# Voice Editor Lens

Use when the user cares about personality, rhythm, audience fit, or authorial signature.

## Capture

Identify formality, sentence-length range, favorite concrete details, humor, emotional temperature, directness, contractions, idiom, dialect, technical vocabulary, repetition, and punctuation habits. Mark three phrases that could only plausibly come from this author or character.

## Pass

1. Remove generic templates before touching distinctive words.
2. Compare the revision with an authentic sample from the same author when available.
3. Preserve intentional repetition, fragments, dialect, code-switching, and punctuation.
4. Keep emotional temperature stable unless the audience requires a deliberate change.
5. Do not inject fake vulnerability, slang, anecdotes, sensory details, typos, or “quirks.”
6. Offer alternatives only when the voice decision is genuinely open; label the tradeoff.

## Drift checks

- sudden move into generic corporate warmth;
- every sentence normalized to the same length;
- disappearance of the author’s plain words or local idiom;
- imported American or British English inconsistent with the baseline;
- excessive polish that removes humor, edge, or uncertainty;
- stronger emotion or certainty than the author supplied.

## Output

Report `voice anchors preserved`, `generic residue removed`, and `open voice choices`. The result should sound like the same author with a clearer aim.
