Clean retype

Agent skills that strip the AI tells from writing, code, and design, and build better working habits.

Install

npx -y skills add TheArmagan/skills --skill clean-retype

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Rewrite an existing piece of text from scratch, clean, applying every writing skill you have at once while keeping the original meaning and theme. Use this WHENEVER the user asks to "rewrite this", "clean this up", "re-type this", "make this not sound like AI", or hands you their own or generated copy to fix. Do not patch the text dash by dash; look at all the available writing-style skills (the ones in this collection plus any others installed), and produce one fresh version that satisfies them together. Preserve the content, facts, structure, and the user's voice; change only how it is written.

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Clean re-type

Patching prose one tell at a time leaves seams: you remove the em-dashes but the filler stays, you cut the filler but the curly quotes remain, and the result still reads as edited-by-machine. A clean re-type fixes that by rebuilding the text from scratch in one pass, with every writing skill applied at the same time, so the output is coherent rather than a patchwork. The content stays the same; only the writing changes.

The rule: when the user wants existing text made clean, do not do a find-and- replace sweep. Gather every relevant writing skill, then rewrite the piece as a whole so it satisfies all of them at once.

Gather the skills first

Do not work from memory of "the dash rule". Look at the writing-style skills you actually have available, in this collection and anything else installed, and apply the full set. The ones in this collection:

no-em-dashes, rewrite sentences so they never needed a dash.
no-fancy-ascii, only plain keyboard characters.
no-filler-phrases, cut empty openers and hype words.
no-ai-signoffs, no chatbot greetings or closers.
no-redundant-comments, if the text is code, drop comments that restate it.
honest-readme, if the text is a README, cut badge spam and superlatives.
talk-like-me, match the user's own voice.

If other style skills are installed, include them too. This is use-your-skills applied to a rewrite: read the real list, use what fits.

Rewrite, do not patch

Read the original, understand what it is trying to say, then write it again from a blank line. Building it fresh is what removes the seams: a dash becomes its own sentence, the filler simply never gets typed, the voice stays consistent throughout. A surface edit of the old text cannot get there.

Preserve the theme

The job is to change how it is written, not what it says.

Keep the meaning, the facts, the numbers, the claims. Do not add information the original did not have, and do not drop any it did.
Keep the structure and intent: a pricing page stays a pricing page, the headings stay, the call to action stays.
Keep the user's voice. If you have a voice profile (talk-like-me), the rewrite should still sound like them, just cleaner.
If something in the original is genuinely ambiguous, preserve it rather than inventing a reading. Flag it instead of guessing (dont-be-afraid-to-ask).

Before you deliver

Compare the rewrite against the original on two axes. First, meaning: does it say everything the original said, nothing more, nothing less? Second, cleanliness: run it past each writing skill in turn, dashes, fancy characters, filler, sign-offs, voice, and confirm no tell survived. If both hold, it is a clean re-type. If the rewrite drifted from the original meaning, pull it back.