽을 수 없음`, `~로 보지 않음`, `~을 뜻하지 않음`, `~와는 다름`, `~로 읽으면 안 됨`, `should not be read as`, `does not mean`). Two Korean matches, or three in any language, block the write, and the refusal carries the rewrite advice; exactly two with at most one Korean match draw a warning. Trading `아님` for `~로 읽을 수 없음` leaves the count unchanged. The count skips code, quotes and table cells of 12 characters or fewer, and one honest limitation line such as `고유 이용자 지표는 자료에 없습니다` stays clean. Put any bad example you write in inline code or a blockquote.

## Modes

- **Fast:** For short replies and small edits. Read once, revise clear residue, preserve the original voice, then check the changed text.
- **Deep:** For reports, presentations, long pages, Korean essays, or high-consequence edits. Work section by section, preserve a fact ledger while editing, and compare the finished text with the source before the final detector pass.
- **Korean deep sequence:** `style-analyzer` records register, cadence, and author habits; `prose-editor` rewrites without changing claims; `meaning-preservation-auditor` checks facts, modality, numbers, names, and quotations while `native-flow-reviewer` checks Korean idiom and rhythm; `polish-orchestrator` resolves only evidenced findings and runs the final detector. Use no more than two review rounds. These are review roles, not permission to invent agents in a host that has no agent surface; use the same sequence directly when needed.

## Reply and deliverable boundaries

- **Requested citations:** Use footnotes or a reference list in the format the user asked for. Never create a label-only source or evidence line. A plain attribution directly under a table or figure is valid when the format calls for it.
- **Material risk:** Put a real, decision-relevant risk once in the chat reply. Keep the deliverable focused on its intended audience. Preserve citations and appropriate legal, medical, or safety language when the user asked for it or the artifact requires it.
- **Internal records:** Keep plans, evidence, ledgers, handoffs, status output, and machine-readable reports detailed. Do not apply reader-facing cleanup to those records.

## Code and developer writing

Review prose in comments, commit messages, pull requests, and README files as prose. Remove comments that merely narrate the next line. Inspect code shape for needless defensive branches and one-use abstractions, but keep input validation at trust boundaries, error handling, accessibility, and data-integrity checks. Explain code changes through behavior and constraints, not commentary about the editing process.

## Read map

Load only the references needed for the task:

- Read `references/taxonomy.md` and `references/deliverable-channels.md` for limitation, source, status-label, or workflow-jargon cleanup. The taxonomy includes a rewrite for each pos-real.txt line.
- Read `references/ko-patterns.md` for Korean prose; it routes to the A–D and E–J shards. Read `references/ko-metrics.md` before using `scripts/ko-metrics.mjs`; its thresholds and golden cases are optional review aids.
- Read `references/ko-patterns-a-d.md` and `references/ko-patterns-e-j.md` for the complete Korean pattern set.
- Read `references/en-patterns.md` for English prose; it routes to content, structure, source-use, and checklist guidance. Read `references/en-patterns-checklist.md` for a full-draft pass.
- Read `references/code-patterns.md` for comments, commits, pull requests, changelogs, or README copy.
- Read `references/en-patterns-content.md` for sentence-level choices and source wording.
- Read `references/en-patterns-structure.md` for paragraph order, transitions, and repeated structure.
- Read `references/rewrite-playbook.md` for a fresh edit; read `motion-guide.md` for frontend animation.
- Reusable report, slide-text, and always-on templates live in assets/.

rules.json holds the machine rules. scripts/detect.mjs is the dependency-free Node entry point; scripts/test-fixtures.mjs checks detector rules, and scripts/test-ko-metrics.mjs checks Korean metric goldens. DOCX and PPTX text comes from the Python standard-library adapter. PDFs use `pdftotext` when that executable is available; otherwise the detector reports that it could not inspect the file. Use examples/ for format-specific before/after demonstrations and bench/prompts.md for the baseline comparison protocol.

## Guard scope and limits

The Phase A detector scans the text passed to it. Product guards must supply only newly generated or changed text; they must not rewrite existing file text or a user's quoted wording. Fenced and inline code, quoted user text, and internal paths are exempt. A warning is not proof of machine authorship. Stop when the remaining change would alter meaning, hide a real limitation, or flatten the user's voice.

For pattern detail, language-specific guidance, channels, and motion work, read the relevant files under `references/` and `motion-guide.md`. Reusable report, slide, and always-on templates are in `assets/`. The machine rules live in `rules.json`; `scripts/detect.mjs` is the dependency-free Node entry point. Office documents delegate text extraction to the Python standard-library adapter. PDF extraction uses `pdftotext` when present and stays an explicit inspection boundary when it is absent.

LitGrok's `PreToolUse` guard denies block-tier matches in newly added reader-facing prose. Its `PostToolUse` path checks generated Office and PDF outputs and emits a rebuild note for block hits; host delivery of that note is advisory.