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✂️ Em Dash Cliche Stripper
Flag every em-dash and AI transition cliché in a draft and get a plain replacement suggestion for each. Catches em-dashes (the "ChatGPT dash"), overused transition words and phrases (moreover, furthermore, "in today's digital age," delve), and dash-like punctuation doing vague connective work. It flags and suggests; you decide what to change.
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About this skill
Professional Prose Refinement
The Em Dash Cliche Stripper is a specialized utility designed for editors, technical writers, and developers who need to purge AI-generated artifacts and overused punctuation from their documentation or blog posts. It targets the "AI-voice" by identifying high-frequency transition cliches and excessive em-dash usage that often disrupt the flow of natural writing.
What it does
This skill performs a deep scan of your Markdown or text files using a structured audit checklist. It doesn't just find symbols; it analyzes the context of transitions to determine if they add value or act as "filler" prose. Key features include:
- Pattern Detection: Targets specific em-dash clusters and common AI-style transition phrases.
- Non-Destructive Audits: Flags issues with line-by-line evidence without altering your original files.
- Smart Replacements: Suggests plain-text alternatives to make your writing sound more human and direct.
Why use this skill?
Prompting a generic AI to "make this sound human" often results in more cliches. This tool uses a deterministic regex-based scanner and a curated audit checklist to provide objective, repeatable feedback. It’s a developer-centric way to maintain high editorial standards across large sets of documentation or content drafts.
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How to install
Drop the file into your AI Agent. Works with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and 20+ more.
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File Scopes
Read-only. Prints each hit with rule id, severity, file, line, and a suggested plain replacement. It reads no environment variables and writes nothing. Applying a suggestion is left to you or your agent.
Creator
JustHandled Labs builds focused agent skills for the work nobody wants to do by hand. Each one is a single repeatable job done well: catching the security and data mistakes that quietly ship, keeping docs and tests honest, gating the commands an agent is about to run, sharpening writing, and handling the founder chores around launches, outreach, and brand setup. Not generic AI productivity. Specific workflows that are easy to run, review, and repeat. Maintained by H.J. Westerfield, with a background in communications, editing, project coordination, customer support, and practical AI systems. Tools for people who want useful automation without theatrical complexity.
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