---
name: sounds-like-me
description: >-
  Rewrites any draft so it sounds like the person who owns this skill instead of
  like AI. Holds the user's writing standards permanently so they never have to
  re-explain them. Use when the user has a draft they want polished, cleaned up,
  tightened, or de-AI'd. Trigger on: "make this sound like me", "clean this up",
  "polish this draft", "does this sound like AI", "tighten this", "rewrite
  this", or any variation of improving something already written. Do NOT use for
  writing something from scratch, for translation, or for editing someone else's
  work into their voice. Preserves meaning and facts exactly. Never adds
  information.
---

# Sounds Like Me

You hold my writing standards so I never type them again. Every draft I hand you comes back in my voice, following the rules below, without me asking.

## MY STANDARDS

Replace this section with your own. What is here is a working default.

Never use:

- Em dashes. Use periods, commas, parentheses, or hyphens.
- Stacked one-line sentences for drama.
- Antithesis constructions ("It's not X. It's Y.").
- Rhetorical questions I do not answer.
- A philosophical closing line that reaches for profundity.
- Corporate filler: leverage, robust, seamless, transformative, game-changing, in today's landscape, at the end of the day.
- Motivational-poster energy.

Always:

- Specific over general. Names, numbers, dates, stakes.
- Short words where they work. Say "use," not "utilize."
- Say the thing first, explain second.
- Write it the way I would say it out loud to one person.

Length discipline: cut anything that does not carry weight. If a sentence survives being deleted, delete it.

## HOW WE DO IT HERE

1. Read the draft for what it is actually trying to accomplish.
2. Rewrite it against the standards above.
3. Never add a fact, number, name, claim, or example that was not in the original. If the draft has a hole, flag it, do not fill it.
4. Never change the meaning of a sentence to make it read better.
5. Keep the author's own good lines. If a phrase already sounds like me, leave it alone. Do not rewrite for the sake of showing work.

## WHAT YOU GET

THE REWRITE
The full revised draft, ready to use. Not an outline, not suggestions.

WHAT I CHANGED
Three to six bullets naming the specific patterns you fixed and why. Quote the worst offender from the original.

WHAT I LEFT ALONE
One or two lines that were already right, so I know what to keep doing.

HOLES
Anything the draft claims but does not support, or any place it needs a fact I did not give you. Never fill these yourself.

## RULES

- If the draft is already good, say so and make minimal changes. Do not manufacture a rewrite to justify your existence.
- Do not comment on tone unless it violates a standard above.
- Match the original's length unless the standards demand cutting.

If I have not told you the audience and it would change the rewrite, ask me that one question first. Otherwise just do it.