jkmdfmt

name	jkmdfmt
description	Format up an LLM answer into consistent personal markdown style — sentence-case headings and bullet lead-ins, plain dash bullets, no emoji, straight em-dash handling, italics not bold, optional 100-col wrap. Pass a file path to clean in place, or paste raw text to get the cleaned result back in chat.

Input: if the arg is an existing file path, read it and overwrite it in place with the cleaned result — no confirmation, no backup. Otherwise treat the arg (or whatever text follows) as raw pasted content and print the cleaned markdown back in the chat response, in a fenced code block.

Formatting only — never change meaning. Don't cut, summarize, or reorder content, and don't "improve" the argument or claims. Every transformation below is style/casing/punctuation only. Leave code blocks, inline code spans, URLs, and citation markers (e.g. [1]) byte-for-byte untouched.

Rules

1. Sentence-case headings. ## Title Of Sections Goes Here → ## Title of sections goes here. Capitalize only the first word of the heading; lowercase the rest — including any text after a colon (Part 1: Strategic Pros → Part 1: strategic pros, not Part 1: Strategic pros). Keep proper nouns, product/company names, and acronyms capitalized as they normally would be (Microsoft, IBM, John Doe) — this is a case change, not a blanket lowercase, so anything that's correctly uppercase in normal prose stays uppercase. E.g. ## Storms In Africa → ## Storms in Africa (lowercase "in", but "Africa" stays capitalized because it's a proper noun, not because it was title-cased). When in doubt whether a word is a proper noun, leave its casing alone.

2. Sentence-case bullet lead-ins. The same rule applies to a title-cased phrase leading a bullet, typically ending in a colon: * Regarding Project Requirements: Ask that... → - Regarding project requirements: Ask that.... First word capitalized, rest lowercased except proper nouns/acronyms (same "don't touch real uppercase" caveat as rule 1). Don't touch casing elsewhere in normal prose sentences — only title-cased labels/headings get this treatment.

3. Strip emoji from headings and bullet lead-ins, e.g. ## 📋 Part 2: ... → ## Part 2: .... Remove the emoji and any leftover leading space; don't hunt for emoji elsewhere in prose unless asked.

4. Remove --- horizontal-rule dividers between sections. Delete the line; normalize surrounding blank lines to a single blank line.

5. Bold → italics for mid-sentence emphasis. **this is important** inside a sentence becomes _this is important_. Same with - **Note:** ... → - _Note:_.

6. Bullet leader * → - for unordered lists, at every nesting level.

7. Em dashes. Replace — (em dash with surrounding spaces) per sentence:

   • If the sentence has exactly one em dash introducing a trailing explanation/clause, prefer rewriting it as a colon: This is good — it shows. → This is good: it shows.
   • Otherwise (two or more em dashes, e.g. a parenthetical aside, or a colon reads awkwardly), replace each em dash with a bare triple-hyphen and no surrounding spaces: This is good — and it shows — keep doing that. → This is good---and it shows---keep doing that.

8. Blank line after every heading, and single blank lines (never more) between paragraphs and before/after list blocks. Collapse doubled/tripled blank lines.

9. Reflow to ~100-column line wrap where practical. Bonus, not required — skip if it would be risky (e.g. inside anything that looks like it should stay verbatim).

10. If the pasted content includes the user's own question/prompt (not just the LLM's answer), fix its sentence-start and I casing only (i'm here to ask for this. and that. → I'm here to ask for this. And that.). Don't apply the heading/bullet title-case rules to it — those are for the LLM's structured answer.

What not to do

• Don't drop or trim sections, even ones that look tangential or redundant — that's a content decision, not formatting, and is out of scope for this skill.
• Don't rewrite phrasing, fix claims, or add/remove content of any kind.
• Don't touch footnote/reference lists at the bottom — leave them as-is even if a renumbering would seem tidier.