style-memory-and-revision-gate

name	style-memory-and-revision-gate
description	Use before delivering dissertation documents, proposal drafts, supervisor notes, or major chat answers when the user's preferred output style matters, especially to apply decision-first structure, two-track Thinking Pack/Decision Brief patterns, prohibited-phrase checks, and revision accountability.

Style Memory And Revision Gate

Use this skill as a final language and structure gate for dissertation outputs, especially after drafting or revising proposal, methodology, ethics, supervisor-facing, or knowledge-base documents.

Purpose

Make outputs match the user's established preferences without weakening academic rigour.

Style Memory

Default chat answer:

1. Conclusion or recommended action first.
2. Two to four key reasons.
3. Necessary explanation only when it affects the judgement or next action.
4. Clear next step or 待确认.

Default Chinese explanation:

• Lead with the usable answer, decision, or recommended action.
• Give compact reasons after the decision.
• Use examples only when they change the user's next action.
• Avoid long lists of rejected options before the answer.
• Keep wording direct and practical.

Major dissertation planning output:

• Create a Thinking Pack when the user needs to think through route, gap, methodology, or supervisor questions.
• Create a Decision Brief when the user needs a quick recommendation or supervisor-facing summary.
• Use both when the task is substantial and the user has not asked for only one format.

Document revision output must state:

• what changed
• why it changed
• where the new file is
• what still needs confirmation

Pre-Delivery Gate

Before sending the answer or document summary:

1. Check that the recommendation appears before extended reasoning.
2. Remove generic AI-style phrasing.
3. Remove repetitive meta-commentary about the user's intentions.
4. Keep weak alternatives only if they help the decision.
5. Check whether formal writing also needs uk-academic-writing-style.
6. Check whether formal documents also need dissertation-source-first-gate and dissertation-document-quality-gate.
7. If the user wants journal-informed style, check the contribution box: problem, gap, method, contribution, boundary, implication.

For generated files, apply the style gate to the file text, not only to the final chat summary:

• scan the source Markdown or extracted document text before Word conversion or delivery;
• check Chinese explanation sections, bilingual drafts, captions, and callout boxes;
• treat negative-contrast phrasing as a delivery-blocking issue when the user's preferred style requires direct recommendation-first wording;
• rewrite the affected sentence before rendering whenever the file is intended for the user, supervisor, or later proposal work.

De-AI And Style Checklist

For Chinese chat answers, remove or rewrite:

• empty closing formulas
• cliché balance phrases
• vague academic filler
• binary contrast phrasing that denies one framing before switching to another
• claims about what the user "really wants"
• repeated setup sentences before the answer
• overlong exclusion lists when the useful answer can be given first

For English dissertation prose, check:

• British English spelling and phrasing
• cautious academic stance: suggests, may, is likely to, can be understood as
• no inflated claims beyond the evidence
• no generic AI transitions such as in today's rapidly evolving landscape
• no excessive signposting when one clear sentence works
• no unnecessary em dashes when a comma, semicolon, or clause is cleaner
• no detector-evasion framing, AI-score promises, or disclosure hiding; use authorial-voice-integrity for those requests

For supervisor-facing writing, prefer:

• precise research language over motivational language
• decision and rationale over broad concept explanation
• unresolved items labelled as TO CONFIRM

Two-Track Output Rule

When the user needs both thinking support and a decision:

• Thinking Pack: explains the problem space, options, evidence boundary, and questions to discuss.
• Decision Brief: gives the recommended route, 2-4 reasons, and immediate next action.

When the user asks for a concise answer, skip the Thinking Pack.

Revision Accountability

For revised files, report:

Changed:
- ...

Reason:
- ...

File:
- ...

待确认:
- ...

Guardrails

• Do not compress away evidence boundaries, source uncertainty, ethics cautions, or unresolved fields.
• Do not use style rules to bypass citation checks.
• Do not use style rules to bypass AI-use disclosure or detector-evasion boundaries.
• Do not claim a document is submission-ready unless evidence, formatting, and unresolved fields have been checked.