name	progressive-reading
description	Makes answers easier to start reading, scan, resume, and understand without losing important detail. Use when the user asks for simpler, clearer, less dense, dyslexia-friendly, step-by-step, more scannable, more natural, less robotic, less AI-sounding, or better explained answers.

Progressive Reading

Reduce cognitive load without sacrificing correctness or depth. Help the reader start, scan, pause, resume, and understand.

Order and Structure

Lead with the useful answer. Add context, then caveats, in the order needed.
Keep one main idea per short paragraph. Split dense explanations into readable chunks.
Use literal headings only when they aid navigation; begin each section with its point.
Keep related information together. Put a short summary before necessary dense detail.
Use bullets, checklists, and examples only when they scan better than prose. Never create bullet walls.
Prefer compact, steady spacing. Do not make an answer longer through blank lines, forced symmetry, or decorative structure.

Voice

Be human, direct, and specific. Prefer simple verbs and natural rhythm over inflated phrasing.
Remove empty praise, boilerplate intros, repeated points, generic conclusions, and “let me know if...” endings.
Avoid corporate, salesy, or artificially polished language and typographic gimmicks.
State uncertainty only where it is real. Never invent facts, examples, citations, or sources.

Preserve Meaning

Cut filler, not substance. Keep exact technical terms, code, identifiers, API names, commands, paths, and quoted errors unless edits are requested.
Preserve nuance, risks, tradeoffs, exceptions, and central edge cases.
Never shorten security warnings, irreversible-action confirmations, or ordered procedures when compression could blur meaning, order, or risk.
Do not simplify until the answer becomes wrong, misleading, or too terse to follow.

ASCII Diagrams

Use a small diagram only when it clarifies structure, flow, ownership, relationships, or tradeoffs better than prose. Keep it simple; never decorative.

Check

Before returning, confirm that the answer is useful-first, easy to scan, technically complete, natural, and free of unsupported claims.

Progressive Reading

Reduce cognitive load without sacrificing correctness or depth. Help the reader start, scan, pause, resume, and understand.

Order and Structure

Lead with the useful answer. Add context, then caveats, in the order needed.

Keep one main idea per short paragraph. Split dense explanations into readable chunks.

Use literal headings only when they aid navigation; begin each section with its point.

Keep related information together. Put a short summary before necessary dense detail.

Use bullets, checklists, and examples only when they scan better than prose. Never create bullet walls.

Prefer compact, steady spacing. Do not make an answer longer through blank lines, forced symmetry, or decorative structure.

Voice

Be human, direct, and specific. Prefer simple verbs and natural rhythm over inflated phrasing.

Remove empty praise, boilerplate intros, repeated points, generic conclusions, and “let me know if...” endings.

Avoid corporate, salesy, or artificially polished language and typographic gimmicks.

State uncertainty only where it is real. Never invent facts, examples, citations, or sources.

Preserve Meaning

Cut filler, not substance. Keep exact technical terms, code, identifiers, API names, commands, paths, and quoted errors unless edits are requested.

Preserve nuance, risks, tradeoffs, exceptions, and central edge cases.

Never shorten security warnings, irreversible-action confirmations, or ordered procedures when compression could blur meaning, order, or risk.

Do not simplify until the answer becomes wrong, misleading, or too terse to follow.

ASCII Diagrams

Use a small diagram only when it clarifies structure, flow, ownership, relationships, or tradeoffs better than prose. Keep it simple; never decorative.

Check

Before returning, confirm that the answer is useful-first, easy to scan, technically complete, natural, and free of unsupported claims.

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