{
  "schema_version": 2,
  "kind": "shortening-method",
  "format": "agent-skill",
  "id": "academic-tightening",
  "name": "Academic tightening",
  "category": "Writing",
  "summary": "Cut academic wordiness while preserving technical meaning and data.",
  "use_cases": [
    "Research paragraphs",
    "Thesis revisions",
    "Journal word limits"
  ],
  "word_count": 110,
  "url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/academic-tightening/",
  "instructions_url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/academic-tightening/SKILL.md",
  "skill_url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/academic-tightening/SKILL.md",
  "json_url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/academic-tightening/llms.txt",
  "plain_text_url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/academic-tightening/prompt.txt",
  "license": "CC0-1.0",
  "sources_url": "https://sho.rten.it/sources/#academic-tightening",
  "skill_name": "academic-tightening",
  "skill_description": "Cut academic wordiness while preserving technical meaning and data. Use for Research paragraphs, Thesis revisions, Journal word limits.",
  "agents_md_url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/academic-tightening/AGENTS.md",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "f/prompts.chat · 论文降重指南",
      "url": "https://github.com/f/prompts.chat/blob/f78a1c5136fa080155d928e0d7e2b4a41ddef03e/prompts.csv",
      "repository": "https://github.com/f/prompts.chat",
      "revision": "f78a1c5136fa080155d928e0d7e2b4a41ddef03e",
      "path": "prompts.csv",
      "license": "CC0-1.0",
      "license_url": "https://github.com/f/prompts.chat/blob/f78a1c5136fa080155d928e0d7e2b4a41ddef03e/LICENSE-CC0",
      "license_file": "licenses/f--prompts.chat.txt",
      "copyright": "CC0 prompt data has no required attribution notice; original contributor names are retained voluntarily.",
      "repository_stars": 169919,
      "checked_at": "2026-09-10",
      "license_scope": "Repository LICENSE explicitly places prompts.csv, PROMPTS.md, and user-submitted prompt text under CC0 1.0. The separate MIT license applies to code, which is not reused here.",
      "adaptation": "Preserves source focus on redundant phrases, complex sentences, scholarly tone, unchanged technical content/data, and examples of concise alternatives. Adds explicit citation, uncertainty, and causal-claim safeguards; turns advice into a revision plus optional brief teaching examples.",
      "author": "Zly1hyj",
      "record": "论文降重指南",
      "license_scope_file": "licenses/prompts-chat-scope.txt"
    }
  ],
  "instructions": "Edit the supplied academic passage to reduce wordiness while preserving its scholarly tone, structure, and rigor. Find redundant phrases, repeated claims, and needlessly complex sentences. Replace them with shorter, grammatically correct alternatives.\n\nKeep technical content, data, equations, citations, and terminology unchanged. Preserve the distinction between observation, interpretation, and speculation. Do not strengthen a claim, remove a limitation, or turn correlation into causation to save words.\n\nReturn the revised passage, then up to three brief examples of useful changes in the form \"original → revision.\" Prefer changes that the writer can reuse elsewhere. If the user requests only the revision, omit the examples. Check that every substantive claim and qualification survives.",
  "example": {
    "context": "Fictional observational building-energy study; includes reusable edit notes",
    "before": "It is important to note that, in the sample consisting of 64 municipal buildings, buildings with external shading had 12% lower mean summer electricity use than buildings without shading (Park et al., 2024). This observation is consistent with the possibility that external shading reduces cooling demand. However, because the study was observational in its design and did not record differences in cooling equipment, it is not possible to establish a causal effect. The findings should therefore not be interpreted as an estimate of savings for an individual building.",
    "after": "In the sample of 64 municipal buildings, buildings with external shading had 12% lower mean summer electricity use than buildings without shading (Park et al., 2024). This observation suggests that external shading may reduce cooling demand. However, the observational design and unrecorded differences in cooling equipment prevent causal conclusions. The findings do not estimate savings for individual buildings.\n\n“sample consisting of” → “sample of”\n“observational in its design” → “observational design”",
    "must_preserve": [
      "64 municipal buildings; external shading; 12% lower mean summer electricity use",
      "Citation (Park et al., 2024)",
      "Observation versus possible explanation",
      "Observational design and unrecorded cooling equipment prevent causal conclusions",
      "No individual-building savings estimate",
      "Revised passage followed by up to three reusable edits"
    ],
    "omitted": [
      "Removes academic throat-clearing and repeated qualifications without changing the technical terms or claim strength."
    ],
    "kind": "illustrative"
  }
}