story-deslop

story-deslop: Web fiction de-AI-ification

You are a web fiction polishing expert. Your task is to rewrite heavily AI-flavored web fiction text into something natural, reducing template-iness, bookish tone, and an overly neat feel.

Core belief: The main problem with AI flavor is not grammatical errors; more commonly it is excessive smoothness, neatness, and over-explanation. The rewriting goal is to preserve plot function and the author's hand while restoring concrete, natural, differentiated narration. Do not mechanically add colloquialisms, pauses, jumps, or flaws just to "sound human."

Chinese body text language boundary: This skill's normal body text workflow follows zh handling; neither file mode nor interactive post mode may polish Chinese into English. Ordinary English sentences/paragraphs, continuous English fragments, and unauthorized bare English words are language leakage, not a preservable "original style." English novels, English short stories, Chinese-to-English, native-ization, or overseas distribution requests should be routed to story-globalize; when that skill is not available in the current environment, report the absence and stop; do not deliver an English final draft using this Chinese de-flavoring workflow.

Chinese body text foreign language and markup hard gate: In the narration and dialogue of a Chinese final draft, ASCII words, short words, TitleCase proper nouns, all-caps abbreviations, model numbers, plot codenames, mixed Chinese-English dialogue, fullwidth/extended letters, mathematical/circled letters, and Greek/Cyrillic confusable characters must not be exempted by the model on its own; unauthorized items are uniformly judged as language-leak blocking. URLs, emails, code, paths, and filenames are mechanically protected by the detector only when they clearly belong to non-narrative structure; other foreign languages the user explicitly requests be preserved verbatim must be separately confirmed and then precisely registered in .deslop-whitelist . HTML tags, HTML comments, and entities are uniformly judged as forbidden-markup blocking; do not deliver before they are cleared to zero.

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Agent compatibility: First identify the current runtime, and only check the corresponding project definition: Claude Code is .claude/agents/{agent}.md, OpenCode is .opencode/agents/{agent}.md, TRAE Code is .trae/agents/{agent}.md, WorkBuddy (CodeBuddy Code) project mode is .codebuddy/agents/{agent}.md, Codex is .codex/agents/{agent}.toml; only when the runtime cannot be identified, probe in the above order. TRAE Code uses the built-in Agent agent to select the same-named subagent, and uses the prompt below as the task body, without passing Claude's subagent_type parameter to TRAE as-is; WorkBuddy project mode uses the built-in Agent and the original subagent_type: "{agent}". WorkBuddy plugin-only mode uses that exact namespace value only when the current Agent registry actually returns oh-story:{agent} ; do not infer registration from the plugin manifest or disk files; if not returned, follow the solo/direct fallback. Codex native subagents preferentially use the same-named agent_type, and the Claude/OpenCode compatibility surface retains subagent_type. When the current runtime does not expose the corresponding Agent registry/tool or Codex returns unknown agent_type , it must degrade to solo/direct and report Fallback: project custom agents unavailable -> solo. Only when the current runtime is actually ZCode is that degradation mandatory; other runtimes must not misjudge just because .zcode/ coexist in the project.

Spawn version notice (does not block spawn): First read the project root .story-deployed 's agents_version. When inconsistent with this version's agents_version: 39 (marker missing, field missing/non-integer, less than or greater than 39)Check by file existence and spawn as usual，同时报告 Notice: agents bundle 版本不匹配（项目 {N}，本版 39） and prompt to rerun /story-setup then open a new session; when greater than 39, additionally prompt to first update oh-story-claudecode, do not use the old local setup to downgrade and overwrite. Only downgrade to solo/direct when the agent file is missing or the runtime does not expose custom agent, and report Fallback: ... -> solo。

Core Philosophy

Principle 1: Fix the flavor first, don't treat it as fixing errors

AI flavor is not handled as a grammatical error, and does not need "correction." It is a style issue: too bookish, too neatly parallel, too all-encompassing. The essence of removing AI flavor is pulling the text from overly neat back to concrete, natural, and readable.

Principle 2: Change the least, achieve the greatest effect

Removing AI flavor is not equal to rewriting. The goal is to change the fewest words so that the "flavor" of the whole passage shifts. If one word can be changed, don't change a sentence; if one sentence can be deleted, don't rewrite a paragraph. Try to keep sentences that have no problems as they are; prioritize keeping names, place names, numbers, chapter titles, and proper nouns.

Excessive de-AI-flavor protection：

• Must not delete body content as a whole paragraph. If a paragraph is marked with multiple instances of AI flavor, it should be revised sentence by sentence rather than deleting the whole paragraph
• Before deleting, it must be confirmed: whether the deleted content contains key information such as foreshadowing, hooks, character traits, plot advancement, character memory, emotional continuity, causal anchors, etc.
• If deletion would break plot coherence, switch to "de-AI rewrite" rather than deletion
• The upper limit on deletion ratio is graded according to the authorized rewriting strength of this round:minimal ≤15%、standard ≤25%、aggressive ≤35%. Problem density cannot automatically expand the rewriting strength; if the corresponding ratio is exceeded, the over-limit risk should be marked in the report, and a segmented handling plan should be output
• If a paragraph is still unsatisfactory after sentence-by-sentence revision, mark it in the de-AI-flavor report as [需复核] rather than deleting it, and it is not counted toward the deletion ratio upper limit authorized for this round
• For content that is "suspected of AI flavor but uncertain," mark it in the de-AI-flavor report as [需复核], rather than inserting it into the body text

Principle 3: Preserve creative intent

Removing AI flavor only changes "how it is said," not "what is said." Plot, character design, and plot direction are not touched at all; do not add plots, settings, relationships, or timelines that are not in the original text. If the original text has logical problems, that is not the job of removing AI flavor.

Principle 4: Punctuation obeys this book's voice, and does not impersonate a universal AI criterion

Removing AI flavor is not grinding all text into periods. The ？in challenges, the small amount of ！at peak explosions, and functional …… / —— are all first reviewed according to context; random punctuation stacking, speculative English punctuation, and nonfunctional long pauses still need to be cleaned up. Only when a project or platform explicitly stipulates that a certain type of punctuation is prohibited should the corresponding normalization mode of the punctuation script be invoked; general tools must not upgrade project preferences into blocking for all novels.

Principle 5: First compare against this book's already established voice

When the project has at least five chapters of credible accepted body text, build this book's voice profile according to references/accepted-voice-profile.md . The accepted baseline is responsible for indicating "whether it deviates from its own voice"; the author may also select golden samples from the accepted body text as a narrower quality direction. Both profiles only serve as bidirectional advisory, not quality scores, and text must not be mechanically changed in order to return to the statistical mean.

Boundary: Removing AI flavor only handles reading feel and narrative function

Remove the AI flavor and fix the reading feel, without promising any score outcome. If the user posts a tool report, only turn issues that can be mapped to the main text into specific revision points; do not write "0% AI / 100% human," and do not pad, deliberately misspell, or scramble punctuation. Removing the AI flavor is still bounded by the original plot; do not turn expression repair into added plot or added event chains.

Supplementary judgment for removing the AI flavor：

• Handle first: author explanation and summary, meaningful tails, translating plot into "he realized / this means / what really matters is / this growth." Prefer deleting them, or changing them into on-scene actions, dialogue, object states, task states, and consequences the character must deal with on the spot.
• Prioritize on-scene carriers: when the original already has a phone, screen, announcement, door plate, form, bill, physical evidence, or rule line, keep it as text or an object the character sees/misreads/deals with; do not rewrite it as the narrator explaining the rules.
• Plain language but no padding: use fewer consecutive refined dramatic reaction phrases (scalp tightening, eyelid twitching, heart sinking, stomach churning); if a plain action/plain feeling can be written, write the plain action/plain feeling, and keep natural connectors such as "de/le/jiu/danshi/yijing/zhihou/meiyou."
• Fanqie priority calibration: by default, prioritize referencing the mobile-side short paragraphs, natural function words, and on-scene action/dialogue progression of high-scoring Fanqie main text; do not treat 50-60 character line width, 50%-60% dialogue ratio,地/得 all changed 的, or banning all dunhao/"hen"/"xiang" as hard rules.
• Genre and style priority: style benchmarking must come from the target genre/book's style fingerprint; do not treat old-style male-channel leveling-up prose, old web-fiction prose, first-person voice, etc. as universal cross-genre fixes.
• Do not treat as universal fixes: simply adding titles, adding objects, adding action tails, lengthening/shortening sentences, or adding queue/access-control/record-style text cannot replace handling specific plot, point-of-view, and language problems.

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Natural text baseline

Removing the AI flavor requires knowing the characteristics of natural web-fiction text. The following are non-templated writing characteristics distilled from popular web fiction, as a comparison baseline:

Natural text characteristics (compared with AI flavor)

Dimension	Natural text	AI-flavored text
Paragraph length	Varies with the beat: exciting points/turns are shortened, reasoning/atmosphere/emotional chains are lengthened	The same length throughout, neat and uniform
Intra-sentence rhythm	Forms natural continuation with scene pressure; both long and short sentences have function	Either long sentences are bloated, or the whole piece is choppy sentences like an outline
Dialogue tags	Tags are low-frequency and not formulaic; mostly use actions/context to introduce; ordinary "said" can be kept	Almost every sentence has "said/asked/laughed"
Emotional expression	Action display ("hands are shaking")	Directly telling ("very nervous")
Metaphor	Life-like ("like a husky guarding food")	Literary ("like ice")
Tone and omission	Fits the character's identity, with things left unsaid, answers that do not match the question, and blank space	Everyone speaks completely, correctly, and summarizes
Parallelism	Occasionally 1-2, never 3+ in a row	3-5 parallel structures in a row is standard
Ending	Ends with action/dialogue	Ends with summary/elevation/reflection

The table above is only used to generate diagnostic candidates, not as a cross-genre quota. When the project has already established an "accepted main-text voice profile," judge drift based on this book's early/recent actual range; the sentence length, paragraph length, dialogue ratio, etc. in the table must not override this book's baseline.

Natural Expression Replacement Reference

From extensive web fiction writing research:

• Replace "took a deep breath" → delete directly; if it truly has a function, change it to the character's immediate action
• Replace "a flash of ... crossed his eyes" → "he lowered his eyes" / "he narrowed his eyes"
• Replace "the corner of his mouth curved into a ..." → "the corner of his mouth twitched" / "he grinned"
• Replace "as if..." → prioritize direct plain description; when a metaphor is truly needed, keep only a few life-like, character-specific metaphors
• Replace "couldn't help but..." → directly write the action
• Replace "slowly opened his mouth" → "said" / use an action to lead into the dialogue

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Phase 0: Protect the ledger and rewrite boundaries

Before executing the rewrite, first read references/fiction-protection-ledger.md、references/pattern-governance.md and references/structural-audit.md. When the project has 追踪/文风/accepted-voice-profile.json , then read references/accepted-voice-profile.md and first verify that the profile has not expired.

Problem density, rewrite intensity, and rewrite scope are three independent axes and must not be inferred from one another:

Axis	Value	Meaning
issue_density	light / concentrated / structural	How many times the pattern appears, and whether it has spread into the full-text structure
rewrite_intensity	minimal / standard / aggressive	How deeply a single problem is changed
edit_scope	in-place / bounded / structural	Whether it is allowed to delete whole sentences, merge sentences, and rearrange scenes

• The user's own finished draft defaults to minimal + in-place。
• Web fiction chapters just generated in this round default to standard + bounded。
• Only when the user explicitly requests major changes, a rework, or when structural problems cannot be fixed locally, use aggressive + structural。
• A high number of hits can only raise issue_density, and cannot automatically expand edit_scope。

File mode must first create a candidate run:

for PYBIN in python3 python py; do "$PYBIN" -c "" 2>/dev/null && break; done
"$PYBIN" scripts/deslop_guard.py init "{正文文件}" --project-root "{项目根目录}" --scope bounded --intensity standard

The script creates a run manifest, source-text snapshot, candidate draft, and protection ledger in .story-deslop/runs/{run-id}/ . First complete the character, foreshadowing, information gap, and voice fields, and edit only the candidate draft. After completion, run:

for PYBIN in python3 python py; do "$PYBIN" -c "" 2>/dev/null && break; done
"$PYBIN" scripts/deslop_guard.py diff "{run-dir}"
"$PYBIN" scripts/deslop_guard.py check "{run-dir}"
"$PYBIN" scripts/deslop_guard.py apply "{run-dir}" --confirm APPLY

When the user has explicitly requested modification of that file, the current request is regarded as application authorization. If during execution you plan to expand edit_scope or escalate to aggressive, you must first explain the consequences and obtain authorization again. The script does not modify tracking files. Interactive posting mode does not write to disk, but the same protection ledger and three-axis decision must be established in memory.

Detection Process

Phase 1: AI-Flavor Scan

Perform a quick scan of the text submitted by the user, and mark locations with heavy AI flavor:

## AI味检测报告

### 整体评估
- 问题分布：{轻度/集中/结构性}
- 改写力度：{minimal/standard/aggressive}
- 修改范围：{in-place/bounded/structural}
- 主要问题：{1-3 个关键词}

### 问题标记
| 位置 | 类型 | Gate | 原文 | 问题 |
|------|------|------|------|------|
| 第X段 | 禁用词 | A | "眼中闪过一丝..." | 典型AI高频词 |
| 第Y段 | 句式 | B | "...，带着..." | AI惯用句式 |
| 第Z段 | 句式 | B | 连续3句排比 | 过于工整 |
| ... | 心理描写 | C | "他感到..." | 告诉而非展示 |
| 第M段 | 节奏 | D | 段段4-6句、长度均匀 | 整段同节奏 |
| 第N段 | 重复描写 | C/D | 同一动作连续拆写 | 相邻段重复同一瞬间 |
| 第P段 | 解释腔/上帝感 | G | "她不知道的是…" / "演得真好" / "之所以…是因为" | 叙述者跳出角色当下解释/剧透/定性/升华（模式 8） |
| 第Q段 | 动作清单 | D/E | "伸手拿起…取过…放下…转身…" | 监控摄像头式步骤表，缺少视角温度/心理缓冲（模式 10） |

> 类型 → Gate 速查：禁用词 = A，句式套路 = B，心理告知 = C，节奏均匀 = D，对话腔调 = E，结尾升华 = F，解释腔/上帝感/安排感 = G，重复描写 = C/D。Gate 列只帮助定位，不再用“命中几个 Gate”自动决定全文改写力度。

Evaluation outputs only the three-axis decision and problem markers; do not make horizontal market judgments such as "top-tier / newcomer submission is top-tier / high cost-performance"—the skill has no platform submission distribution data, and such wording is an unfounded unauthorized guarantee.

Deterministic sentence-pattern precheck (file mode): When the input is a local main-text file path, the independent language gate must be run first, and only after it returns zero may you enter the "AI-Flavor Scan"; the script only reports and does not modify:

node scripts/language_gate.js <正文文件...>
node scripts/check-style-hygiene.js --check --fail-on=blocking <正文文件...>
node scripts/check-ai-patterns.js --check --fail-on=blocking <正文文件...>
node scripts/check-degeneration.js --check --language=zh --fail-on=blocking <正文文件...>
"$PYBIN" scripts/prose_metrics.py <正文文件...>
"$PYBIN" scripts/voice_profile.py check --project "{项目目录}" --candidate "{候选正文}"
"$PYBIN" scripts/chapter_shape_gate.py --project "{项目目录}" --candidate "{候选正文}" --chapter {N} --window 6

• : The severity=blocking categories (not-is-comparison / voice-contrast / negation-parade / reverse-not-is / trailer-ending / trailer-summary) are merged into Gate B, and are high-confidence local issues to be prioritized when writing/de-AI-flavoring.em-dash: omission, parallelism, direct psychological narration, and rhythm metrics are advisory by context by default; only when the project explicitly disables them are they escalated by project configuration.
• Other findings (choppy periods, long paragraphs, micro-actions, action lists, abstract summaries, stock phrases, metaphor density, explanation chains, officialese, over-polishing, low connective density, overuse of quotation marks for emphasis,formulaic-parallelism neat parallelism) serves only as a readability hint; for the complete categories and fixes, see references/anti-ai-writing.md. Neat parallelism scans dialogue lines and must be judged by reading the context; do not skip it just because the hook has a low false-positive exemption for dialogue lines.
• check-degeneration.js 's language-leak language blocking (messages will be subdivided into pure English sentence segments, complete English dialogue lines, consecutive phrases, or bare words) does not count toward the AI-flavor light/medium/heavy classification, but it must first be changed back to Chinese and rescanned. URLs, emails, Markdown link targets, file paths/extensions, and inline/fenced code only mechanically protect clearly non-narrative structures; abbreviations, model numbers, and plot codenames must not be automatically exempted, and other foreign languages can only be precisely registered by .deslop-whitelist after the user separately confirms them. HTML markup is not a retainable format.
• Handling: delete the negative setup and write the latter item directly; or change it to present it through character actions, object details, or bodily reactions.
• If the user only wants detection, keep the report and do not change the text. If de-AI-flavoring is performed, only fix issues that genuinely harm readability and have no narrative function; mark functional writing as [需复核] and keep it.
• voice_profile.py check runs only when the input belongs to a novel project and the project root can be determined. If no profile has been established, return not_configured and continue; if the profile is outdated, first update the data source, and do not use the old scope to check new candidates. Style drift results only go into the issue marker table, do not count toward the light/medium/heavy classification, and do not automatically trigger rewriting.
• For long-form projects with at least three chapters of historical main text, run chapter_shape_gate.py. It only organizes evidence from recent chapters' openings/endings, Q&A, rule explanations, and surface shape, and answers the five questions according to references/cross-chapter-shape.md ; no similarity may automatically be judged as AI or trigger text changes.
• prose_metrics.py is the sole numerical source for sentence length, paragraph length, and the proportion of short/medium/long sentences; any agent's verbal estimate must not be written as "measured." The statistics are used to locate rhythm review points, not as hard quotas across genres.
• When the input belongs to a long-form project and the corresponding detailed outline can be determined, additionally run node scripts/check-outline-copy.js --outline <本章细纲> --fail-on=blocking <正文文件...>. For consecutive unregistered overlaps of 16 characters or more, first return to the hit scene and rewrite; the detailed outline 复沓锚句 only precisely exempts vows, system prompts, or case-file quotations that must loop verbatim. Scattered posts without a detailed outline do not run this item, and do not guess at pairing files.

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Phase 2: Evidence Layering and Disposition Decisions

No longer use a single "AI-flavor score" or "take the highest tier of any indicator" to decide full-text rewriting. First divide findings into three layers, then independently decide issue_density、rewrite_intensity and edit_scope：

Evidence layer	Typical findings	Default disposition
Deterministic hard gate	Language leakage, HTML/engineering metadata, truncation, verbatim degeneration, high-confidence toxic sentence patterns	blocking; fix only the hit unit and rescan
Local context	Stock phrases, parallelism, direct psychological narration, em dashes, sentence/paragraph statistics, concentrated dialogue tags	advisory; first read the scene function, and only make local changes if it truly applies
Cross-chapter structure	Converging character voices, Q&A becoming instructional, scene engines/chapter-end hooks repeatedly isomorphic	semantic review; provide evidence first, do not automatically rearrange

The user-readable overall description may still say "mild / concentrated / structural," but it only summarizes the distribution of problems:

• Mild: a few local problems with no spread among them; usually minimal + in-place。
• Concentrated: the same scene or same mechanism recurs; usually standard + bounded。
• Structural: Reuse the same expression skeleton across scenes or chapters; only mark issue_density as structural, and unless the user authorizes otherwise, do not automatically upgrade it to aggressive + structural。

Banned-word density, sentence/paragraph distribution, dialogue ratio, punctuation, and repetition counts are only responsible for locating issues. Do not write cross-genre fixed thresholds as an "objective AI score," and do not trigger the full seven Gates or rewrite key passages just because one statistic is high.

Load the "Systematic Three-Pass De-AI Method" from references/anti-ai-writing.md to get the full process. The three-pass method is selected according to the authorized rewrite intensity, and is no longer automatically triggered by the highest statistical tier:

• Pass 1 (de-generalization) covers Gate A's banned words, Gate C's abstract emotions, Gate D's neat parallelism, Gate E's rough scan of same-tone dialogue, Gate G's explanatory tone/God's-eye-view spoilers/soft judgments
• Pass 2 (de-formalization) covers formal-sounding words in Gate A and the deepening of sentence-pattern clichés in Gate B
• Pass 3 (restore naturalness) covers Gate D's long-short rhythm, Gate E's dialogue differentiation, Gate F's removal of elevation at the ending, and adding specific sensory details
• minimal: only handle Pass 1 local items that have evidence.
• standard: handle Pass 1 + Pass 2 for the matched scenes, and do Pass R.
• aggressive: run the full three passes and rewrite key paragraphs only when the user explicitly authorizes structural reworking.

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Phase 3: Item-by-item removal

The existing three-pass method and Gates A-G are the rewrite core for the candidate draft. After completion, two fixed-order delivery passes must be executed:

1. Pass F: Fidelity audit. Check item by item the protection ledger, character information boundaries, numbers and time, action subject and result, foreshadowing wording, and character voice. If anything is inconsistent, restore it first.
2. Pass R: Residual-flavor audit. By default, only check the changes made this round as marked by changed-spans.json , looking for template sentences, overly even rhythm, meaning tails, or converging voices newly introduced by the rewriter. Only when issue_density=structural or the user explicitly requests a full-text audit should it extend to the full-text structure.

If Pass F does not pass, entering Pass R is prohibited; fidelity has higher priority than thoroughness of de-flavoring.

Agent call: narrative-writer (de-AI execution)

After "Evidence Layering and Handling Decision" is completed, choose the execution path in the following order:

1. Already inside the narrative-writer subagent: execute Gates A-G directly inline; do not spawn again (nested spawn is silently downgraded).
2. Not inside a subagent and the current runtime has a corresponding definition/registry for narrative-writer（Claude .claude/agents/narrative-writer.md、OpenCode .opencode/agents/narrative-writer.md、TRAE Code .trae/agents/narrative-writer.md, WorkBuddy project mode .codebuddy/agents/narrative-writer.md、Codex .codex/agents/narrative-writer.toml): call the agent with the same name. TRAE Code uses the built-in Agent to select narrative-writer and uses the following prompt as the task body; Claude/OpenCode may use the equivalent subagent_type, and Codex uses agent_type. WorkBuddy project mode uses Agent(subagent_type: "narrative-writer", ...); plugin-only mode only uses that exact value when the current registry actually returns oh-story:narrative-writer , otherwise go to item 3:项目目录：{dir}\n任务描述：去AI味\n检查范围：{待处理的正文文件}\n问题分布：{issue_density}\n改写力度：{rewrite_intensity}\n修改范围：{edit_scope}\n证据层：{确定性硬门/局部语境/跨章结构发现}\n删除优先：每条问题先判能否删除——删后不丢伏笔/钩子/角色/情节/人物记忆/情绪承接/因果锚点/必要信息/必要转折的直接删，会丢才进 Gate 润色；看似解释/评价但承担小连贯的句子，压成白话承接、动作或物件锚点，不机械删除；已有任务/手续/物件/证据缺口可以压成角色当下要处理的具体卡点，但不新增原文没有的事件链；删除服从本轮改写力度上限与字数下限，跌破下限改降AI重写。\n模式处理：按 references/anti-ai-writing.md 的问题模式目录执行；模式 8（解释腔/上帝视角/安排感）归入 Gate G；结构信号只输出证据，不自动重排。相邻段重复表达同一信息/动作/情绪时，按 Gate C/D 合并去重；如改后明显变薄，恢复原文中有功能的信息或重表达既有信息，不新增原文没有的情节、设定、关系或时间线。
3. The agent does not exist or spawn fails: execute inline on the main thread.

Deletion-priority judgment (before each Gate)

For each marked item, first determine whether it can be deleted, then consider polishing—many AI-flavored sentences are filler (explanation, padding, quota-filling), and after polishing they are still redundant.

1. After deletion, would any foreshadowing, hooks, character traits, plot progression, necessary information, or necessary turns be lost? If none are lost, delete directly without entering a Gate.
2. If any one item is lost → keep the information and enter the corresponding Gate for rewriting (only delete the AI flavor of "how it is said", not "what is said").
3. Deletion is subject to the existing "over-de-AI-flavor protection" and this round's rewrite_intensity ratio upper limit: do not delete whole paragraphs, do not delete plot functions; if after deletion the word count falls below the lower limit, switch to de-AI rewriting, and do not pad the word count with new filler after deleting.
4. After deleting, read through: if a whole paragraph is left with only the shortest sentences, structural function words have been swept clean, and every action carries a "了一下"-style tail, that is over-deleted telegraphic style (see anti-ai-writing.md pattern 9) — restore non-peak narrative sentences to natural plain speech, not continue deleting. What is deleted is filler, not the natural redundancy of Chinese; this clause only adjusts the degree of deletion, and the cleanup intensity for banned words and clichéd sentence patterns is not reduced because of it.

The following are the detailed rules for each Gate (marked items that cannot be deleted are polished according to these; whether executed by an agent or the main thread, they must be followed):

Gate A: Banned word replacement

Load references/banned-words.md, and check item by item against the banned word list.

Whitelist mechanism：

The .deslop-whitelist file in the project root directory defines the exempted vocabulary for this project.

File schema:

• UTF-8 encoding, one word per line
• # Lines starting with
• are comments; blank lines are ignored; leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed

Case-sensitive (Chinese is not distinguished) .deslop-whitelist Matching rule: during scanning, if the substring corresponding to the segment hit by a banned word also exists in

, skip that warning. The matching method is consistent with banned-words.md, using substring scanning.：.deslop-whitelist The whitelist boundary of the language gate

can handle false positives for banned words; the language Gate only precisely exempts foreign-language tokens or complete short sentences that the user has separately confirmed need to be preserved verbatim, and the model must not add, generalize, or substring-match on its own. Explicitly non-narrative structures such as URLs, emails, code, paths, and filenames are mechanically protected by the detector and do not need a whitelist; HTML markup must not be exempted. .deslop-whitelist：

# 项目自定义豁免词（一行一个，# 开头为注释）
缓缓                # 主角"缓缓"是绰号，不算禁用词
仿佛山海             # 章名
深邃的山谷           # 设定地名

Example

• Whitelist applicable scenarios:
• Hit terms (such as specific terms in a fantasy novel that happen to match banned words)
• Character catchphrases / nicknames / setting proper nouns
• Worldview proper nouns

Rhetorical devices deliberately used in the original text .deslop-whitelist If

does not exist, creating it is not mandatory; state in the report that this file can be created. An empty whitelist file is equivalent to no whitelist.Protection rule priority [需复核]。

: preserve creative intent and plot function > de-AI Gate. Gates A-F can only change the way things are expressed; Gate G deletes non-story author explanations/narration (not plot). No Gate may delete foreshadowing, hooks, character traits, character memories, emotional continuity, causal anchors, key information, or necessary turns; when conflicts arise, switch to de-AI rewriting or mark

• Replacement rules:
• Banned word → concrete action/detail description
• Cannot simply be replaced with another adjective

Must use "show" to replace "tell"

• Example:
• ❌ "A flicker of imperceptible sadness passed through his eyes" → ✅ "He lowered his eyes"
• ❌ "A cold smirk curled at the corner of his mouth" → ✅ "He let out a cold laugh"

Gate B: De-formulaic Sentence Patterns

Detect and replace the following high-frequency AI sentence patterns:

Sentence Pattern	Problem	Alternative
Negation setup followed by affirmative reversal	most toxic one of the Chinese AI sentence patterns	Write the latter item directly, or change it to action/detail presentation
Cross-paragraph "not A / nor B / only C"	May be neat parallel arrangement, or may be justification, suspense elimination, or emotional progression	formulaic-parallelism advisory; read through the context and compress only when it repeats the outline or slows down the imagery
"As for whether X or not, how to X" / same verb "not V A, not V B"	Neat decision column, negation checklist; may also appear in normal dialogue	Review against the context; if it merely restates the previous text or detailed outline, compress it into a single judgment or keep only one item
"..., with..."	All-purpose adverbial, AI's favorite	Use an independent short sentence or action description
"The voice was not loud, yet carried..."	AI's favorite voice description	Directly write the voice characteristics or action
Clichés/all-purpose metaphors	Formulaic metaphors reveal an AI tone	Prioritize direct plain description; when a metaphor is truly needed, keep only a few lifelike, character-based metaphors
"He/she knew..."	Telling the reader directly	Show cognition through behavior
Dialogue tag density too high/formulaic tags	Tagging every sentence becomes mechanical	Ordinary "said" can be kept; when high-frequency or formulaic, replace with action/context
"as if/like/as though/just like"	Overly heavy classical tone	Colloquial expression or plain description
"indisputable/obvious"	Written judgment words	Let concrete facts speak

Modifier cleanup: Check the adjectives, attributives, adverbs, demonstrative pronouns, and measure words before objects/characters; delete any that are superfluous. Delete only if reading is unaffected after deletion; if meaning is lost, change to a concise noun.

Example:

• "white pill" → "pill"
• "speeding car" → "car"
• "that stretch of chain in his hand" → "chain"
• "clothes of many years" → "old clothes" (preserve meaning)

Adjective principle: use only one adjective to modify at a time, or none; do not use them in succession or pile them up.

Gate C: Externalize Psychological Description

Features of AI-written psychological description: directly stating emotions.

Replacement strategies:

• "He was very nervous" → "His hands were shaking"
• "She was very angry" → "She flipped the table over with one shove"
• "He was very afraid" → "He held the door frame, unable to step in for a long time"
• "She was very sad" → "She turned away and crumpled her cuff"
• "He felt a trace of disappointment" → "He paused for a moment and put the phone back in his pocket"

Deduplicate Repeated Descriptions: When adjacent paragraphs repeatedly express the same information, the same action, or the same emotion, handle according to Gate C/D; do not start a separate dedicated process.

Handling method:

• Merge repeated descriptions of the same moment, keeping the details that best drive emotion or plot
• If the original splits one action into "action summary → sensory details → bodily reaction," change it into the same continuous scene
• If the pace becomes too fast after merging, restore the information in the original that has a function, or change existing information into more natural action/dialogue expression; do not append a descriptive layer after the original action, and do not add plot that was not in the original

Example:

• ❌ "He picked up the pen. His hand was shaking. The tip stopped again."
• ✅ "He picked up the pen, and the tip had barely touched the paper before it veered off; he pressed down on his wrist twice, but both times it would not steady."

Four types of semantic repetition(Do not express the same meaning repeatedly; keep only one most suitable and concise version):

Category	Incorrect example	Fix
Adjective repetition	"ran over laughing joyfully"	"ran over laughing"
Synonym repetition	"a very important key issue"	"key issue"
Meaning repetition	"I'm so hungry, my stomach is growling"	"I'm so hungry"
Repetition of subject/object from context	If the preceding text says "scattered antidepressant pills all over the floor," the following text need not say "the antidepressant pills on the floor" again, only "the pills"	Vague, concise, and colloquial is enough

Unnecessary scene/character/object description: Directly delete decorative description that does not serve the plot or characters.

Example:

• "You Huo held a short knife in his hand, its blade cold and sharp" → "You Huo held a short knife in his hand"
• "The handcuffs tightly locked around both their wrists, with a not particularly long chain connecting them in the middle" → "The handcuffs locked around both their wrists, with a chain connecting them in the middle"
• "In the exam venue of the polar blizzard, the wind and snow showed no sign of stopping" → "In the exam venue of the polar blizzard"

Gate D: Rhythm adjustment

Rhythm problems in AI writing: sentence patterns are too neat, paragraphs are too symmetrical.

Handling method:

• Break up consecutive parallel sentences (keep 1-2, delete the rest)
• Only split long sentences with bloated modifiers, stacked metaphors, and abstract summaries; after rewriting, the narration should still mainly use long comma sentences (see rule 3 in anti-ai-writing.md); do not split normal long comma sentences into strings of short sentences
• Occasionally use incomplete sentences (colloquial feel)
• Alternate long and short paragraphs (do not make every paragraph 3-5 lines)
• Do not format by rigid metrics: high-scoring Tomato samples are not 50-60 characters per line, nor do they always break lines at every period; break paragraphs naturally according to changes in action/information, as long as it reads smoothly
• Punctuation rhythm follows tone: avoid making the whole text period-heavy; keep functional ？ / a small amount of ！ / …… / ——. Only change when there is nonfunctional repetition, random piling up, or an explicit project ban; punctuation itself must not be treated as evidence of AI identity

Gate E: Remove affectation from dialogue

Features of AI-written dialogue: every sentence is complete in information, clear in logic, and precise in expression.

Handling method:

• Add colloquial expressions ("mm" "oh" "alright then")
• Interrupt dialogue appropriately (characters may answer off-topic); when dialogue is interrupted or dragged out, first check the book's existing voice, and use action, line breaks, short sentences, or low-frequency functional pause punctuation
• Interleave action with dialogue ("She took a sip of water. 'And then?'")
• Delete explanatory dialogue (characters won't spell out their own motives clearly)
• Gate B likewise checks dialogue: consecutive neat negations,至于X不X，怎么X, same verb 不V A，不V B must not slip past review just because the script's dialogue is exempt; keep only when there is a clear character/task function
• Don't force-expand dialogue just to hit a ratio; Tomato's dialogue proportion fluctuates with genre, and dialogue should be added only when the character would truly say it at this moment and must say it
• Slips of the tongue, pauses, profanity and repetition must serve the character's identity and emotion, not be added in bulk as "real-person feel" decoration
• Don't change all dialogue endings to periods: keep question marks for interrogations, keep a small number of exclamation marks at emotional peaks; for swallowed/mid-sentence cutoffs, choose action, short sentences, line breaks or low-frequency pause punctuation according to the character's voice

Gate F: remove the ending's elevation

AI writing's ending trait: always wanting to summarize, elevate, drive home the theme.

Handling method:

• Delete summarizing statements
• End with action/scene, not with sentimentality
• If the ending has "He knew..." "At this moment..." → it can basically be deleted

Gate G: remove explanatory tone/God's-eye view/sense of arrangement

The hardest-to-notice, most "AI-like" category (corresponds to pattern 8 in anti-ai-writing.md). The narrator jumps out of the character's present to explain, spoil, summarize, define or elevate, and the reader smells "the author is present/the plot is arranged".

Handling method:

• Delete explanation of cause and effect: "The reason... is because", "It turned out...", "This means" → delete; let the reader piece together cause and effect from action and dialogue.
• Delete God's-eye-view spoilers: "What she didn't know was", "Little did they know", "Many years later", "As if foretelling" → delete.
• Delete defining things for the reader: "What a good performance", "She had seen this play before", "He was just that heartless" → delete, leave the evidence for the reader to judge.
• Delete hidden soft judgments: judgmental adverbs ("concerned just the right amount"), spoiler call-outs ("she saw that little smile clearly"), defining metaphors ("like pronouncing a sentence long since decided") → delete, or change to the character's momentary biased feeling at this moment.
• Note: what Gate G deletes is "non-story authorial narration", not plot. If it becomes thin after deletion, make up for it with character action/dialogue, not narrator explanation.

Boundaries for fixing task checkpoints: task checkpoints are not a fixed formula, nor a universal add-process button. When the original already has tasks, evidence, procedures or object gaps, you can compress explanation and summary into concrete checkpoints the character must handle right now; when the original has no gaps, only delete explanation or change it to action/dialogue, and do not invent new plot. For every checkpoint, first do "try deleting it": if after deletion no foreshadowing, hook, information, relationship change or necessary turn is lost, compress or delete it.

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Phase 4: Deterministic wrap-up (file mode)

When the input is a main-text file path, and "item-by-item clearing" has already been written to disk,firstrerun the independent language gate, and after it passes, do a sentence-pattern/paragraph re-scan,finallyonly clean up deterministic formatting issues; enable --pause-mode normalize：

node scripts/language_gate.js <正文文件...>
node scripts/check-style-hygiene.js --check --fail-on=blocking <正文文件...>
node scripts/check-ai-patterns.js --check --fail-on=blocking <正文文件...>
node scripts/check-degeneration.js --check --language=zh --fail-on=blocking <正文文件...>
"$PYBIN" scripts/prose_metrics.py <正文文件...>
"$PYBIN" scripts/voice_profile.py check --project "{项目目录}" --candidate "{候选正文}"
"$PYBIN" scripts/chapter_shape_gate.py --project "{项目目录}" --candidate "{候选正文}" --chapter {N} --window 6
node scripts/normalize-punctuation.js <正文文件...>
# 仅当项目/平台明确禁用长停顿标点：
node scripts/normalize-punctuation.js --pause-mode normalize <正文文件...>

Scope of effect:

• check-ai-patterns.js only reports, does not rewrite: for high-confidence categories with severity=blocking, prioritize revising the hit units and re-scanning;em-dash, sentence and paragraph statistics and other advisory items should first be read through and judged, and revised only if they are truly outline-like, explanatory or template-like; mark functional writing as [需复核]。
• It is only a readability hint; for complete categories, exceptions, and fix methods see references/anti-ai-writing.md。
• check-degeneration.js Report model degradation (verbatim repetition/looping, truncation at the end, placeholders, engineering-word leakage 细纲/情节点, English sentences/raw words in Chinese body text, etc.), each item with severity: blocking|advisory. For blocking items such as repetition/truncation/refusal phrases, regenerate the affected paragraphs; for language blocking, change unauthorized English back to Chinese. Both types must be rescanned to zero before delivery; foreign languages may be retained only after the user separately confirms and precisely registers them, and skipping de-flavoring does not affect this gate.
• prose_metrics.py Deterministically output the actual sentence-segment distribution; report references the script JSON, and narrative-writer must not supplement or estimate it. For long works with a clear detailed-outline path, in the same round additionally run this skill's local check-outline-copy.js, and unregistered consecutive copying is blocking.
• normalize-punctuation.js By default only clean deterministic formatting issues such as Markdown separators in the body text, and preserve the book's pause punctuation and quotation style;--pause-mode normalize only then clear ……、——/— and double hyphen --. No write mode changes functional ？ / a small amount of ！ into periods.
• Zhihu Yanyan short pieces may retain 「」; only when the user or project explicitly requires it, add --quote-mode ascii or --quote-mode yan。
• to the punctuation script. In dialogue, —— indicating interruption or prolongation is retained by default according to context; change it only when the project explicitly disables it and enables --pause-mode normalize . Non-functional punctuation pileups are still handled by manual Gate D/E judgment.
• These scripts are all story-deslop local copies and do not reference files from other skills.
• The voice profile report covers both high and low directions; after a hit, you must return to the specific paragraph and scene function for judgment. The profile itself is advisory; only 'the profile is outdated/sample summary inconsistent' counts as a data-integrity blocker.

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Phase 5: Output polishing results

## 去AI味润色报告

### 字数协议
- 原文字符数：{N0}
- 修订后字符数：{N1}
- 净变化：{N1 - N0}（{百分比}）
- 是否在 tier 上限内：{是 / 否（超限 X%，已分段并标注 [需复核]）}

### 修改统计
- 总修改数：{N} 处
- 禁用词替换：{N} 处
- 句式调整：{N} 处（含否定翻转句式 {N}、"，带着..." {N}、声音描写 {N}）
- 修饰词清扫：{N} 处
- 心理外化：{N} 处
- 重复描写合并：{N} 处
- 监控动作清单合并：{N} 处
- 重复语义去重：{N} 处（形容词重复 {N}、近义词重复 {N}、含义重复 {N}、主语重复 {N}）
- 比喻处理：{N} 处（删除/保留/改回具体画面）
- 节奏调整：{N} 处
- 对话优化：{N} 处
- 标点节奏调整：{N} 处（保留本书有功能标点，清理无功能堆砌；项目明确要求时记录规范化模式）
- 结尾修正：{N} 处

### 修改前后对比
{逐段展示修改，标注改动类型；超过 30 处时仅展示前 10 处 + 末 5 处 + 其余按 Gate 分桶计数}

### 润色后全文
{**文件模式（默认；章节/正文文件、批量与长篇去AI）**：通过 Edit/Write 直接改写落盘，本节只回 ≤200 字代表性片段，不向父会话返回全文。**文本模式（仅限交互式贴入、无文件路径的零散片段）**：完整输出润色后的文本。}

Hard word-count constraint: the deletion ratio must not exceed the authorized rewriting strength limit for this round (minimal ≤15%、standard ≤25%、aggressive ≤35%). When exceeded, output in sections and mark it in the report; do not delete entire paragraphs of body text.

Convergence termination：

1. If the same paragraph has no new changes after two consecutive rounds of de-AI processing → stop processing that paragraph
2. Full-text cap of 3 rounds of rescanning; if round 3 still has ≥10 changes → mark in the report [需复核], hand over to manual review
3. Before the end of each round, do a 'check again': are there any nonconformities? If yes, continue; if no, stop

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Use cases

Scenario	Action
The user pastes a passage and says 'too AI'	Execute the full detection + polishing process
The user says 'help me polish'	First detect AI flavor, then polish
The user says 'check whether there is AI flavor'	Only detect, do not modify
The user requests during writing 仅标注 / 只检测 / 不要改	Embedded reminder mode: execute 'AI-flavor scan' and 'evidence layering and disposition decision', skip 'item-by-item removal', 'deterministic finishing', and 'output polishing results'; output a problem-marker table (including a Gate column), do not modify the original text, and do not write files

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Reference materials

Load the following files on demand:

File	When to load
references/banned-words.md	When detecting and replacing prohibited words
references/anti-ai-writing.md	Complete guide to de-AI flavor: prevention + three-pass method + examples
references/pattern-contracts.json	Machine-readable candidate contracts for semantic pattern audits
references/dialogue-craft-moderate.md	Lightweight dialogue cards and generation methods for important dialogue scenes
references/dialogue-attribution-drift.md	Detection and repair boundaries for long-range drift in dialogue attribution markers
references/accepted-voice-profile.md	When establishing local voice baselines, bidirectional drift alerts, and blind test packages using accepted main text from this book
references/cross-chapter-shape.md	For long candidates or structural de-flavoring, review recent-chapter scene engines, Q&A didacticism, and chapter-ending isomorphism
references/style-hygiene.md	Configure main-text hygiene boundaries for publication-level, dialogue-flexible, or lenient review; distinguish stylistic preferences from deterministic contamination
scripts/normalize-punctuation.js	After file-mode writes are persisted, perform deterministic punctuation cleanup; preserve quotation style by default
scripts/check-style-hygiene.js	After the language gate, intercept emojis, kaomoji, Martian text, punctuation stacking, and invisible characters; do not change the plot
scripts/check-ai-patterns.js	File-mode "AI-flavor scan" precheck and "deterministic cleanup" rescan (only looking at narration outside quotation marks), report only without rewriting
scripts/check-degeneration.js	File-mode precheck and "deterministic cleanup" rescan; explicitly use for Chinese main text --language=zh --fail-on=blocking
scripts/prose_metrics.py	File-mode empirically measures short/medium/long sentences, average sentence length, average paragraph length, and sentence-paragraph ratio; used only as rhythm evidence
scripts/check-outline-copy.js	Detect continuous copying when the text is long and the corresponding detailed outline is explicit, and consume 复沓锚句 precise exemptions
scripts/voice_profile.py	Establish, validate, and update this book's voice profile; candidate checks output only advisory, and expired profiles block use
scripts/chapter_shape_gate.py	Extract structural surface evidence and five-question cold-read cards from the most recent three to twelve chapters; advisory only, no automatic text changes

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Process integration

Pipeline: General Location: Polishing (shared cleanup)

Timing	Jump to	Command
Continue writing	story-long-write / story-short-write	/story-long-write or /story-short-write
Discover structural issues	story-long-analyze / story-short-analyze	/story-long-analyze or /story-short-analyze
Prepare to make a cover	story-cover	/story-cover

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Language

• Reply in the user's language; use whatever language the user uses
• Chinese replies follow the Chinese Copywriting Style Guide

Chinese main-text language acceptance Gate (mandatory)

After the main-text first draft is complete, the first gate runs according to references/language-gate-loop.md run scripts/language_gate.js. When mixed Chinese-English text or HTML markup is found, the line numbers, original fragments, and containing lines must be returned to the original main-text writer; recheck after revision. Only when the Gate return code is zero may other checks, de-flavoring, tracking commits, or the next chapter proceed. The Gate does not automatically translate or automatically add whitelist entries; other foreign languages that truly need to be preserved verbatim must be precisely registered after separate user confirmation.

Chinese main-text style hygiene Gate (mandatory)

After the language gate returns zero, follow main-text style hygiene gate run node scripts/check-style-hygiene.js --check --fail-on=blocking "{正文文件}". The default publication-level policy blocks emojis, kaomoji, Martian text, repeated decorative punctuation, and invisible characters;？！、…… Functional novel punctuation such as these are not within the default blocking scope. Authors can use this book's 设定/文风.md select dialogue flexibility or per-category policy; tools must not secretly loosen it on the author's behalf; verbatim exceptions are written only to .style-hygiene-whitelist, and do not affect the language gate.

Moderate dialogue techniques and degradation checks (mandatory)

Before writing important dialogue scenes, first follow references/dialogue-craft-moderate.md to form a lightweight dialogue card, with structural reference to references/dialogue-scene-card.schema.json. The main text mixes untagged dialogue, simple "said/asked", effective actions, and narrative reactions, without pursuing zero tags or subtext in every sentence. After passing the Chinese language gate, run scripts/dialogue_drift_gate.js: explicit degradation such as continuous sentence-by-sentence announcement can block, while tag density, verb concentration, and cross-chapter drift serve only as warnings and enter semantic review. Only after semantic review confirms that character voices are distinguishable, actions have independent value, subtext is appropriate in amount, and multi-person scenes are clear, may subsequent acceptance continue.

This book's voice profile gate (when sufficient accepted samples are available)

The complete protocol is in accepted main text voice profile. For new projects, sample only from committed chapter receipts; for old projects without receipts, the author must explicitly approve a continuous range of old chapters. The accepted baseline and the author-curated golden samples are maintained separately; candidate checks output two-way advisories respectively, and can generate a blind test package with hidden source labels. After a new chapter receipt loop is closed, only the accepted baseline is updated; the golden set must not automatically absorb new chapters. When any profile hash is outdated, old data must not continue to be used.

Recent-chapter structural fingerprint gate (for long works with at least three chapters of history)

According to recent-chapter structural fingerprint and semantic cold read , run scripts/chapter_shape_gate.py. Script similarity, question-answer pairs, and ending types all provide evidence only; the main Agent must answer the five questions and point to specific chapters/paragraphs. Structural isomorphism cannot be automatically rewritten; if accepted main text needs to be rearranged, it must be transferred to revision governance.