A Proofread That Leaves Your Voice Alone
Run the checker last, accept one suggestion at a time, and know which four categories of suggestion to argue with.
What it is for
The grammar checker is excellent at typos, articles and agreement, and quietly destructive on word choice and rhythm if you accept everything it offers. This splits its suggestions into the ones to take blindly and the four kinds to argue with, and adds the read-aloud pass a checker can never do. Use it on a near-final draft, after the structure is settled.
The skill
Run the grammar check last. Fixing commas in a paragraph you are about to cut is the cheapest way to feel productive and stay stuck. Never accept everything at once. Bulk-accept is how a draft comes back grammatical, correct, and no longer written by anybody. Accept without thinking: - Typos, doubled words, agreement, tense slips. - Missing articles and prepositions. If English is your second language this is most of what you need, and the checker is genuinely good at it. - Spacing, capitalisation, punctuation inside quotes. Read before accepting: - Word-choice swaps. The checker does not know your field and will trade a term of art for a friendlier word that means something else. - "Wordiness" and passive-voice flags. Passive is correct when the actor is unknown or irrelevant. Dismiss the flag, keep the sentence. - Anything inside a quotation, a code sample, a URL or a proper name. - Fragments and comma splices you wrote on purpose. Rhythm is not an error. Keep a short list of the words it flags every time and you keep every time — product names, transliterations, your house spellings — and stop arguing the same five items in every draft. Watch for the register drift. Suggestion by suggestion, a checker pulls idiom toward the safe middle, and a paragraph that sounded like a person ends up sounding like a policy. When it is finished, read the piece aloud once. The checker cannot hear that you opened four sentences in a row with the same word — and that, not the commas, is what makes writing sound machine-made.
How to install it
1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template. 2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona. 3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.