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Prose Style (Adom House Style)
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The Adom house writing style. Apply to ALL user-facing copy you write: NO em-dashes (use a comma, colon, or period), and cut the tics that make text read as AI-generated (delve, seamless, robust, leverage, 'it's not just X, it's Y', 'in today's world'). Write plainly, like a person. Read before writing any README, wiki page, release note, chat message, UI string, or docs.
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README.mdadded+33@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@+# Prose Style (Adom House Style)++The house standard for every piece of copy Adom ships: wiki pages, README files,+release notes, chat announcements, UI strings, component descriptions. A lot of it+is drafted by an AI and reads that way. This skill is how we fix that. The goal is+plain: it should read like a person wrote it.++Two things give AI writing away, and the skill kills both:++1. **Em-dashes.** Do not use them. A comma, colon, or period always works.+2. **The AI dialect** of favorite words <!-- prose-lint-disable -->(delve, seamless, robust, leverage) and+ sentence shapes ("it's not just X, it's Y", "in today's world").<!-- prose-lint-enable --> Rewrite them+ into plain statements.++Read `SKILL.md` for the full ruleset, the swap tables, and how to rewrite the+cadence. The deterministic enforcement lives in the companion `prose-lint` CLI.++## Install++```+adom-wiki install adom/prose-style+```++Ships in `adom/core`, so a standard Adom workstation already has it, and it pulls+`adom/prose-lint` as a dependency.++## Use it++Read it before writing any user-facing copy, then check the result:++```+prose-lint README.md+```
page.jsonadded+53@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@+{+ "slug": "prose-style",+ "title": "Prose Style (Adom House Style)",+ "type": "skill",+ "version": "0.1.0",+ "description": "The Adom house writing style. Apply to ALL user-facing copy you write: NO em-dashes (use a comma, colon, or period), and cut the tics that make text read as AI-generated (delve, seamless, robust, leverage, 'it's not just X, it's Y', 'in today's world'). Write plainly, like a person. Read before writing any README, wiki page, release note, chat message, UI string, or docs.",+ "tags": [+ "skill",+ "writing",+ "house-style",+ "copy"+ ],+ "dependencies": {+ "adom/prose-lint": "^0.1.0"+ },+ "discovery_triggers": [+ "write the readme",+ "write release notes",+ "write the wiki page",+ "draft an announcement",+ "make this sound less AI",+ "remove em-dashes",+ "house style",+ "does this read as AI-written"+ ],+ "discovery_pitch": "Read before writing any user-facing copy so it sounds like a person, not a model: no em-dashes, no AI-tells.",+ "sample_prompts": [+ {+ "label": "Write a README",+ "prompt": "write the README for this tool"+ },+ {+ "label": "De-AI a draft",+ "prompt": "this reads AI-generated, rewrite it in our house style"+ }+ ],+ "scripts": {+ "install": "./install.sh",+ "uninstall": "./uninstall.sh"+ },+ "hero": {+ "type": "billboard",+ "headline": "Adom House Style",+ "subhead": "No em-dashes. No AI slop. Write like a person.",+ "screenshot": "docs/hero.png"+ },+ "visibility": "public",+ "org": "adom",+ "author": {+ "name": "Ray",+ "email": "[email protected]"+ }+}