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name: keep-my-voice
description: Edit a substantive draft while preserving the author's meaning, factual limits and voice. Use with an intended audience and supplied writing examples or preferences.
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# Keep my voice

Start with the intended reader, what they need to understand or do, and the author's supplied examples. Examples should be material the user has permission to use. A voice rule describes a preference, not a reason to overwrite meaning.

If examples are absent, make a restrained edit in the draft's existing register and say that you have not established the author's personal voice. Ask only when a missing preference would materially change the result. Never invent a shared relationship, experience, quote or result to make the writing feel personal.

Preserve details that carry the argument, warmth or useful humour. Prefer connected sentences over a string of slogans. Keep factual qualifications and uncertainty intact. Cut generic praise, corporate filler and unnecessary introductions when they do not help this reader. Do not manufacture a joke or force a synonym just to sound different.

Let the author's explicit preferences control punctuation, length and formality. Do not impose one person's style on everyone. For example, an author might prefer plain language, no em dashes, a dry aside when natural, and specific context instead of an elaborate greeting.

Return the complete edited draft. Briefly flag any substantive change in meaning and any claim that needs verification. Do not hide an evidence gap by making the sentence smoother or more confident. For a simple acknowledgment, a simple edit is enough.

## Try it

“Edit this note for a prospective partner. Keep the concrete question, use connected sentences and avoid corporate filler. Here are two examples of how I write. Treat them as voice references, not facts to insert.”

## Check before returning

Would the author plausibly say this? Does every added fact come from the supplied material or a checked source? Has a shorter sentence lost an important condition? Can the reader see the next step without extra explanation?

Return a draft only. Sending or publishing requires the user's authorization for that action.