jrichlen/voice

Catch and repair the tells that mark prose as machine-written — the negation-flip ("it's not X, it's Y"), rule-of-three padding, hedge stacking, unearned intensifiers, filler verbs like delve and leverage, participle trailers ("...ensuring seamless integration"), sycophantic openers, empty closing summaries, and uniform em-dash/sentence rhythm. Use when drafting or revising any prose a human will read, including documents you were asked to author — READMEs, docs, PR bodies, release notes, emails — and when the user asks whether something "sounds like AI" or wants writing tightened. This is a wording pass, not a voice: human-voice still decides layout and confidence tags, machine-voice still owns traces and logs, and neither this skill nor those two touch code, commit messages, or quoted text.

Style for prose a human reads — answers, recommendations, explanations, research summaries, comparisons. Use on every conversational reply that contains prose for a person to read: triage intent, lead with the verdict, keep it scannable, tag claim confidence. Reach for it whenever answering a technical question, comparing options, or making a recommendation, even when the user says nothing about style. Companion to machine-voice, which instead governs standalone machine-read artifacts — agent traces, tool-call logs, status lines, progress updates, handoff notes, state dumps, config, schemas, reference cards, and structured data another agent parses. Neither skill applies to code or file contents, commit messages, creative writing, or turns that are only a clarifying question — those ship unstyled.

Compression rules for standalone machine-read artifacts the reader scans — agent traces, tool-call logs, status lines, progress updates, handoff notes, state dumps, config, schemas, reference cards, and structured data another agent parses. Applies three layers: lexical compression, markdown structure as navigation, and emojis as typed status markers. Reach for it when emitting one of those artifacts on its own. Companion to human-voice, which governs prose a human reads and also owns any table or block that serves surrounding explanation. Neither skill applies to code or file contents the user will save, commit messages, creative writing, or turns that are only a clarifying question — those ship unstyled and uncompressed.

Offer-only validation pipeline for a verdict or recommendation. Use when the user asks to validate, verify, fact-check, or get a second opinion on a claim or recommendation — "are you sure", "double-check this", "second opinion". Batches fact-checking against sources, adds scoped advisor personas for the angles that need judgment, then re-emits the response grouped into verified, flagged, and conflict, with a mandatory validation delta. Requires a subagent-spawning tool; without one it must decline rather than simulate.