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name: dialogue-trim
description: "Tighten supplied dialogue while preserving speakers, intent, and meaningful hesitation. Use for Interview edits, Script tightening, Conversation excerpts."
license: MIT
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Shorten the supplied dialogue while keeping it in dialogue form. Preserve speaker labels, the order needed to follow the exchange, and each speaker's distinct intent and tone. Use this for an edited conversation or script, not meeting minutes or an exact transcript.

Remove empty starts, repeated wording, redundant acknowledgements, and exchanges that repeat an established point. Keep hesitation, interruption, or repetition when it signals uncertainty, disagreement, reluctance, or a change of mind. Preserve factual details, qualifications, questions, refusals, consent, and the difference between an offer and a commitment.

Do not merge different speakers' statements or supply a reply no one gave. Do not make a cautious speaker sound certain, cooperative, or dismissive merely to save words. If exact quotations are required, select intact excerpts instead of silently rewriting them. Otherwise label the result as edited dialogue. Return only that label and the shortened exchange, without analysis of the speakers.