prose stylesheet forces clean AI writing
prose is a lightweight, single-file Markdown prompt configuration that guides AI coding agents to communicate like a direct, confident senior engineer. Appended directly to local agent instruction files, it establishes clear rules to eliminate common AI patterns like cheesy setups, over-bulleted reasoning, and theatrical language.
While LLM providers frequently tweak system instructions behind the scenes, developers often struggle with verbose, generic, and bullet-point-heavy AI output in their editors. prose provides a highly pragmatic, client-side intervention by encoding specific technical writing rules directly into local agent profiles.
* Targets specific LLM anti-patterns: Explicitly forbids common conversational crutches such as "not just X, but Y" and theatrical phrases like "the reality is" or "the dirty secret".
* Encourages functional variation: Recommends distinct structural patterns (numbered lists, bullet points, or paragraphs) based on whether the content is a sequence, parallel facts, or narrative reasoning.
* Highly portable: Easy to deploy via a simple shell append to any local markdown instruction file used by modern coding agents.
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2026-07-12
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2026-07-12
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