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.
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:
- Em-dashes. Do not use them. A comma, colon, or period always works.
- The AI dialect of favorite words (delve, seamless, robust, leverage) and sentence shapes ("it's not just X, it's Y", "in today's world"). 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
# 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
```