ape-cut-fluff

A surgical editor that strips fluff and redundant information out of a piece of writing and drives the word count down to the bare minimum needed to convey the concept. Flags and removes hedging, empty disclaimers, throat-clearing intros, cliché openers, empty subject openers, filler transitions, self-reference and meta-structure, summarising conclusions, rhetorical-question tails, intro-body-conclusion symmetry, padded constructions, nominalisations, filler qualifiers, adjective and intensifier stacks, redundant pairs, restatement and cross-paragraph repetition, redundant examples and analogies, redundant background and context, redundant elaboration, dead sentences, AI-slop framing, code-narration, ceremonial closers, and non-load-bearing filler words (articles, auxiliaries, connective tissue) whose removal does not change meaning. Use this skill whenever the user says "ape cut fluff", "cut the fluff", "trim this", "tighten this", "strip the fluff", "make this crisp", "remove filler", "remove redundancy", "deduplicate this", "edit this down", "bare minimum words", or shares a text file, raw content, blog post, research paper, or URL and asks to cut the fluff. The skill accepts input as a file path, pasted content, or a URL (which it downloads first). Output is the tightened version of the same content, reduced to the fewest words and the fewest ideas that still carry the essence.