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Adds patterns for unclear pronouns and label fragments - #248

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@austinderrick austinderrick commented Aug 28, 2026

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Two patterns come up often in AI prose and are not covered yet.

Pattern 36 flags a pronoun that points at nothing. A sentence opens with This, That, or It standing for the whole idea before it rather than a noun, so the reader has to work out what the pronoun stands for. The same habit produces all of it and any of it where no antecedent exists. The pattern also catches the case where two nouns compete and the nearer one gives the wrong reading.

Pattern 37 flags a noun phrase punctuated as a sentence. Writers do this most often in a subtitle, a summary line, or the first line of a section. The phrase names a topic but makes no claim.

Pattern 37 also states its own boundary, because two patterns sit close to it. Pattern 31 covers short sentences used for drama. Pattern 13 covers dropped subjects in instructions. Pattern 37 covers a label standing where a sentence belongs.

Both new patterns carry a limit, in the style of #34 and #35. The skill leaves clear pronouns alone, and it does not rewrite headings, table cells, or list items where a label is the right form.

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Adds two patterns to the skill. Pattern 36 covers a pronoun that stands
for the whole idea before it rather than a noun, which leaves the reader
to work out the referent. Pattern 37 covers a noun phrase punctuated as
a sentence, most often in a subtitle, a summary line, or the first line
of a section.

Pattern 37 names its boundary with the two nearby patterns, since
pattern 31 already covers short sentences used for drama and pattern 13
covers dropped subjects in instructions. Both new patterns carry a limit
so that clear pronouns, headings, table cells, and list items stay
untouched.

Updates the README table and count, the AGENTS.md count, and the
validator range, and bumps the package version to 2.12.0.
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@austinderrick austinderrick changed the title Add patterns for unclear pronouns and label fragments Adds patterns for unclear pronouns and label fragments Aug 28, 2026
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blader commented Sep 6, 2026

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Closing. A vague "this" and a noun phrase punctuated as a sentence are general editing advice, not signs of AI writing. The skill's false-positive section makes that distinction on purpose: dry writing without specific tells is just dry writing.

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