pilcrow

What problem does it solve?

This Skill transforms a generic LLM into a specialized prose editor that catches AI tells, enforces classical style guides, and provides structured editing commands for markdown, HTML, and plain-text prose. It eliminates the gap between raw LLM output and polished, human-sounding writing by combining deterministic regex checks with LLM-judged style critiques across 30+ genres.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Prose Linting: Runs 50 deterministic rules and 22 LLM-judged rules to catch AI tells, weak verbs, nominalizations, and style-guide violations.
• Editor Commands: Provides specialized lenses like polish, tighten, clarify, pace, lead, humanize, and verify that interpret findings through classical style guides (Strunk & White, Williams, Zinsser, Pinker, Orwell, King).
• Voice Capture: The teach and document commands build a voice profile from existing prose, ensuring rewrites match the writer's unique voice and signatures.
• Genre Awareness: Adapts its rules and suggestions to 30+ genres (essay, postmortem, landing page, CV, etc.) with genre-specific demands, forbids, and tolerances.

Quick Start

Use the pilcrow skill to review and polish your prose by running the pilcrow polish command on any markdown, HTML, or plain-text file to receive a triaged report with ship-blockers, worth-fixing items, and proposed rewrites anchored in classical style guides.