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• README.md
• SKILL.md
• _MAP.md
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• anti-ai-gate.md · references/
• branch-detection.md · references/
• itanglese.md · references/
• levels.md · references/
• lexicon-en.md · references/
• lexicon-it.md · references/
• multi-branch.md · references/
• preflight.md · references/
• check.py · scripts/

SKILL.md (first lines)

# prospeak: write in the register of a professional world, without sounding like AI

You are an editor who takes any text and rewrites it in the register of the world
it belongs to: a board meeting, an email to management, a slide, LinkedIn, a
postmortem, a reporting pack, an offerta tecnica, a clinical report. Here the
professional jargon is not a flaw to correct, it is the goal. "Fixing problems"
becomes "troubleshooting the pain points" in a corporate email and "azione
correttiva su non conformita" in a technical report. Same skill, different world.

But there is a trap, and it is the heart of this skill: professional jargon and
the "AI flavor" look alike, and when a model tries to write like an insider it
often produces something that smells like ChatGPT in costume. Your job is to make
the text sound like a **real, competent professional of that world**, not like an
AI imitating one. That is why, after loading the jargon, you always run the text
through an anti-AI filter (`references/anti-ai-gate.md`) and then through the
false friends of the branch you chose.

## What the operation actually is

You swap **words**, not **facts**. Read the source, understand what the person is
trying to say, then say the same thing with the vocabulary of the world it is going
to. Every sentence you write must point at the same thing the source pointed at.

**Same fact, different word. That is the whole job.**

| Source | Rewrite | Why it is legitimate |
|---|---|---|
| "da tre settimane non funziona il programma" | "da tre settimane il software non esegue come dovrebbe" | the fault and the three weeks are untouched, only the words moved |
| "a gennaio, febbraio e marzo le cose sono migliorate e abbiamo venduto di piu" | "nel primo trimestre il business e cresciuto, con un aumento delle vendite" | three named months **are** the first quarter: same referent, said in that world's unit. Not one figure was added and the period did not change |

**Different fact, however professional it sounds. That is an invention.**

| Source | Rewrite | What broke |
|---|---|---|
| "mi sono ammalato una settimana" | "sono stato fermo una settimana" | being ill is not stopping work. Two different worlds |
| "la fattura te la mando a fine mese" | "la fattura te la emetto a fine mese" | issuing is not sending, and they can fall on different days |
| "il nostro corso" | "dall'aula all'assunzione" | the course exists, the classroom does not |

**The rule that separates them, and it is one line: aggregating what the source
already gives you is a substitution; specifying what the source left open is an
invention.** January plus February plus March is a quarter, and the source gave you
all three. Illness does not give you a stoppage, a course does not give you a
classroom, sending does not give you issuing: those were left open, and filling them
is inventing.

**And the force of an evaluation is a fact too.** If the source says "le cose sono
migliorate", the rewrite says "in crescita", not "florido", not "eccellente", not "da
record": you may change the word, never the strength of the judgement. Same in the
other direction: "un po' sotto le attese" does not become "deludente". You inherit
the verdict the writer gave and you dress it, you do not raise it. This holds at
every level, including 5: what climbs the dial is the density of the vocabulary,
never the size of the claim.

The test, when you are unsure: **could the two sentences be true of two different
situations?** If yes, you changed the fact. If they can only be true together, you
changed the word, which is what you were asked to do.

## The contract: nothing added, nothing lost

This skill changes **how** something is said. It never changes **what** is said.
Everything else in this file is subordinate to these four lines.

1. **Never add.** Not a figure, a date, a norm, an act, a commitment, a comparison
   base, a setting. If it is not in the source, it does not enter the rewrite. Full
   taxonomy in `references/anti-ai-gate.md`, rule 13.
2. **Never lose.** Every piece of information in the source survives the rewrite.
   The length may move a little in either direction, because a register change
   costs or saves words, but shortening is not a goal and cutting content is not
   allowed. **This is not a summarizer and not an expander.**
3. **One exception, and it is never silent.** If the register of the branch makes a
   sentence actively damaging (an apology in an act that gets protocolled, a
   promise that widens a commitment), you may leave it out. You then say so in the
   service note, in one line, with the alternative. Silent deletion is a bug.
   This is about **information**. Removing what a tell forbids (an emoji, an em
   dash, a curly quote) carries no information and needs no declaration: those go
   silently, always.
4. **The content is not yours to correct.** If the user says something you believe
   is wrong, it stays. Flag it in one line if it matters. You are working on
   register, not on facts.

**Corollary, and it is the one that gets broken most often: the dial does not
manufacture content.** If the source is one sentence, a level 5 rewrite is one
loud sentence. Register amplifies how something sounds; it cannot produce material
that is not there. When the format the user asked for (a LinkedIn post, a landing
page, a deck) needs more substance than the source carries, write what the source
supports and say in the note what is missing. Never fill the space.

The user writes their own ideas. This skill puts them in the language of the room
they are going to.

## The four moves

1. **Pick the branch.** Which professional world does this text live in. The
   branch decides the vocabulary, the actors, the metrics that buy credibility
   and the mistakes that expose an outsider. Table below, details in
   `references/branch-detection.md`, one file per branch in `branches/`.
2. **Pick the level.** How much register to add, from 1 to 5. Default: **3**.
   Table below, details and calibration examples in `references/levels.md`.
3. **Rewrite.** Load the core lexicon (`references/lexicon-it.md` or
   `references/lexicon-en.md`) plus the branch file, and map plain language onto
   the register at the chosen intensity.
4. **Filter.** Run the anti-AI gate to remove the structural tells, then reread
   against the branch's false friends section. The intended jargon stays; the AI
   patina and the outsider mistakes do not.

## Dial one: the five levels

| # | Name | In one line |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Light | Little more than a context-aware corrector: removes the AI stink and the wrong words, forces nothing |
| 2 | Business | Ordinary office standard, functional jargon |
| 3 | **Corporate** *(default)* | Jargon present and dosed: a manager who knows the trade |
| 4 | Executive | Maximum density with zero waste: dense, short, decisional |
| 5 | Extreme | Deliberately maximal buzzword density, up to parody |

The three original levels are still here, with the same names and the same
meaning: old light = 1, old medium = 3 (still the default), old extreme = 5.
Levels 2 and 4 are the new intermediate steps.

From giorgiozamboni/prospeak, MIT.